Veritas Access Solutions Guide for NetBackup

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  1. Veritas Access integration with NetBackup
    1.  
      About Veritas Access
    2.  
      About Veritas Access as a NetBackup client
    3.  
      About Veritas Access as backup storage for NetBackup
    4.  
      Use cases for long-term data retention
  2. System requirements
    1.  
      Supported configurations and versions for NetBackup with Veritas Data Deduplication
    2.  
      Supported configurations and versions for NetBackup with CloudCatalyst
  3. Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication with Veritas Access
    1.  
      About Veritas Data Deduplication
    2.  
      Add-on license for using Veritas Data Deduplication
    3.  
      Benefits of using Veritas Data Deduplication with Veritas Access
    4.  
      Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication using the GUI
    5.  
      Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication using the Veritas Access command-line interface (CLI)
    6.  
      Configuring a Veritas Data Deduplication storage unit on NetBackup
    7.  
      Configuring global deduplication using the Veritas Data Deduplication storage server across the domain
  4. Migrating the NetBackup images from existing storage to Veritas Data Deduplication storage
    1.  
      Migrating the NetBackup image from OpenDedup/CloudCatalyst/S3 to Veritas Data Deduplication storage
  5. Configuring Veritas Access as a cloud storage server with NetBackup CloudCatalyst
    1.  
      Creating an S3 bucket on Veritas Access for storing deduplicated backup data from NetBackup
    2.  
      Creating a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) for primary backup using NetBackup
    3.  
      Configure Veritas Access as a cloud storage server on NetBackup server using CloudCatalyst
    4.  
      Enabling SSL on Veritas Access
  6. Configuring backup and restore using NetBackup policies
    1.  
      Storage Lifecycle Policies
    2.  
      Backup and restore
    3.  
      Running a backup policy manually
    4.  
      Restoring backed up files
  7. Configuring Veritas Access with the NetBackup client
    1.  
      Prerequisites for configuring the NetBackup client
    2.  
      About the NetBackup Snapshot Client
    3.  
      About NetBackup snapshot methods
    4.  
      Enabling or disabling the NetBackup SAN client
    5.  
      Workflow for configuring Veritas Access for NetBackup
    6.  
      Registering a NetBackup master server or adding an optional media server
    7.  
      Displaying the excluded files from backup
    8.  
      Displaying the included and excluded files for backups
    9.  
      Adding or deleting patterns to the list of files in backups
    10.  
      Configuring or resetting the virtual IP address used by NetBackup
    11.  
      Configuring the virtual name of NetBackup
    12.  
      Displaying the status of NetBackup services
    13.  
      Configuring backup operations using NetBackup or other third-party backup applications
    14.  
      Performing a backup or restore of a Veritas Access file system over a NetBackup SAN client
    15.  
      Performing a backup or restore of a snapshot
    16.  
      Installing or uninstalling the NetBackup client
    17.  
      Configuring Veritas Access for NetBackup cloud storage
  8. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Unmounting the SDFS volume before restarting Veritas Access or the NetBackup media server
    2.  
      Upgrading SDFS from earlier versions to 7.4.2
    3.  
      Log locations for troubleshooting
    4.  
      Changing log levels
    5.  
      Additional resources
    6.  
      Generating Veritas Access S3 server keys using the helper script
    7.  
      OpenDedup tuning recommendations
  9.  
    Index

Generating Veritas Access S3 server keys using the helper script

Create the access and the secret keys using the Veritas Access helper script in case you do not want to use the Active directory Domain user to create and own the buckets. This is an alternative way to get the Veritas Access S3 server credential keys.

  • Location of the helper script: /opt/VRTSnas/scripts/utils/objectaccess/objectaccess_client.py

  • The Veritas Access helper script can be used from any client system that has Python installed.

  • To run the script, your S3 client needs to have the argparse and requests Python modules.

    If these modules are missing, install both these modules using pip or easy_install.

  • Add the ADMIN_URL name in your /etc/hosts file.

    where the ADMIN_URL is admin.<cluster_name> and the port is 8144. This url should point to the Veritas Access management console IP address.

  • Create the access and the secret key using the Veritas Access helper script by providing the user name, password, and ADMIN_URL (check the online Help of the Veritas Access helper script for all of the provided operations like list key and delete key).

    Create a secret key:

    clus_01:~ # ./objectaccess_client.py --create_key 
--server admin.clus:8144 --username localuser1 --password root123 
--insecure
UserName                : localuser1
AccessKeyId             : Y2FkODU2NTU2MjVhYzV
Status                  : Active
SecretAccessKey         : ODk0YzQxMDhkMmRjM2M5OTUzNjI5OWIzMDgyNzY

    The <localuser1> is the local user created on both the Veritas Access cluster nodes with same unique ID.

    List a secret key for the specified user:

    clus_01:~ # ./objectaccess_client.py --list_key --server 
admin.clus:8144 --username localuser2 --password root123 --insecure

    Delete a secret key for the specified user:

    clus_01:~ # ./objectaccess_client.py --delete_key 
ZTkyNDdjZTViM2EyMWZ --server admin.clus:8144 --username localuser2 
--password root123 --insecure

  • If the object server is enabled without the SSL option, you need to add the --insecure option.

    clus_01 ~# ./objectaccess_client.py --server 
admin.clus:8144 --username <uname> --create_key --insecure