Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Getting Started Guide

About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server role

The NetBackup Virtual Appliance is a combined master and media server with its own virtual storage. You configure and use this appliance much like you would use a regular NetBackup master server with attached storage or a NetBackup 52xx Appliance that is configured as a master server. You can schedule backups or start a backup manually. Users with the appropriate privileges can perform restores.

This appliance role provides a simplified administrative interface for the local network and storage management. However, the majority of NetBackup administration such as backup management must be performed through the traditional NetBackup Administration Console.

For complete NetBackup administration information, see the NetBackup Administrator's Guide for UNIX and Linux, Volume I and Volume II.