Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
- Section I. About NetBackup
- Section II. Configuring hosts
- Configuring Host Properties
- About the NetBackup Host Properties
- Access Control properties
- Bandwidth properties
- Busy File Settings properties
- Client Attributes properties
- Client Settings properties for UNIX clients
- Client Settings properties for Windows clients
- Data Classification properties
- Default Job Priorities properties
- Encryption properties
- Exchange properties
- Exclude Lists properties
- Fibre Transport properties
- Firewall properties
- General Server properties
- Global Attributes properties
- Logging properties
- Login Banner Configuration properties
- Media properties
- Network Settings properties
- Port Ranges properties
- Preferred Network properties
- Resilient Network properties
- Restore Failover properties
- Retention Periods properties
- Scalable Storage properties
- Servers properties
- SharePoint properties
- SLP Parameters properties
- Throttle Bandwidth properties
- Universal Settings properties
- User Account Settings properties
- Configuration options for NetBackup servers
- ECA_CERT_PATH for NetBackup servers and clients
- PREFERRED_NETWORK option for NetBackup servers
- THROTTLE_BANDWIDTH option for NetBackup servers
- Configuration options for NetBackup clients
- IGNORE_XATTR option for NetBackup clients
- VXSS_NETWORK option for NetBackup clients
- Configuring server groups
- Enabling support for NAT clients in NetBackup
- Configuring host credentials
- Managing media servers
- Configuring Host Properties
- Section III. Configuring storage
- Configuring disk storage
- Configuring robots and tape drives
- About configuring robots and tape drives in NetBackup
- Adding a robot to NetBackup manually
- Managing robots
- Adding a tape drive to NetBackup manually
- Adding a tape drive path
- Correlating tape drives and device files on UNIX hosts
- Managing tape drives
- Performing device diagnostics
- Configuring tape media
- About NetBackup volume pools
- About WORM media
- About adding volumes
- Configuring media settings
- Media settings options
- Media type (new media setting)
- Media settings options
- About barcodes
- Configuring barcode rules
- Configuring media ID generation rules
- Adding volumes by using the Actions menu
- Configuring media type mappings
- Managing volumes
- About exchanging a volume
- About frozen media
- About injecting and ejecting volumes
- About rescanning and updating barcodes
- About labeling NetBackup volumes
- About moving volumes
- About recycling a volume
- Managing volume pools
- Managing volume groups
- Inventorying robots
- About showing a robot's contents
- About updating the NetBackup volume configuration
- About the vmphyinv physical inventory utility
- Configuring storage units
- About the Storage utility
- Creating a storage unit
- About storage unit settings
- Absolute pathname to directory or absolute pathname to volume setting for storage units
- Maximum concurrent jobs storage unit setting
- Staging backups
- Creating a basic disk staging storage unit
- Configuring storage unit groups
- Section IV. Configuring storage lifecycle policies (SLPs)
- Configuring storage lifecycle policies
- Storage operations
- Index From Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Retention types for SLP operations
- Capacity managed retention type for SLP operations
- Storage lifecycle policy options
- Using a storage lifecycle policy to create multiple copies
- Storage lifecycle policy versions
- Section V. Configuring backups
- Creating backup policies
- Planning for policies
- Policy Attributes tab
- Policy storage (policy attribute)
- Policy volume pool (policy attribute)
- Take checkpoints every __ minutes (policy attribute)
- Backup Network Drives (policy attribute)
- Cross mount points (policy attribute)
- Encryption (policy attribute)
- Collect true image restore information (policy attribute) with and without move detection
- Use Accelerator (policy attribute)
- Enable optimized backup of Windows deduplicated volumes
- Use Replication Director (policy attributes)
- Schedule Attributes tab
- Type of backup (schedule attribute)
- Frequency (schedule attribute)
- Multiple copies (schedule attribute)
- Retention (schedule attribute)
- Media multiplexing (schedule attribute)
- Start Window tab
- Include Dates tab
- How open schedules affect calendar-based and frequency-based schedules
- About the Clients tab
- Backup Selections tab
- Adding backup selections to a policy
- Verifying the Backup Selections list
- Pathname rules for UNIX client backups
- About the directives on the Backup Selections list
- ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive
- Files that are excluded from backups by default
- Disaster Recovery tab
- Active Directory granular backups and recovery
- Synthetic backups
- Using the multiple copy synthetic backups method
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- Parts of the NetBackup catalog
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- Archiving the catalog and restoring from the catalog archive
- Estimating catalog space requirements
- About the NetBackup relational database
- About the NetBackup relational database (NBDB) installation
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on Windows
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on UNIX
- Post-installation tasks
- About backup and recovery procedures
- Managing backup images
- Creating backup policies
- Section VI. Deployment Management
- Deployment Management
- Adding or changing schedules in a deployment policy
- Deployment Management
- Section VII. Configuring replication
- About NetBackup replication
- About NetBackup Auto Image Replication
- Viewing the replication topology for Auto Image Replication
- About the storage lifecycle policies required for Auto Image Replication
- Removing or replacing replication relationships in an Auto Image Replication configuration
- About NetBackup replication
- Section VIII. Monitoring and reporting
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- About the Jobs tab
- About the Daemons tab
- About the Processes tab
- About the Drives tab
- About the jobs database
- About pending requests and actions
- Reporting in NetBackup
- Using the Logging Assistant
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Section IX. Administering NetBackup
- Management topics
- Accessing a remote server
- Using the NetBackup Remote Administration Console
- Run-time configuration options for the NetBackup Administration Console
- About improving NetBackup performance
- About adjusting time zones in the NetBackup Administration console
- Alternate server restores
- About performing alternate server restores
- Managing client backups and restores
- About client-redirected restores
- Powering down and rebooting NetBackup servers
- About Granular Recovery Technology
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2012, 2012 R2, or 2016
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2008 and 2008 R2
Adding, changing, or deleting clients in a policy
A client must be included in the list of at least one active backup policy to be backed up. Use the following procedures to add, change, or delete clients in an existing NetBackup policy.
To add, change, or delete a client in a policy
- In the NetBackup Administration Console, expand NetBackup Management > Policies.
- Open the policy that you want to change.
- Select the Clients tab and perform one of the following actions:
To add a new client
Continue to step 4.
To change an existing client
Double-click on the client that you want to change or select the client and click Change. The Change Client dialog box appears.
Click OK to accept the change and close the Change Client dialog box. Or, click Cancel to close the dialog box without saving the changes.
To delete a client
Select a client and click Delete. Hold down Shift to select multiple clients. A confirmation dialog box appears that lists the clients to be deleted. Click Yes to delete the clients or No to escape the dialog box.
- To add a new client, click New. The Add Client dialog box appears.
In the Add Client dialog box, enter the host name that you want to add. Or click the Browse for Computer button, select the host from the network tree, and click OK.
Note:
The Browse for clients and the Detect client operating system options are unavailable for a BigData policy type. To add a client using the BigData policy, enter the name of the client, manually.
Observe the following rules for assigning client names:
Use a name by which the server knows the client (one that you can use on the server to ping or telnet to the client).
Note:
To add a client for a Nutanix Acropolis Cluster, enter the display name of the virtual machine. The display name of a virtual machine is case-sensitive.
To add a client for a Hadoop cluster, enter the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the Hadoop cluster or namenode.
To add a client to backup universal share data, enter the host name of the client where the universal share is mounted.
If the client is in multiple policies, use the same name in each policy.
If the network configuration has multiple domains, use a more qualified name. For example, use client1.null.com or client1. null rather than only client1.
Add only clients with the hardware and the operating systems that this policy supports. For example, do not add a UNIX client to an MS-Windows policy. If you add a client to more than one policy, designate the same hardware and operating system in each of the policies.
If the hardware and the operating system you want is not in the list, associated client software is not installed on the server. Check the /usr/openv/netbackup/client directory for the directories and software that corresponds to the client you want to install. If the directories or software are not there, rerun the installation script on the server and select the option to install client software.
Do not use an IP address as a client name in a policy or the backup may fail. Specify a host name instead.
- You can either select the Detect client operating system check box or select the appropriate hardware and operating system for the client in the drop-down menu.
- Perform one of the following:
Click Add to add the client to the list and leave the dialog box open to add another client.
Click OK to add the client to the list and close the dialog box.
Click Cancel to close the dialog box without adding the client.
- When you are finished in the Clients tab:
Click OK to close and save the policy.
Click Cancel to close the policy without saving any additions or changes.