Symantec NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume IUNIX and Linux

Release 7.1

21159734

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

Section 1Chapter 1

About NetBackup

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Introducing NetBackup interfaces ................................... 33About NetBackup ......................................................................... Online documents ........................................................................ About NetBackup administration interfaces ...................................... Starting the Java-based Windows Display Console ........................ About setting up the NetBackup Administration Console ............... About administering remote servers .......................................... About using the NetBackup Administration Console ........................... Standard and user toolbars ...................................................... About customizing the 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 ............................................................ 33 35 35 37 38 41 41 43 43 43 44 45 45 47 48 49

Chapter 2

Administering NetBackup licenses .................................. 51About 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 .................................. 51 52 53 54 54 55 55 55

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Configuring hosts ........................................................ 57Configuring Host Properties ............................................. 59NetBackup Host Properties configuration methods ............................ 61 About the Host Properties .............................................................. 62 Viewing host properties .......................................................... 63 Changing the host properties on multiple hosts at the same time ............................................................................... 64 Property states for multiple hosts ............................................. 65 Exporting host properties ........................................................ 67 Standard host property dialog box options .................................. 67 Access Control properties .............................................................. 67 Authentication Domain tab ...................................................... 68 Authorization Service tab ........................................................ 70 Network Attributes tab ............................................................ 71 Active Directory host properties ..................................................... 73 Backup Exec Tape Reader properties ............................................... 75 Bandwidth properties ................................................................... 77 Bandwidth limit usage considerations and restrictions .................. 78 Add Bandwidth Settings dialog box for Bandwidth properties ....................................................................... 79 Busy File Settings properties .......................................................... 79 Activating the Busy File Settings in host properties ...................... 81 Clean-up properties ...................................................................... 82 Client Name properties ................................................................. 84 Client Attributes properties ........................................................... 85 Add Client dialog box .............................................................. 87 General tab of the Client Attributes properties ............................ 87 Connect Options tab of the Client Attributes properties ................. 92 Windows Open File Backup tab of the Client Attributes properties ....................................................................... 93 Backlevel and upgraded clients that use Windows Open File Backup ........................................................................... 97 Client Settings properties for NetWare clients ................................... 98 Client Settings (UNIX) properties .................................................... 99 VxFS file change log for incremental backups property ............... 101 Client Settings properties for Windows clients ................................. 103 How to determine if change journal support is useful in your NetBackup environment .................................................. 107 Guidelines for enabling NetBackup change journal support .......... 108 Credential Access properties ........................................................ 109 Data Classification properties ....................................................... 110

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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 ...................................................................... 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 ............................... Servers properties ...................................................................... Adding a server to the Additional servers list ............................. Adding a server to the Media servers list ................................... Removing a server from the Additional servers list or the Media servers 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 ...................................................... Add Bandwidth Settings dialog box for Throttle Bandwidth properties ..................................................................... Timeouts properties .................................................................... Universal Settings properties .......................................................

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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 ......................................................................... 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 ............................................................ 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 .........................................................................

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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 .................. 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 ......... PREFERRED_NETWORK bp.conf entry ..................................... RANDOM _PORTS bp.conf entry for UNIX servers and clients .......................................................................... RE_READ_INTERVAL bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ................. REVERSE_NAME_LOOKUP bp.conf entry for UNIX servers and clients .......................................................................... REQUIRED_NETWORK server configuration entry ..................... RESUME_ORIG_DUP_ON_OPT_DUP_FAIL bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ................................................................. SERVER bp.conf entry for UNIX servers ................................... 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 .................

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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 .......... 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 ............................................... 293About server groups .................................................................... Configuring a server group ........................................................... Server group properties ......................................................... Deleting a server group ............................................................... 293 294 296 296

Chapter 5 Chapter 6

Configuring host credentials ........................................... 297About configuring credentials ....................................................... 297

Managing media servers .................................................. 299Activating 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 .............................. 299 300 301 302 303 303 304 308 309 310 311 313

Section 3Chapter 7

Configuring storage .................................................. 315Configuring robots and tape drives ............................... 317About optical device support in NetBackup 7.0 ................................. About NetBackup robot types ....................................................... Device configuration prerequisites ................................................ About the device mapping files ..................................................... 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 ..................................................................... 318 318 319 319 320 321 321 322 323 323 324 325 325 325

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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 ........................................ 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 .................................................................. Media ejection timeout periods ............................................... About rescanning and updating bar codes ................................. Rescanning and updating bar codes ......................................... 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 ..................................................................

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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 ........................................................... 405About 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 ..................................................... 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 ................................ 406 407 409 410 412 413 414 415 416 417 417 419 420 421 423 427 427 428 429 431 432 433 434 435 436 438 439 444

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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 .................................................. 465Configuring BasicDisk storage ...................................................... Configuring NearStore storage ..................................................... About configuring disk pool storage ............................................... About SharedDisk support in NetBackup 7.0 and later ....................... 465 465 466 466

Chapter 11

Configuring storage units ................................................ 469About the Storage utility .............................................................. Using the Storage utility ........................................................ About storage units .................................................................... Creating a storage unit using the Device Configuration Wizard ................................................................................... Creating a storage unit using the Actions menu ......................... 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 ............................................. 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 ................................................. 469 470 470 472 472 473 473 473 474 476 481 483 483 484 484 484

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

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Configuring storage unit groups .................................... 517About Storage unit groups ........................................................... Creating a storage unit group ....................................................... Deleting a storage unit group ........................................................ Storage unit selection criteria within a group .................................. Media server load balancing ................................................... 517 517 519 520 521

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Other load balancing methods ................................................ 522 Exception to the storage unit selection criteria .......................... 524 About disk spanning within storage unit groups ............................... 524

Chapter 14

Configuring storage lifecycle policies ........................... 525About storage lifecycle policies ..................................................... Creating a storage lifecycle policy .................................................. Storage Lifecycle Policy dialog box settings ..................................... About associating backup data with a data classification .................... Accessing the Data Classification host properties ....................... Deleting a storage lifecycle policy .................................................. Adding a storage destination to a storage lifecycle policy ................... New or Change Storage Destination dialog box settings ............... Staged capacity managed retention type for storage destinations .................................................................. Staged capacity managed retention type and disk types that support SIS ................................................................... Use for: Backup, duplication, Snapshot, or Import destination .................................................................... Retention type mixing for storage destinations ......................... Hierarchical view of storage destinations in the Storage lifecycle policy dialog box .................................................................. Adding a hierarchical duplication destination ............................ Adding a non-hierarchical duplication destination ..................... Modifying the source of a hierarchical duplication destination .................................................................... Removing a destination from the storage destination list ............. Example of storage destination hierarchical view ....................... About writing multiple copies using a storage lifecycle policy ............. How destination order determines the copy order ...................... About ensuring successful copies using lifecycles ...................... About storage lifecycle policy versions .......................................... Storage lifecycle changes and versioning .................................. When changes to storage lifecycle policies become effective ....................................................................... About deleting old storage lifecycle policy versions .................... LIFECYCLE_PARAMETERS file for optional lifecycle-managed job configuration ....................................................................... LIFECYCLE_PARAMETERS file example ................................... About batch creation logic in Storage Lifecycle Manager .............. Lifecycle operation administration using the nbstlutil command ......... 525 526 527 529 530 531 532 534 538 540 540 542 543 545 546 546 548 548 550 550 551 552 552 554 555 555 561 562 563

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Chapter 15

Duplicating images to a remote master server domain ........................................................................... 565Process overview to duplicate to a remote master ............................. Setup overview to duplicate to a remote master domain .................... About defining the domain relationship .......................................... Configuring a replication target using MSDP ............................. Configuring the storage lifecycle policies required to duplicate to a remote master server ............................................................ Customizing how nbstserv runs duplication and import jobs .............................................................................. One-to-many duplication to remote master server model ................... Cascading duplications to remote masters ....................................... Restoring from a backup at a remote master domain ......................... Reporting on duplication to remote master jobs ............................... 565 567 569 569 570 573 574 574 578 578

Section 4Chapter 16

Configuring backups ................................................ 581Creating backup policies .................................................. 583About the Policies utility .............................................................. Navigating in the Policies utility .................................................... Planning for policies ................................................................... Example of one client in multiple policies ................................. Policy attributes that affect how clients are grouped in policies ......................................................................... Creating a policy using the Backup Policy Configuration Wizard ......... Creating a policy without using the Backup 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) ............................................ 584 584 586 588 589 590 590 591 592 592 593 593 594 597 598 599 601 605 606 607 607

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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) ............................................................ 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) ............................... Keyword phrase (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) ...................................... 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 ........................................................................

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Runtime considerations that affect backup frequency ................. Runtime considerations ............................................................... About the Clients tab ................................................................... Adding or changing clients in a policy ...................................... 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 ........................... 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 ............................................................. 725About 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 ............................... 725 726 728 730 732 732

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Change journal and synthesized backups ........................................ True image restore and synthesized backups ................................... 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 ................................. 741About NetBackup catalogs ............................................................ Parts of the NetBackup catalog ..................................................... About the NetBackup image database ....................................... About the NetBackup relational database .................................. Protecting the NetBackup catalog .................................................. About online, hot 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 ...................................................... Indexing the catalog for faster access to backups ........................ About image catalog compression ............................................ 741 742 743 745 748 748 759 759 759 761 761 763 763 764 766 766 767 767 768

Chapter 19

About the NetBackup relational database ................... 771About 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 ....................... 771 773 779 780 781 781

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About the Select/Restart Database and Change Password menu options ......................................................................... 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 online, hot catalog backup process ............................. Unloading the NetBackup database ................................................ Terminating database connections ................................................ Moving the NetBackup database from one host to another ................. Cluster considerations with the EMM server ..............................

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Chapter 20

Managing backup images ................................................ 807About the Catalog utility .............................................................. About searching for backup images ............................................... About the Messages pane ............................................................ 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 ........................................ 807 808 810 810 811 811 813 817 818 819 819 820 821 821 822

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Differences between importing, browsing, and restoring Backup Exec and NetBackup images ............................................. 825

Section 5Chapter 21

Monitoring and reporting ...................................... 827Monitoring NetBackup activity ....................................... 829About 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 ..................................... About the Daemons tab ............................................................... Using the nbrbutil utility to configure the NetBackup Resource Broker .......................................................................... 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 ..................................................... 829 830 832 833 833 834 834 835 835 835 836 836 836 837 837 841 846 846 846 847 851 852 852 853 854 855 855 855 856 856 857 858 858 859

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Resubmitting a request .......................................................... 859 Denying a request ................................................................. 860

Chapter 22

Auditing NetBackup operations ..................................... 861About NetBackup auditing ........................................................... Viewing the current audit settings ................................................. Configuring auditing on a NetBackup master server .......................... Auditing configuration after upgrading to NetBackup 7.1 ............ 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 .................................... 861 864 865 867 868 868 869 870 874 874

Chapter 23

Reporting in NetBackup ................................................... 877About the Reports utility ............................................................. Running a report ........................................................................ Saving or exporting a report ......................................................... Printing a report ........................................................................ Status of Backups report ............................................................. Client Backups report ................................................................. Problems report ......................................................................... All Log Entries report .................................................................. Images on Media report ............................................................... Media Logs report ....................................................................... Images on Disk report ................................................................. Disk Logs report ......................................................................... Disk Storage Unit Status report ..................................................... Disk Pool Status report ................................................................ Images on Tape report ................................................................. Tape Logs report ........................................................................ Tape Contents report .................................................................. Tape Summary report ................................................................. Tape Written report .................................................................... Tape Lists report ........................................................................ 878 879 879 880 880 880 880 881 881 881 881 881 881 882 882 882 882 882 883 883

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Administering NetBackup ..................................... 885Management topics ........................................................... 887NetBackup 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 ................................................. 887 888 890 891 892 892 893

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Accessing a remote server ............................................... 895Accessing 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 ........................ 895 896 897 900 900 901 902 903 904 905

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Using the NetBackup-Java administration console ........................................................................... 907About 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 ..................................................... FIREWALL_IN ..................................................................... FORCE_IPADDR_LOOKUP ...................................................... INITIAL_MEMORY, MAX_MEMORY ......................................... MEM_USE_WARNING ........................................................... NBJAVA_CLIENT_PORT_WINDOW .......................................... NBJAVA_CORBA_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT .................................... 907 910 911 913 914 915 916 916 917 918 920 920 920 921

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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 .........................................................................

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Alternate server restores ................................................. 931About alternate server restores ..................................................... About supported configurations for alternate server restores ............. About performing alternate server restores ..................................... About modifying the NetBackup catalogs .................................. Overriding the original server for restores ................................ About enabling automatic failover to an alternate server ............. Expiring and importing media for alternate server restores .......... 931 932 933 934 935 937 938

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Managing client restores ................................................. 941About 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 files and access control lists ................................... About restoring the files that have ACLs ................................... Restoring files without restoring ACLs ..................................... How to improve search times by creating an image list ...................... 941 942 943 943 944 944 945 949 950 950 951

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About setting the original atime for files during restores ................... 951 About restoring the System State .................................................. 952 Restoring the System State .................................................... 952

Chapter 29

Powering down and rebooting NetBackup servers ............................................................................ 955Powering down and rebooting NetBackup servers ............................. Shutting down all NetBackup daemons on UNIX/Linux ..................... 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 ................................. 955 956 956 956 957 957 958

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About Granular Recovery Technology ........................... 959About 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 .................................................. 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 .............................. 959

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About NetBackup

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Introducing NetBackup interfacesThis chapter includes the following topics:

About NetBackup Online documents 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

Media servers

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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 performing I/O directly to disk) Data movers (when sending data 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.

Online documentsNetBackup documents are delivered on a documentation CD that is included with the NetBackup media kit. Contact your NetBackup administrator to obtain the location of this CD or to have the files installed on your computer. These online documents are in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). To view PDF documents, you must use the Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can 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.

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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On Windows: Select NetBackup Administration Console from the Start menu. Or, install and use the Java Windows Administration Console. The Java Windows Administration Console is not automatically installed on the system. Installation is available on the main NetBackup for Windows Servers installation screen. On UNIX: The NetBackup Administration Console is the recommended interface and is the interface referred to by most procedures and examples in the documentation. Start the Java-based, graphical user interface by running the jnbSA command. You can run the console on a Java-capable UNIX platform and display it back to a Windows system by using third-party X terminal emulation software. See About setting up the NetBackup Administration Console on page 38. See About using the NetBackup Administration Console on page 41.

Note: To log in to any NetBackup Administration Console, your login credentials must be authenticated from the connecting master or media server. This is true whether or not NetBackup Access Control (NBAC) is in use. Remote Administration Console You can install the Remote Administration Console on a Windows computer to admini