Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Documentation
- Getting to know the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- NetBackup Virtual Appliance product description
- Preparing to deploy the appliance
- Deploying and configuring the appliance
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance master server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance CloudCatalyst
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
- Post initial configuration procedures
- Appliance common tasks
- Storage management
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
- About viewing storage space information using the Show command
- About OpenStorage plugin installation
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
- Deduplication pool catalog backup and recovery
- Network connection management
- Managing users
- About user name and password specifications
- About authenticating LDAP users
- About authenticating Active Directory users
- About authenticating Kerberos-NIS users
- About user authorization on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
- Using the appliance
- About configuring Host parameters for your appliance on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- About Copilot functionality and Share management
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
- About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
- About mounting a remote NFS
- About Auto Image Replication from a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Monitoring the appliance
- About SNMP
- About Call Home
- Appliance security
- About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Setting the appliance login banner
- Upgrading the appliance
- About upgrading to NetBackup Virtual Appliance software version 3.2
- Requirements and best practices for upgrading NetBackup appliances
- Methods for downloading appliance software release updates
- NetBackup client upgrades with VxUpdate
- Appliance restore
- Decommissioning and Reconfiguring
- Troubleshooting
- About disaster recovery
- About NetBackup support utilities
- Appliance logging
- Commands overview
- Appendix A. Appliance commands
- Appendix B. Manage commands
- Appendix C. Monitor commands
- Appendix D. Network commands
- Appendix E. Reports commands
- Appendix F. Settings commands
- Appendix G. Support commands
Name
Main > Support > Checkpoint — Used to manage system checkpoints
SYNOPSIS
Checkpoint Create
Checkpoint Rollback
DESCRIPTION
This command exists under the Main_Menu > Support view. Use this command to create a new checkpoint or roll back the host to an existing appliance checkpoint.
OPTIONS
- Checkpoint Create
Use this command to create a user-defined checkpoint.
- Checkpoint Rollback
Use this command to rollback an appliance to a specific checkpoint that you select.
EXAMPLES
The following examples demonstrate how to create a new user-defined checkpoint and roll back to a specified checkpoint.
To create a new checkpoint from the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu:
- Log on to the appliance as an administrator and open the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu.
- Enter the following command to create a user-directed checkpoint:
Main_Menu > Support > Checkpoint Create
The following interactive process begins. The NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu informs you of any existing checkpoints before you can create a new checkpoint.
- Enter Yes to proceed with the creation of the new checkpoint.
- Enter a description for your checkpoint. That is an optional field.
- Enter Yes to begin the Create checkpoint process.
To roll back to an existing checkpoint from the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
- Log on to the appliance as an administrator and open the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu.
- Enter the following command to roll back to a checkpoint:
Main_Menu > Support > Checkpoint Rollback
The following interactive process begins. The NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu informs you of the components that are reverted during this process. It also lists all of the existing checkpoints.
Rolling back to an Appliance Checkpoint will restore the system back to the checkpoint's point-in-time. This can help undo any misconfiguration or system failures that might have occured. Rolling back to an Appliance Checkpoint will revert the following components: 1) Appliance Operating System 2) Appliance Software 3) NetBackup Software 4) Clustering Software 5) Networking Configuration 6) Any previously applied patches 7) Backup data is not reverted The existing Appliance Checkpoints in the system are: ------------------------------------------------------------ (1) Checkpoint Name: User directed checkpoint Date Created: Fri Oct 5 09:27:32 2012 Description: User checkpoint after configuring network ------------------------------------------------------------ Please enter the checkpoint to rollback to (Available options: 1 only):
- Enter the number of the checkpoint that you want to use for the Rollback operation.
- Enter Yes, if you want to automatically restart all appliances after the rollback completes.
- Enter Yes a second time to confirm that you want to restart appliances automatically after the rollback operation completes.
- Enter Yes to begin the rollback to a checkpoint operation.