Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Administrator's Guide
- Overview
- About NetBackup appliances
- About the Primary Server role
- About the media server role
- About accessing the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- About the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- About appliance console components
- About the NetBackup Appliance Web Console login page
- NetBackup appliance home page
- Common tasks in NetBackup appliance
- About the NetBackup appliance documentation
- Monitoring the NetBackup appliance
- About monitoring the NetBackup appliance
- About hardware monitoring and alerts
- About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup appliance
- Managing a NetBackup appliance from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- About the Manage views
- About storage configuration
- Manage > Storage
- Manage > Storage > Shares
- About Universal shares migration
- Checking partition details
- Resizing a partition
- Resize dialog
- Troubleshooting resize-related issues
- Moving a partition
- Move dialog
- Moving the MSDP partition from a base disk to an expansion disk for optimum performance
- Scanning storage devices from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- Adding the storage space from a newly available disk
- Removing an existing storage disk
- Monitoring the progress of storage manipulation tasks
- Scanning storage devices using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- About Copilot functionality and Share management
- About viewing storage space information using the Show command
- About storage email alerts
- About appliance supported tape devices
- About configuring Host parameters for your appliance
- Manage > Appliance Restore
- Manage > License
- About the Migration Utility
- Software release updates for NetBackup Appliances
- About installing EEBs
- About installing NetBackup Administration Console and client software
- Manage > Additional Servers
- Manage > File Manager
- Manage > High Availability
- Managing NetBackup appliance using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- Expanding the bandwidth on the NetBackup appliance
- About configuring the maximum transmission unit size
- About OpenStorage plugin installation
- About mounting a remote NFS
- About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
- About NetBackup administrator capabilities
- Running NetBackup commands from the NetBackup appliance
- Creating a NetBackup touch file from the NetBackup appliance
- About NetBackup operating system commands
- Best practices for running NetBackup commands from the NetBackup appliance
- Known limitations of running NetBackup commands from the NetBackup appliance
- Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
- Deleting NetBackup administrator user accounts
- Viewing NetBackup administrator user accounts
- About NetBackup administrator capabilities
- About Auto Image Replication between appliances
- About forwarding logs to an external server
- About high availability configuration
- About data erasure
- Understanding the NetBackup appliance settings
- About modifying the appliance settings
- Settings > Notifications
- Settings > Network
- Settings > Date and Time
- Settings > Authentication
- About configuring user authentication
- About authorizing NetBackup appliance users
- Settings > Authentication
- Settings > Authentication > LDAP
- Adding an LDAP server configuration
- Importing an LDAP server configuration
- Setting the SSL certification
- Exporting an LDAP configuration
- Unconfiguring LDAP user authentication
- Enabling the LDAP server configuration
- Disabling the LDAP server configuration
- Deleting LDAP configuration parameters
- Adding LDAP configuration parameters
- Adding an LDAP attribute mapping
- Deleting an LDAP attribute mapping
- Settings > Authentication > Active Directory
- Settings > Authentication > User Management
- Settings > Password Management
- Troubleshooting
- Deduplication pool catalog backup and recovery
- Index
Manage > Host > Data Buffer options
You can configure the parameters for the data buffer shared with NetBackup using the Manage > Host > Data Buffer tab in the appliance NetBackup Appliance Web Console. The Data Buffer Parameters tab enables you to enter the count and size of the following data buffer storage:
Data buffer tapes
Data buffer on disks
Data buffer using Fibre Transport
Data buffer restore
Data buffer for NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol)
Data buffer for multiple copies
The following data buffer parameters can be updated using the appliance NetBackup Appliance Web Console:
Table: Data Buffer parameters
Fields | Description for the Count field |
|---|---|
Data buffer tapes - Count | Enter the total number of shared data buffer tapes used by NetBackup. The default value is 30. |
Data buffer tapes - Size | Enter the size of each shared data buffer tape in Bytes. The default value is 262144 Bytes. |
Data buffer on disks - Count | Enter the number of shared data buffer disks used by NetBackup. The default value is 30. |
Data buffer on disks - Size | Enter the size of each shared data buffer disks in Bytes. The default value is 262144 Bytes. |
Data buffer FT - Count | Enter the number of shared data buffer FT storage used by NetBackup. The default value is 16. |
Data buffer FT - Size | Enter the size of each shared data buffer FT storage in Bytes. The default value is 262144 Bytes. |
Data buffer restore - Count | Enter the number of shared data buffer restore storage used by NetBackup. The default value is 30. |
Data buffer NDMP - size | Enter the size of each shared data buffer NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol) storage in Bytes. The default value is 262144 Bytes. |
Data buffer multiple copies - Size | Enter the size of each shared data buffer storage restored in Bytes. The default value is 262144 Bytes. |
You can view and change the data buffer parameters using this tab.