Symantec NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume IUNIX and Linux

Release 7.5

21220071

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Technical Support ............................................................................................... 4

Section 1Chapter 1

About NetBackup

....................................................... 33

Introducing NetBackup interfaces ................................... 35About NetBackup ......................................................................... NetBackup documentation ............................................................. About NetBackup administration interfaces ...................................... Starting the Java-based Windows Display Console ........................ About setting up the NetBackup Administration Console ............... Administering remote servers and servers of different versions ......................................................................... About using the NetBackup Administration Console ........................... Standard and user toolbars ...................................................... About customizing the NetBackup Administration Console ............ NetBackup configuration wizards ................................................... About the Backup, Archive, and Restore utility .................................. Activity Monitor utility ................................................................. NetBackup Management utilities .................................................... Media and Device Management utilities ........................................... Running the Troubleshooter .......................................................... Access Management utility ............................................................ 35 37 37 39 40 43 44 46 46 47 48 49 49 51 51 52

Chapter 2

Administering NetBackup licenses .................................. 53About administering NetBackup licenses .......................................... Accessing license keys for a NetBackup server ............................. Adding new license keys .......................................................... Printing license key lists .......................................................... Deleting license keys .............................................................. Viewing license key properties ................................................. Exporting license keys ............................................................ Starting the NetBackup license key utility .................................. 53 54 55 56 56 57 57 57

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Configuring hosts ........................................................ 59Configuring Host Properties ............................................. 61About the NetBackup Host Properties .............................................. 63 Viewing host properties .......................................................... 65 Changing the host properties on multiple hosts at the same time ............................................................................... 66 Property states for multiple hosts ............................................. 67 Exporting host properties ........................................................ 69 Standard host property dialog box options .................................. 69 Access Control properties .............................................................. 69 Authentication Domain tab ...................................................... 70 Authorization Service tab ........................................................ 72 Network Attributes tab ............................................................ 73 Active Directory host properties ..................................................... 75 Backup Exec Tape Reader properties ............................................... 77 Bandwidth properties ................................................................... 79 Bandwidth limit usage considerations and restrictions .................. 80 Add Bandwidth Settings dialog box for Bandwidth properties ....................................................................... 81 Busy File Settings properties .......................................................... 81 Activating the Busy File Settings in host properties ...................... 82 Clean-up properties ...................................................................... 83 Client Name properties ................................................................. 86 Client Attributes properties ........................................................... 87 Add Client dialog box .............................................................. 89 General tab of the Client Attributes properties ............................ 89 Connect Options tab of the Client Attributes properties ................. 94 Windows Open File Backup tab of the Client Attributes properties ....................................................................... 96 Back-level and upgraded clients that use Windows Open File Backup ......................................................................... 100 Client Settings properties for NetWare clients ................................. 101 Client Settings (UNIX) properties .................................................. 102 VxFS file change log for incremental backups property ............... 104 Client Settings properties for Windows clients ................................. 106 How to determine if change journal support is useful in your NetBackup environment .................................................. 110 Guidelines for enabling NetBackup change journal support .......... 111 Cloud Storage properties ............................................................. 111 Credential Access properties ........................................................ 115 Data Classification properties ....................................................... 116

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Creating a Data Classification ................................................. Default Job Priorities properties .................................................... Understanding the Job Priority setting ..................................... Distributed application restore mapping properties ......................... Encryption properties ................................................................. Enterprise Vault properties .......................................................... Enterprise Vault Hosts properties .................................................. Exchange properties ................................................................... Exclude Lists properties ............................................................... About the Add to exclude list and Add to exceptions list dialog boxes ........................................................................... Syntax rules for exclude lists .................................................. Traversing excluded directories .............................................. Fibre Transport properties ........................................................... Firewall properties ..................................................................... Enabling logging for vnetd ..................................................... General Server properties ............................................................ Forcing restores to use a specific server .................................... Global Attributes properties ......................................................... About constraints on the number of concurrent jobs ................... Setting up email notifications about backups ............................. Sending email notifications to the administrator about unsuccessful backups ...................................................... Sending messages to the global administrator about unsuccessful backups ........................................................................ Sending messages to the administrator about successful and unsuccessful backups ...................................................... Logging properties ...................................................................... Login Banner Configuration properties ........................................... Removing login banner screen and text .................................... Enabling the Auto log off timeout option .................................. Lotus Notes properties ................................................................ Media properties ........................................................................ Results when media overwrites are not permitted ...................... Recommended use for Enable SCSI reserve property ................... NDMP Global Credentials properties .............................................. NetWare Client properties ............................................................ Network properties ..................................................................... Network Settings Properties ......................................................... Reverse Host Name Lookup property ....................................... IP Address Family Support property ........................................ Port Ranges properties ................................................................ Registered ports and dynamically-allocated ports .......................

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Preferred Network properties ....................................................... Add or Change Preferred Network Settings dialog box ................. How NetBackup uses the directives to determine which network to use ........................................................................... Configurations to use IPv6 networks ........................................ Configurations to use IPv4 networks ........................................ Order of directive processing in the Preferred Network properties ..................................................................... Order of directives can affect processing .................................. bptestnetconn utility to display Preferred Network information ................................................................... Configuration to prohibit using a specified address ..................... Configuration that uses the same specification for both the network and the interfaceless constrictive ........................ Configuration that uses the same specification for both the network and the interfacemore constrictive ...................... Configuration that limits the addresses, but allows any interfaces ...................................................................... Resilient Network properties ........................................................ Resilient connection resource usage ........................................ Specifying resilient connections .............................................. Resource Limit properties ............................................................ Restore Failover properties .......................................................... Assigning an alternate media server as a failover restore server ........................................................................... Retention Periods properties ........................................................ Changing a retention period ................................................... Determining retention periods for volumes ............................... Retention Periods with end dates beyond 2038, excluding Infinity ......................................................................... Servers properties ...................................................................... Adding a server to a servers list .............................................. Removing a server from a server list ........................................ Switching to another master server in the Servers properties dialog box ..................................................................... About sharing one Enterprise Media Manager (EMM) database across multiple master servers .......................................... SharedDisk properties ................................................................. SharePoint properties ................................................................. Consistency check options for SharePoint Server ....................... Symantec Products properties ...................................................... Throttle Bandwidth properties ......................................................

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Add Bandwidth Settings dialog box for Throttle Bandwidth properties ..................................................................... Timeouts properties .................................................................... Universal Settings properties ....................................................... Logging the status of a redirected restore ................................. UNIX Client properties ................................................................ UNIX Server properties ............................................................... VMware Access Hosts properties ................................................... VSP (Volume Snapshot Provider) properties .................................... Windows Client properties ........................................................... About bp.conf entries .................................................................. About the bp.conf entries for servers ............................................. ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ......................................................................... ALLOW_NON_RESERVED_PORTS bp.conf entry for UNIX servers and clients .................................................................... AUTHENTICATION_DOMAIN bp.conf entry for UNIX servers and clients .................................................................... AUTHORIZATION_SERVICE bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ......................................................................... AUTO_ADD_ALL_ALIASES_FOR_CLIENT ................................. BPBRM_VERBOSE bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ...................... BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS bp.conf entries for UNIX servers ................ BPDBM_VERBOSE bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ...................... BPRD_VERBOSE bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ........................ BPTM_VERBOSE bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ........................ BPEND_TIMEOUT bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ...................... BPSTART_TIMEOUT bp.conf entry for UNIX servers .................. CHECK_RESTORE_CLIENT bp.conf entry for UNIX servers .......... CLIENT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ......................................................................... CLIENT_PORT_WINDOW bp.conf entry for UNIX servers and clients .......................................................................... CLIENT_READ_TIMEOUT bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ............ CLIENT_RESERVED_PORT_WINDOW bp.conf entry for UNIX servers and clients .......................................................... CONNECT_OPTIONS bp.conf entry for UNIX servers .................. DEFAULT_CONNECT_OPTIONS bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ......................................................................... DISABLE_JOB_LOGGING bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ............. DISABLE_STANDALONE_DRIVE_EXTENSIONS bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ............................................................

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DISALLOW_BACKUPS_SPANNING_MEDIA bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ................................................................. DISALLOW_CLIENT_LIST_RESTORE bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ......................................................................... DISALLOW_CLIENT_RESTORE bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ......................................................................... EMMSERVER bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ............................ ENABLE_ROBUST_LOGGING bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ......................................................................... FAILOVER_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVERS bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ......................................................................... FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ......................................................................... GENERATE_ENGLISH_LOGS bp.conf entry for UNIX servers and clients .......................................................................... INCOMPLETE_JOB_CLEAN_INTERVAL bp.conf entry for UNIX servers and clients .......................................................... INITIAL_BROWSE_SEARCH_LIMIT bp.conf entry for UNIX servers and clients .......................................................... IP_ADDRESS_FAMILY bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ................ JOB_PRIORITY bp.conf entry for UNIX servers and clients ........... LIMIT_BANDWIDTH bp.conf entry for UNIX servers .................. LIST_FS_IMAGE_HEADERS ................................................... MEDIA_ID_PREFIX bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ..................... MEDIA_UNMOUNT_DELAY bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ......... MEDIA_REQUEST_DELAY bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ........... MEDIA_SERVER bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ........................ MPX_RESTORE_DELAY bp.conf entry for UNIX servers .............. MUST_USE_LOCAL_DRIVE bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ......... NBRNTD_IDLE_TIMEOUT bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ........... PREFERRED_NETWORK bp.conf entry ..................................... RANDOM _PORTS bp.conf entry for UNIX servers and clients .......................................................................... RE_READ_INTERVAL bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ................. REQUIRED_NETWORK server configuration entry ..................... RESILIENT_NETWORK bp.conf entry for UNIX master servers and clients .................................................................... RESUME_ORIG_DUP_ON_OPT_DUP_FAIL bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ................................................................. REVERSE_NAME_LOOKUP bp.conf entry for UNIX servers and clients .......................................................................... SERVER bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ...................................

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SERVER_PORT_WINDOW bp.conf entry for UNIX servers and clients .......................................................................... SERVER_RESERVED_PORT_WINDOW bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ......................................................................... SKIP_RESTORE_TO_SYMLINK_DIR bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ......................................................................... SERVER_CONNECT_TIMEOUT bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ......................................................................... THROTTLE_BANDWIDTH bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ........... ULINK_ON_OVERWRITE bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ............. USE_VXSS bp.conf entry for UNIX servers and clients ................. VERBOSE bp.conf entry for UNIX servers and clients .................. VXSS_NETWORK bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ....................... bp.conf options for UNIX clients ................................................... BPARCHIVE_POLICY bp.conf entry for UNIX clients ................... BPARCHIVE_SCHED bp.conf entry for UNIX clients .................... BPBACKUP_POLICY bp.conf for UNIX clients ............................ BPBACKUP_SCHED bp.conf entry for UNIX clients ..................... BUSY_FILE_ACTION bp.conf entry for UNIX clients ................... BUSY_FILE_DIRECTORY bp.conf entry for UNIX clients .............. BUSY_FILE_NOTIFY_USER bp.conf entry for UNIX clients .......... BUSY_FILE_PROCESSING bp.conf entry for UNIX clients ............ CLIENT_NAME bp.conf entry .................................................. COMPRESS_SUFFIX bp.conf entry for UNIX clients .................... CRYPT_CIPHER bp.conf entry for UNIX clients .......................... CRYPT_KIND bp.conf entry for UNIX clients ............................. CRYPT_OPTION bp.conf entry for UNIX clients ......................... CRYPT_STRENGTH bp.conf entry for UNIX clients ..................... CRYPT_LIBPATH bp.conf entry for UNIX clients ........................ CRYPT_KEYFILE bp.conf entry for UNIX clients ......................... DISALLOW_SERVER_FILE_WRITES bp.conf entry for UNIX clients .......................................................................... DO_NOT_RESET_FILE_ACCESS_TIME bp.conf entry for UNIX clients .......................................................................... IGNORE_XATTR bp.conf entry for UNIX clients ......................... INFORMIX_HOME bp.conf entry for UNIX clients ....................... KEEP_DATABASE_COMM_FILE bp.conf entry for UNIX clients .......................................................................... KEEP_LOGS_DAYS bp.conf entry for UNIX clients ...................... LIST_FILES_TIMEOUT bp.conf entry for UNIX clients ................. LOCKED_FILE_ACTION bp.conf entry for UNIX clients ................ MEDIA_SERVER bp.conf entry for UNIX clients ......................... MEGABYTES_OF_MEMORY bp.conf entry for UNIX clients ..........

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NFS_ACCESS_TIMEOUT bp.conf entry for UNIX clients .............. RESTORE_RETRIES bp.conf entry for UNIX clients .................... SERVER bp.conf entry for UNIX clients .................................... SYBASE_HOME bp.conf entry for UNIX clients .......................... USE_CTIME_FOR_INCREMENTALS bp.conf entry for UNIX clients .......................................................................... USE_FILE_CHG_LOG bp.conf entry for UNIX clients ................... USEMAIL bp.conf entry for UNIX clients .................................. VXSS_NETWORK bp.conf entry for UNIX clients ........................ UNIX client examples ............................................................

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Chapter 4

Configuring server groups ............................................... 309About server groups .................................................................... Configuring a server group ........................................................... Server group properties ......................................................... Deleting a server group ............................................................... 309 310 312 312

Chapter 5 Chapter 6

Configuring host credentials ........................................... 313About configuring credentials ....................................................... 313

Managing media servers .................................................. 315Activating or deactivating a media server ....................................... Adding a media server ................................................................. About decommissioning a media server .......................................... About decommissioning limitations ......................................... Before you decommission a media server .................................. Post decommission recommendations ...................................... Decommission actions ........................................................... Previewing references to a media server ......................................... Decommissioning a media server .................................................. Registering a media server ........................................................... Deleting all devices from a media server ......................................... Removing a device host from the EMM database .............................. 315 316 317 318 319 319 320 323 324 326 326 328

Section 3Chapter 7

Configuring storage .................................................. 329Configuring robots and tape drives ............................... 331About NetBackup robot types ....................................................... 332 Device configuration prerequisites ................................................ 333 About the device mapping files ..................................................... 333

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Downloading the device mapping files ............................................ About configuring robots and tape drives ........................................ About device discovery ................................................................ About device serialization ...................................................... About adding devices without discovery ................................... About robot control .................................................................... Library sharing example ........................................................ Configuring robots and tape drives ................................................ Configuring robots and tape drives by using the wizard ............... Adding a robot ..................................................................... Robot configuration options ................................................... Adding a tape drive ............................................................... Adding a shared tape drive ..................................................... Tape drive configuration options ............................................. About drive name rules ......................................................... Configuring drive name rules ................................................. Adding a tape drive path ........................................................ Correlating tape drives and device files on UNIX hosts ................ Updating the device configuration by using the wizard ...................... Managing robots ........................................................................ Changing robot properties ..................................................... Configuring a robot to operate in manual mode .......................... Deleting a robot ................................................................... Moving a robot and its media to a new media server .................... Managing tape drives .................................................................. Changing a drive comment ..................................................... About downed drives ............................................................. Changing a drive operating mode ............................................ Changing a tape drive path ..................................................... Changing a drive path operating mode ..................................... Changing tape drive properties ............................................... Changing a tape drive to a shared drive .................................... Cleaning a tape drive from the Device Monitor ........................... Deleting a drive .................................................................... Resetting a drive .................................................................. Resetting the mount time ....................................................... Setting drive cleaning frequency ............................................. Viewing drive details ............................................................. Performing device diagnostics ...................................................... About device diagnostic tests .................................................. Running a robot diagnostic test ............................................... Running a tape drive diagnostic test ........................................

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Managing a diagnostic test step that requires operator intervention .................................................................. Obtaining detailed information for a diagnostic test step ............. Verifying the device configuration ................................................. About automatic path correction ................................................... Enabling automatic path correction ............................................... Replacing a device ...................................................................... Updating device firmware ............................................................ About the Media Manager device daemon ....................................... About external access to NetBackup controlled devices ............... Stopping and restarting the device daemon .....................................

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Chapter 8

Configuring tape media

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About tape volumes .................................................................... NetBackup media types ............................................................... Alternate NetBackup media types ............................................ About WORM media ................................................................... How to use WORM media in NetBackup .................................... About adding volumes ................................................................. About adding robotic volumes ................................................. About adding stand-alone volumes .......................................... Adding volumes by using the wizard .............................................. Adding volumes by using the Actions menu ..................................... Add volume properties .......................................................... Managing volumes ...................................................................... Changing the group of a volume .............................................. About rules for moving volumes between groups ........................ Changing the owner of a volume ............................................. Changing the pool of a volume ................................................ Changing volume properties ................................................... About assigning volumes ....................................................... About deassigning volumes .................................................... Deleting a volume ................................................................. Erasing a volume .................................................................. About exchanging a volume .................................................... About frozen media .............................................................. Freezing or unfreezing a volume ............................................. About injecting and ejecting volumes ....................................... Injecting volumes into robots ................................................. Ejecting volumes .................................................................. About rescanning and updating bar codes ................................. Rescanning and updating bar codes .........................................

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About labeling NetBackup volumes .......................................... Labeling a volume ................................................................. About moving volumes .......................................................... Moving volumes by using the robot inventory update option .......................................................................... Moving volumes by using the Actions menu .............................. About recycling a volume ....................................................... Suspending or unsuspending volumes ...................................... About volume pools .................................................................... About scratch volume pools .................................................... Adding a volume pool .................................................................. Volume pool properties ......................................................... Managing volume pools ............................................................... Changing the properties of a volume pool ................................. Deleting a volume pool .......................................................... About volume groups .................................................................. Managing volume groups ............................................................. Moving a volume group ......................................................... Deleting a volume group ........................................................ About media sharing ................................................................... Configuring unrestricted media sharing ......................................... Configuring media sharing with a server group ................................

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Chapter 9

Inventorying robots ........................................................... 419About robot inventory ................................................................. When to inventory a robot ........................................................... About showing a robot's contents .................................................. About inventory results for API robots ..................................... Showing the media in a robot ........................................................ About comparing a robot's contents with the volume configuration ....................................................................... Comparing media in a robot with the volume configuration ................ About updating the volume configuration ....................................... Volume update prerequisites .................................................. About previewing volume configuration changes ....................... Updating the volume configuration with a robot's contents ................ Robot inventory options .............................................................. Configuring media settings .......................................................... Media settings - existing media ............................................... Media settings - new media .................................................... About bar codes ......................................................................... About bar code advantages ..................................................... 420 421 423 424 426 427 428 429 430 431 431 433 434 435 437 441 442

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About bar code best practices ................................................. About bar code rules ............................................................. About media ID generation rules ............................................. Configuring bar code rules ........................................................... Bar code rules settings .......................................................... Configuring media ID generation rules ........................................... Media ID generation options ................................................... Configuring media type mappings ................................................. About adding media type mapping entries ................................ Default and allowable media types ........................................... About the vmphyinv physical inventory utility ................................ How vmphyinv performs a physical inventory ........................... Example volume configuration updates .......................................... Volume Configuration Example 1: Removing a volume from a robot ............................................................................ Volume Configuration Example 2: Adding existing stand-alone volumes to a robot .......................................................... Volume Configuration Example 3: Moving existing volumes within a robot ................................................................ Volume Configuration Example 4: Adding new volumes to a robot ............................................................................ Volume Configuration Example 5: Adding cleaning tapes to a robot ............................................................................ Volume Configuration Example 6: Moving existing volumes between robots .............................................................. Volume Configuration Example 7: Adding existing volumes when bar codes are not used .....................................................

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Chapter 10

Configuring disk storage .................................................. 479Configuring BasicDisk storage ...................................................... 479 About configuring disk pool storage ............................................... 479 About SharedDisk support in NetBackup 7.0 and later ....................... 480

Chapter 11

Configuring storage units ................................................ 483About the Storage utility .............................................................. Using the Storage utility ........................................................ Creating a storage unit ................................................................ Creating a storage unit by copying a storage unit ....................... Changing storage unit settings ................................................ Deleting storage units ........................................................... Media Manager storage unit considerations .............................. Disk storage unit considerations ............................................. 483 484 485 487 488 488 489 491

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NDMP storage unit considerations ........................................... About storage unit settings .......................................................... Absolute pathname to directory or absolute pathname to volume setting for storage units ................................................... Density storage unit setting ................................................... Disk pool storage unit setting ................................................. Disk type storage unit setting ................................................. Enable block sharing storage unit setting .................................. Enable multiplexing storage unit setting ................................... High water mark storage unit setting ....................................... Low water mark storage unit setting ........................................ Maximum concurrent write drives storage unit setting ................ Maximum concurrent jobs storage unit setting .......................... Maximum streams per drive storage unit setting ........................ Media server storage unit setting ............................................ NDMP host storage unit setting .............................................. On demand only storage unit setting ........................................ Only use the following media servers storage unit setting ............ Properties option in the Change Storage Units dialog box ............ Reduce fragment size storage unit setting ................................. Robot number storage unit setting ........................................... Robot type storage unit setting ............................................... Staging schedule option in Change Storage Units dialog .............. Storage device setting for storage units .................................... Storage unit name setting ...................................................... Storage unit type setting ........................................................ Enable temporary staging area storage unit setting .................... Transfer throttle storage unit setting ....................................... Use any available media server storage unit setting ....................

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Chapter 12

Staging backups

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About staging backups ................................................................ About the two staging methods ..................................................... About basic disk staging .............................................................. Creating a basic disk staging storage unit ........................................ Creating a schedule for a basic disk staging storage unit .............. Configuring multiple copies in a relocation schedule ......................... Disk staging storage unit size and capacity ...................................... Finding potential free space on a BasicDisk disk staging storage unit .................................................................................... Disk Staging Schedule dialog box .................................................. Basic disk staging limitations .......................................................

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Initiating a relocation schedule manually ....................................... 526

Chapter 13

Configuring storage unit groups .................................... 529About storage unit groups ............................................................ Creating storage unit groups for backups ........................................ Creating storage unit groups for snapshots ..................................... Deleting a storage unit group ........................................................ Storage unit selection criteria within a group .................................. Media server load balancing ................................................... Other load balancing methods ................................................ Exception to the storage unit selection criteria .......................... About disk spanning within storage unit groups ............................... 529 530 531 533 534 535 536 537 537

Chapter 14

Configuring storage lifecycle policies ........................... 539About storage lifecycle policies ..................................................... Creating a storage lifecycle policy .................................................. Storage lifecycle policy validation dialog box ............................. Storage lifecycle policy Validation Report tab ............................ Deleting a storage lifecycle policy .................................................. Storage Lifecycle Policy dialog box settings ..................................... Hierarchical view of storage operations in the Storage lifecycle policy dialog box ........................................................................... Creating a hierarchical operation list in an SLP .......................... Adding a non-hierarchical operation to an SLP .......................... Modifying the hierarchy of operations in an SLP ........................ Removing an operation from the storage operation list ............... Adding a storage operation to a storage lifecycle policy ..................... New or Change Storage Operation dialog box settings ................. Backup operation ................................................................. Backup From Snapshot operation ............................................ Duplication operation ........................................................... Import operation .................................................................. Index From Snapshot operation .............................................. Replication operation ............................................................ Snapshot operation ............................................................... Operation types in a storage lifecycle policy .............................. Retention types for storage lifecycle policy operations ................ Retention type mixing for storage operations ............................ About writing multiple copies using a storage lifecycle policy ............. How the order of the operations determines the copy order .......... About ensuring successful copies using lifecycles ....................... About storage lifecycle policy versions ........................................... 539 540 541 542 543 544 546 548 548 549 550 550 553 555 557 558 560 561 564 565 572 573 578 578 579 579 580

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Storage lifecycle changes and versioning .................................. When changes to storage lifecycle policies become effective ....................................................................... Deleting old storage lifecycle policy versions ............................. LIFECYCLE_PARAMETERS file for optional SLP-managed job configuration ....................................................................... About batch creation logic in Storage Lifecycle Manager .............. Lifecycle operation administration using the nbstlutil command .........

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Section 4Chapter 15

Configuring backups ................................................ 593Creating policies for backups and snapshots .............. 595About the Policies utility .............................................................. Using the Policies utility .............................................................. Planning for policies ................................................................... Example of one client in multiple policies ................................. Policy attributes that affect how clients are grouped in policies ......................................................................... About Microsoft DSFR backups ............................................... Creating a policy using the Policy Configuration Wizard .................... Creating a policy without using the Policy Configuration Wizard ........ Adding or changing schedules in a policy ........................................ Copying a policy to create a new policy ........................................... Copying a schedule into the same policy or different policy ................ Deleting schedules, backup selections, or clients from a policy ............ Policy Attributes tab ................................................................... Policy type (policy attribute) ................................................... Data classifications (policy attribute) ....................................... Policy storage (policy attribute) ............................................... Policy volume pool (policy attribute) ........................................ Take checkpoints every __ minutes (policy attribute) .................. Limit jobs per policy (policy attribute) ...................................... Job priority (policy attribute) .................................................. Media Owner (policy attribute) ................................................ Go into effect at (policy attribute) ............................................ Follow NFS (policy attribute) .................................................. Backup Network Drives (policy attribute) .................................. Cross mount points (policy attribute) ....................................... Compression (policy attribute) ................................................ Encryption (policy attribute) ................................................... Collect disaster recovery information for Bare Metal Restore (policy attribute) ............................................................ 596 596 598 601 602 603 606 607 608 608 609 609 610 611 615 615 618 620 624 625 626 626 627 628 630 633 635 636

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Collect true image restore information (policy attribute) with and without move detection ............................................. Allow multiple data streams (policy attribute) ............................ Disable client-side deduplication (policy attribute) ...................... Enable granular recovery (policy attribute) ............................... Use accelerator (policy attribute) ............................................. Keyword phrase (policy attribute) ............................................ Enable indexing for search (policy attribute) .............................. Snapshot Client (policy attributes) ........................................... Microsoft Exchange (policy attributes) ..................................... Schedules tab ............................................................................ Schedule Attributes tab ............................................................... Name (schedule attribute) ...................................................... Type of backup (schedule attribute) ......................................... Synthetic backup (schedule attribute) ...................................... Accelerator forced rescan (schedule attribute) ........................... Enable indexing for search (schedule attribute) .......................... Calendar (schedule attribute) .................................................. Frequency (schedule attribute) ................................................ Instant Recovery (schedule attribute) ....................................... Multiple copies (schedule attribute) ......................................... Override policy storage (schedule attribute) .............................. Override policy volume pool (schedule attribute) ........................ Override media owner (schedule attribute) ................................ Retention (schedule attribute) ................................................. Media multiplexing (schedule attribute) .................................... Start Window tab ....................................................................... Adding, changing, or deleting a time window in a schedule ........... Example of schedule duration ................................................. Excluding dates from a policy schedule ........................................... Calendar Schedule tab ................................................................. Scheduling by specific dates ................................................... Scheduling by recurring days of the week ................................. Scheduling by recurring days of the month ............................... How NetBackup determines which schedule to run next .................... About schedule windows that span midnight ................................... How open schedules affect calendar-based and frequency-based schedules ............................................................................ Creating an open schedule in the NetBackup Administration Console ........................................................................ Runtime considerations that affect backup frequency ................. About the Clients tab ................................................................... Adding or changing clients in a policy ......................................

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Installing client software on secure and trusting UNIX clients .......................................................................... Browse for Hyper-V virtual machines ....................................... Backup Selections tab .................................................................. Adding backup selections to a policy ........................................ Verifying the Backup Selections list ......................................... How to reduce backup time .................................................... Pathname rules for Windows client backups .............................. Pathname rules for Windows disk image (raw) backups ............... Pathname rules for Windows registry backups ........................... About hard links to files and directories ................................... Pathname rules for UNIX client backups ................................... Pathname rules for NetWare NonTarget clients ......................... Pathname rules for NetWare Target clients ............................... Pathname rules for the clients that run extension products .......... About the directives on the Backup Selections list ...................... Files that are excluded from backups by default ......................... About excluding files from automatic backups ........................... VMware Policy tab ...................................................................... Hyper-V Policies tab ................................................................... Disaster Recovery tab .................................................................. Adding policies to the Critical Policies list of a catalog backup policy ........................................................................... Creating a Vault policy ................................................................ Performing manual backups ......................................................... Active Directory granular backups and recovery .............................. System requirements for Active Directory granular NetBackup backups and recovery ...................................................... Creating a policy that allows Active Directory granular restores ........................................................................ Restoring Active Directory objects ........................................... Troubleshooting granular restore issues ...................................

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Synthetic backups ............................................................. 763About synthetic backups .............................................................. Recommendations for synthetic backups and restores ....................... Synthetic full backups ................................................................. Synthetic cumulative incremental backups ..................................... Schedules that must appear in a policy for synthetic backups ............. Adding clients to a policy for synthetic backups ............................... Change journal and synthesized backups ........................................ True image restore and synthesized backups ................................... 763 764 766 768 770 770 771 771

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Displaying synthetic backups in the Activity Monitor ........................ Logs produced during synthetic backups ......................................... Synthetic backups and directory and file attributes .......................... Using the multiple copy synthetic backups method ........................... Configuring multiple copy synthetic backups ............................ Configuration variables ......................................................... Configuration examples ......................................................... Optimized synthetic backups using OpenStorage ............................. Optimized synthetic backups for deduplication ................................

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Protecting the NetBackup catalog ................................. 779About the NetBackup catalog ........................................................ About the catalog upon upgrade to NetBackup 7.5 ............................ Using the cat_import and cat_export commands ........................ Parts of the NetBackup catalog ..................................................... About the NetBackup image database ....................................... About the NetBackup relational database .................................. Protecting the NetBackup catalog .................................................. About catalog backups ........................................................... Recovering the catalog ................................................................ Disaster recovery emails and the disaster recovery file ...................... Archiving the catalog .................................................................. Creating a catalog archiving policy .......................................... Catalog archiving commands .................................................. When to catalog archive ........................................................ Extracting images from the catalog archives ............................. Estimating catalog space requirements .......................................... NetBackup file size considerations ........................................... About the binary catalog format .............................................. Moving the image catalog ...................................................... About image catalog compression ............................................ 779 780 780 780 782 784 787 788 799 799 800 801 802 804 804 805 807 807 808 808

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About the NetBackup relational database ................... 813About the NetBackup relational database (NBDB) installation ............. About NetBackup master server installed directories and files ............................................................................. About the NetBackup configuration entry ................................. Sybase SQL Anywhere server management ............................... Sybase SQL Anywhere and clustered environments .................... Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility ....................... About the Select/Restart Database and Change Password menu options ......................................................................... 813 815 822 822 823 824 825

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About the Database Space and Memory Management menu options ......................................................................... About the Transaction Log Management menu options ............... About the Database Validation Check and Rebuild menu options ......................................................................... About the Move Database menu options ................................... About the Unload Database menu options ................................. About the Backup and Restore Database menu options ................ Post-installation tasks ................................................................. Changing the database password ............................................. Moving NBDB database files after installation ........................... Adding a mirrored transaction log ........................................... Creating the NBDB database manually ...................................... About backup and recovery procedures .......................................... Database transaction log ........................................................ About catalog recovery .......................................................... Commands for backing up and recovering the relational databases ...................................................................... About the catalog backup process ............................................ Unloading the NetBackup database ................................................ Terminating database connections ................................................ Moving the NetBackup database from one host to another .................

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Managing backup images ................................................ 847About the Catalog utility .............................................................. About searching for backup images ............................................... Verifying backup images .............................................................. Viewing job results ..................................................................... Promoting a copy to a primary copy ............................................... Duplicating backup images ........................................................... About multiplexed duplication considerations ........................... Jobs that appear while making multiple copies ........................... Expiring backup images ............................................................... About importing backup images .................................................... Importing backup images, Phase I ........................................... Importing backup images, Phase II .......................................... About importing expired images ............................................. About importing Backup Exec media ........................................ Differences between importing, browsing, and restoring Backup Exec and NetBackup images ............................................. 847 848 850 851 852 854 857 858 859 860 860 861 862 862 865

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Configuring replication .......................................... 869About NetBackup replication .......................................... 871About NetBackup replication ........................................................ About NetBackup Auto Image Replication ....................................... Auto Image Replication setup overview .................................... About the domain relationship ............................................... Configuring a target for MSDP replication ................................ About the replication topology for Auto Image Replication .......... Viewing the replication topology for Auto Image Replication .................................................................... About the storage lifecycle policies required for Auto Image Replication ................................................................... One-to-many Auto Image Replication model ............................. Cascading Auto Image Replication model .................................. How to resolve volume changes for Auto Image Replication ......... About restoring from a backup at a target master domain ............ Reporting on Auto Image Replication jobs ................................ About Replication Director ........................................................... 871 872 873 875 876 878 879 884 888 888 891 894 895 896

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Monitoring and reporting ...................................... 899Monitoring NetBackup activity ....................................... 901About the Activity Monitor .......................................................... Setting Activity Monitor options ................................................... About the Jobs tab ...................................................................... Viewing job details ................................................................ Showing or hiding column heads ............................................. Monitoring the detailed status of a selected job .......................... Deleting completed jobs ......................................................... Canceling a job that has not completed ..................................... Restarting a completed job ..................................................... Suspending restore or backup jobs ........................................... Resuming suspended or incomplete jobs ................................... Printing job list information ................................................... Exporting Activity Monitor data to a text file ............................. Changing the Job Priority dynamically from the Activity Monitor ........................................................................ About the Daemons tab ............................................................... Using the nbrbutil utility to configure the NetBackup Resource Broker .......................................................................... 901 902 904 906 906 906 907 907 907 908 908 908 909 909 910 913

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Types of NetBackup daemons ................................................. Monitoring NetBackup daemons ............................................. Starting or stopping a daemon ................................................ About the Processes tab ............................................................... Monitoring NetBackup processes in the Process Details dialog box .............................................................................. About the jobs database ............................................................... About changing the default values ........................................... About the BPDBJOBS_OPTIONS environment variable ................ bpdbjobs command line options .............................................. Enabling the bpdbjobs debug log ............................................. Customizing bpdbjobs output ................................................. About the Device Monitor ............................................................ About media mount errors ........................................................... About pending requests and actions ............................................... About pending requests for storage units .................................. Managing pending requests and actions ......................................... Resolving a pending request ................................................... Resolving a pending action ..................................................... Resubmitting a request .......................................................... Denying a request .................................................................

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Auditing NetBackup operations ..................................... 933About NetBackup auditing ........................................................... Viewing the current audit settings ................................................. Configuring auditing on a NetBackup master server .......................... Audit alert notification for audit failures ........................................ User identity in the audit report .................................................... Auditing host property changes .................................................... Using the command line -reason or -r option ................................... Viewing the audit report .............................................................. nbaudit log behavior ................................................................... Retaining and backing up audit trail records .................................... 933 936 937 938 939 940 940 941 945 945

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Reporting in NetBackup ................................................... 947About the Reports utility ............................................................. Running a report ........................................................................ Saving or exporting a report ......................................................... Printing a report ........................................................................ Status of Backups report ............................................................. Client Backups report ................................................................. Problems report ......................................................................... 948 949 949 950 950 950 950

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All Log Entries report .................................................................. Images on Media report ............................................................... Media Logs report ....................................................................... Images on Tape report ................................................................. Tape Logs report ........................................................................ Tape Contents report .................................................................. Tape Summary report ................................................................. Tape Written report .................................................................... Tape Lists report ........................................................................ Images on Disk report ................................................................. Disk Logs report ......................................................................... Disk Storage Unit Status report ..................................................... Disk Pool Status report ................................................................

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Administering NetBackup ..................................... 955Management topics ........................................................... 957NetBackup naming conventions .................................................... Wildcard use in NetBackup ........................................................... How to administer devices on other servers ..................................... How to access media and devices on other hosts ............................... About the Enterprise Media Manager ............................................. About Enterprise Media Manager domain requirements .............. About sharing an EMM server ................................................. 957 958 960 961 962 962 963

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Accessing a remote server ............................................... 965Accessing remote servers ............................................................. About adding a NetBackup server to a server list .............................. Adding a server to a remote server list ..................................... About choosing a remote server to administer ................................. Using the change server command to administer a remote server ........................................................................... Indicating a remote system upon login ..................................... About using the Remote Administration Console .............................. About using the Java Windows Administration Console ..................... About running the NetBackup Administration Console on a NetBackup client ................................................................................. About troubleshooting remote server administration ........................ 965 966 967 969 970 971 972 973 974 974

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Using the NetBackup-Java administration console ........................................................................... 977About the NetBackup-Java Administration Console ........................... About authorizing NetBackup-Java users ........................................ Authorization file (auth.conf) characteristics ................................... About authorizing nonroot users for specific applications .................. About authorizing specific tasks in jbpSA ....................................... About authorizing NetBackup-Java users on Windows ....................... Restricting access to NetBackup-Java applications on Windows .......... Runtime configuration options for NetBackup-Java and Java Windows Administration Console ......................................................... FIREWALL_IN ..................................................................... FORCE_IPADDR_LOOKUP ...................................................... INITIAL_MEMORY, MAX_MEMORY ......................................... MEM_USE_WARNING ........................................................... NBJAVA_CLIENT_PORT_WINDOW .......................................... NBJAVA_CORBA_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT .................................... NBJAVA_CORBA_LONG_TIMEOUT .......................................... PBX_PORT .......................................................................... VNETD_PORT ...................................................................... About logging the command lines that the NetBackup interfaces use ..................................................................................... About customizing jnbSA and jbpSA with bp.conf entries .................. About improving NetBackup-Java performance ................................ About running the Java console locally ..................................... About running a console locally and administering a remote server ........................................................................... About enhancing console performance ..................................... About determining better performance when console is run locally or uses remote display back .................................... NetBackup-Java performance scenario 1 ................................... NetBackup-Java performance scenario 2 ................................... About adjusting time zones in the NetBackup-Java console ................ Adjusting the time zone in the NetBackup-Java console ............... Configuring a custom time zone in the NetBackup-Java console ......................................................................... 977 980 981 983 984 985 986 986 987 988 990 990 990 991 991 992 992 992 993 993 994 994 995 996 996 997 998 998 999

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Alternate server restores ................................................ 1001About alternate server restores ................................................... About supported configurations for alternate server restores ........... About performing alternate server restores ................................... About modifying the NetBackup catalogs ................................ 1001 1002 1003 1004

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Overriding the original server for restores ............................... 1005 About enabling automatic failover to an alternate server ........... 1007 Expiring and importing media for alternate server restores ........ 1008

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Managing client restores ................................................ 1011About server-directed restores .................................................... About client-redirected restores .................................................. About restore restrictions .................................................... About allowing all clients to perform redirected restores ........... About allowing a single client to perform redirected restores ...................................................................... About allowing redirected restores of a clients files .................. Examples of redirected restores ............................................. About restoring the files that have Access Control Lists (ACLs) ......... Restoring files without restoring ACLs .................................... About setting the original atime for files during restores ................. About restoring the System State ................................................ Restoring the System State ................................................... 1011 1012 1013 1013 1014 1014 1015 1019 1020 1021 1021 1022

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Powering down and rebooting NetBackup servers .......................................................................... 1025Powering down and rebooting NetBackup servers ........................... Shutting down and starting up all NetBackup daemons on UNIX/Linux ....................................................................... Rebooting a NetBackup server ..................................................... Rebooting a NetBackup media server ............................................ About displaying active processes with bpps .................................. About displaying robotic processes with vmps ............................... 1025 1026 1026 1027 1027 1028

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About Granular Recovery Technology ......................... 1029About installing and configuring Network File System (NFS) for Active Directory Granular Recovery ................................................ About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on the Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 NetBackup media server and NetBackup clients ......................................................... Enabling Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2008 or Windows 2008 R2 .............................................. Disabling the Client for NFS on the media server ...................... Disabling the Server for NFS ................................................. 1029

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About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on the Windows 2003 R2 SP2 NetBackup media server and NetBackup clients .............................................................................. Installing Services for NFS on the Windows 2003 R2 SP2 media server ......................................................................... Installing Services for NFS on Active Directory domain controllers or ADAM/LDS hosts with Windows 2003 R2 SP2 ............................................................................ Configuring a UNIX or Linux media server and Windows clients for backups and restores that use Granular Recovery Technology ........................................................................ Configuring a different network port for NBFSD .............................

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Chapter 1. Introducing NetBackup interfaces Chapter 2. Administering NetBackup licenses

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Introducing NetBackup interfacesThis chapter includes the following topics:

About NetBackup NetBackup documentation About NetBackup administration interfaces About using the NetBackup Administration Console NetBackup configuration wizards About the Backup, Archive, and Restore utility Activity Monitor utility NetBackup Management utilities Media and Device Management utilities Running the Troubleshooter Access Management utility

About NetBackupNetBackup provides a complete, flexible data protection solution for a variety of platforms. The platforms include Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux, and NetWare systems. NetBackup administrators can set up periodic or calendar-based schedules to perform automatic, unattended backups for clients across a network. An

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administrator can carefully schedule backups to achieve systematic and complete backups over a period of time, and optimize network traffic during off-peak hours. The backups can be full or incremental. Full backups back up all client files. Incremental backups back up only the files that have changed since the last backup. The NetBackup administrator can allow users to back up, restore, or archive the files from their computer. (An archive operation backs up a file, then deletes it from the local disk if the backup is successful.) NetBackup includes both the server and the client software as follows:

Server software resides on the computer that manages the storage devices. Client software resides on computer(s) that contain data to back up. (Servers also contain client software and can be backed up.)

Figure 1-1 shows an example of a NetBackup storage domain. Figure 1-1 NetBackup storage domain exampleNetBackup master server

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NetBackup accommodates multiple servers that work together under the administrative control of one NetBackup master server in the following ways:

The master server manages backups, archives, and restores. The master server is responsible for media and device selection for NetBackup. Typically, the

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master server contains the NetBackup catalog. The catalog contains the internal databases that contain information about NetBackup backups and configuration.

Media servers provide additional storage by allowing NetBackup to use the storage devices that are attached to them. Media servers can also increase performance by distributing the network load. Media servers can also be referred to by using the following terms:

Device hosts (when tape devices are present) Storage servers (when I/O is directly to disk) Data movers (when data is sent to independent, external disk devices like OpenStorage appliances)

During a backup or archive, the client sends backup data across the network to a NetBackup server. The NetBackup server manages the type of storage that is specified in the backup policy. During a restore, users can browse, then select the files and directories to recover. NetBackup finds the selected files and directories and restores them to the disk on the client.

NetBackup documentationNetBackup documentation is part of the NetBackup media kit and can be found in a directory on the installation DVD for each release platform. The documents are in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), viewable with the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Download the reader from http://www.adobe.com. Symantec assumes no responsibility for the installation and use of the reader. For a complete list of NetBackup technical documents, see the Related Documents appendix in the NetBackup Release Notes. The Symantec support Web site contains links to the most recent documentation plus a list of helpful how-to and product alert topics. http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=landing&key=15143

About NetBackup administration interfacesThe NetBackup administrator has a choice of several interfaces to use to administer NetBackup. All the interfaces have similar capabilities. The best choice depends on personal preference and the workstation that is available to the administrator.

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