Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Troubleshooting Guide
- About using the Troubleshooting Guide
- Best practices
- About troubleshooting tools
- Working with log files
- Disaster recovery
- Disaster recovery scenarios
- Appliance sustained power interruption
- Appliance hardware failure
- Complete loss of appliance with recoverable attached storage disks
- NetBackup Appliance database corruption
- NetBackup Appliance catalog corruption
- NetBackup Appliance error messages
Disaster recovery best practices
NetBackup offers a few different configuration options that can help aid in a disaster recovery process if a disaster strikes.
Note:
Use the following topology configurations as a general guide. Contact your Veritas account representative to establish what topology configuration best fits your particular environment.
Single domain configuration:
Create backups of the MSDP catalog. The backup protects the critical MSDP information about the contents of the backup data that exists on the NetBackup appliance.
A policy is automatically created when configuring the NetBackup appliance for the first time as well as when adding MSDP storage during a Storage > Resize operation.
Review the policy configuration and make changes to its schedules, backup window, and residence as required. Make sure to activate the policy to protect the catalog.
See "MSDP catalog backup policy creation during initial configuration" in the NetBackup Appliance 52xx Initial Configuration Guide or the NetBackup Appliance 5330 Initial Configuration Guide for more information.
Store catalog backups at an off-site location in case a recovery is necessary. You can use tape or cloud for restoration to a rebuilt master server at the disaster recovery site.
Multi-domain configuration:
Configure Auto Image Replication to replicate backups that are generated in one NetBackup domain to storage in another NetBackup domain.