NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Installation
- Policy configuration
- Notes on policies
- Configuring a policy
- Backup Selections tab options when configuring a policy
- Off-host backup configuration options
- Selecting the snapshot method
- Configuring backup scripts
- About using alternate client backup
- Configuring alternate client backup
- Policy configuration tips
- About disabling snapshots
- NAS snapshot configuration
- About NAS snapshot overview
- Dynamic data streaming for D-NAS workloads
- Prerequisites for NetBackup DNAS configuration
- Configuring dynamic data streaming with backup host pool
- Configuring a backup host pool
- Discover plugins
- Minimum supported backup host versions for different features
- Limitations and considerations
- Setting up a NAS-Data-Protection policy
- FlashBackup configuration
- Instant Recovery configuration
- About Instant Recovery capabilities
- Instant Recovery requirements
- Instant Recovery restrictions
- Giving full server privileges to the media server
- About Instant Recovery
- Configuring a policy for Instant Recovery
- About sizing the cache for Instant Recovery copy-on-write snapshots
- Instant Recovery for databases
- About storage lifecycle policies for snapshots
- Configuration of software-based snapshot methods
- Support for Cluster Volume Manager Environments (CVM)
- Configuration of snapshot methods for disk arrays
- OS-specific configuration tasks
- About IBM DS6000 and DS8000 arrays
- IBM DS6000 and DS8000 software requirements
- Preconfiguration for IBM arrays
- Configuring NetBackup to access the IBM DS6000 or DS8000 array
- Configuring the IBM array for NetBackup
- Using DSCLI commands to obtain unique IBM identifiers
- Configuring a NetBackup policy for IBM_DiskStorage_FlashCopy
- For further reference on IBM arrays
- About IBM DS4000 array
- About Hitachi SMS/WMS/AMS, USP/NSC, USP-V/VM
- Hitachi array software requirements
- Preconfiguration for Hitachi
- About communication between NetBackup and the Hitachi array
- Determining if the Hitachi command devices are visible
- About configuring the Hitachi array for NetBackup
- Obtaining the Hitachi array serial number and the unique device identifiers
- Configuring a NetBackup policy for Hitachi_ShadowImage or Hitachi_CopyOnWrite
- About HP-XP arrays
- HP-XP array software requirements
- Preconfiguration for HP-XP
- About communication between NetBackup and the HP-XP array
- Determining if the HP-XP command devices are visible
- About configuring the HP-XP array for NetBackup
- Obtaining the array serial number and unique HP-XP identifiers
- Configuring a NetBackup policy for HP_XP_BusinessCopy and HP_XP_Snapshot
- About array troubleshooting
- Notes on Media Server and Third-Party Copy methods
- Disk requirements for Media Server and Third-Party Copy methods
- Directives for Media Server and Third-Party Copy methods
- Storage units for Media Server and Third-Party Copy methods
- Preventing multiplexing on a third-party copy backup
- Raw partition backups
- Increasing the client read timeout for all clients
- Further information on off-host data mover backups
- Backup and restore procedures
- Snapshot management
- Troubleshooting
- About gathering information and checking logs
- Logging directories for UNIX platforms
- Logging folders for Windows platforms
- Customer support contact information
- Latest patches and updates
- Snapshot provider information
- Important notes on &newProductName;
- &newProductName; installation problems
- FlashBackup and status code 13
- Single file restore from a FlashBackup Instant Recovery snapshot of a file protected by Windows VSS writer fails
- Identifying and removing a left-over snapshot
- Removing a VxVM volume clone
- Alternate client restore and backup from a snapshot fails
- Restore from a snapshot fails with status 2800
- Raw Partition restore fails with the message 'FlashBackup-Windows policy restore error'
- Snapshot creation fails with error 156
- Snapshot fails with error 20
- Restore from a snapshot fails with status 133
- Backup from snapshot fails with error 50
- Backup from snapshot parent job fails with error 4213: Snapshot import failed
- Snapshot job fails and the snapshot command does not recognize the volume name
- Snapshot creation fails with error 4220
- Snapshot creation fails when the same volume is mounted on multiple mount points of the same host
- Snapshot-based backup and restore failure
- Multiple snapshot jobs fail with code 156 or 1541.
- FlashBackup policy fails, with multiple backup selections [Cache =]
- Partial backup failure with 'Snapshot encountered error 156'
- Backup of file system validation fails with error 223
- Policy validation fails if the specified CIFS share path contains a forward slash
- Policy validation fails with status code 223
- An NDMP snapshot policy for wildcard backup fails with error 4201
- Troubleshooting with bpfis log
- Limitations of using HP-UX 11.31
- While configuring a policy for snapshot operations, the NetBackup Administration Console hangs
- Accelerator enabled incremental backup of NetApp NAS volume
- Snapshot method: Auto
- Appendix A. Managing nbu_snap (Solaris)
- Appendix B. Overview of snapshot operations
- Index
Configuring a NetBackup policy for Hitachi_ShadowImage or Hitachi_CopyOnWrite
For general help setting up a NetBackup policy in the NetBackup Administration Console, refer to the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.
The following procedure focuses on the Hitachi_ShadowImage and Hitachi_CopyOnWrite methods and their parameters.
Note:
The term "clone LUNs," as used in this procedure, refers to the Hitachi_ShadowImage method. For the Hitachi_CopyOnWrite method, the term "clone LUNs" can be replaced with "snapshot LUNs."
To configure a NetBackup policy for Hitachi_ShadowImage or Hitachi_CopyOnWrite
- In the NetBackup Administration Console, click the Perform snapshot backups box on the policy Attributes tab.
- Click the Options option to display the Snapshot Options dialog box.
- In the Snapshot method pull-down list, select Hitachi_ShadowImage or Hitachi_CopyOnWrite.
- In the Snapshot Resources pane, click Add.
NetBackup uses the information in the Snapshot Resources pane to correctly rotate through the designated LUNs when performing a ShadowImage (or CopyOnWrite) backup. After all clone LUNs have been used in a backup, NetBackup automatically determines which clone is the oldest. NetBackup expires the oldest clone so that it can be reused for the current backup. If that clone represents the only backup image copy, NetBackup also expires the backup image associated with the clone.
Note that the policy's Backup Selections list must specify one or more source LUNs for which snapshots are created for the backup. For each source LUN in the policy Backup Selections list, you must supply a serial number and unique IDs.
Note:
If the snapshot resources specified in the Snapshot Resources pane do not match with the LUN IDs specified through the backup selection entries then the NetBackup Hitachi storage array plug-in will discover the available target device and use it for snapshot.
See Obtaining the Hitachi array serial number and the unique device identifiers.
- In the Add Snapshot Resource dialog box, enter the array's serial number in the Array Serial # field.
- Enter the unique ID for the source LUN in the Source Device field.
The ID must be entered without leading zeroes. For example, if the LUN ID is 0110, enter 110 in the Source Device field.
- Enter the unique IDs for the clone LUNs (for Hitachi_ShadowImage method) or the snapshot LUNs (for Hitachi_CopyOnWrite) in the Snapshot Device(s) field. To enter multiple IDs, place a semicolon between them.
The ID must be without leading zeroes. For example, if the LUN ID is 0111, enter 111 in the Snapshot Device(s) field.
Note the following:
The LUNs must be unmasked to the client (or alternate client) before you start a backup.
For Instant Recovery backups, the Snapshot Device(s) entries determine where and in what order the snapshots are retained.
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