NetBackup™ 10.1 Application Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (2.1.4, 2.1.3, 2.1.2, 2.1.1)
Platform: Flex Appliance OS
  1. Product overview
    1.  
      Introduction to NetBackup applications for Flex Appliance
    2.  
      About the Flex Appliance documentation
  2. Release notes
    1.  
      NetBackup 10.1 application new features, enhancements, and changes
    2.  
      Supported upgrade paths to this release
    3.  
      Operational notes
  3. Geting started
    1.  
      Prerequisites before you can create NetBackup application instances
    2.  
      Installing the NetBackup Administration Console and client packages
  4. Creating NetBackup application instances
    1. Creating application instances
      1.  
        Creating a NetBackup primary server instance
      2.  
        Creating a NetBackup media server instance
      3.  
        Creating a NetBackup WORM storage server instance
  5. Managing NetBackup application instances
    1.  
      Managing application instances from Flex Appliance and NetBackup
    2. Accessing NetBackup primary and media server instances for management tasks
      1. Managing users on a primary or media server instance
        1.  
          Adding and removing local users on a primary or media server instance
        2.  
          Connecting an Active Directory user domain to a primary or a media server instance
        3.  
          Connecting an LDAP user domain to a primary or a media server instance
        4.  
          Changing a user password on a primary or media server instance
      2. Running NetBackup commands on a primary or media server application instance
        1.  
          Creating a NetBackup touch file on a primary or media server application instance
        2.  
          Installing NetBackup notify scripts on a primary or media server application instance
      3.  
        Monitoring NetBackup services on a NetBackup primary server instance
      4.  
        Mounting an NFS share on a NetBackup primary server instance
      5.  
        Setting environment variables on primary and media server instances
      6.  
        Storing custom data on a primary or media server instance
      7.  
        Modifying or disabling the nbdeployutil utility on a primary server instance
      8.  
        Disabling SMB server signing on a media server instance
      9.  
        Establishing trust with a NetBackup 7.7.3 primary server instance
      10.  
        Using a primary server instance for disaster recovery
    3. Accessing NetBackup WORM storage server instances for management tasks
      1. Managing users from the deduplication shell
        1.  
          Adding and removing local users from the deduplication shell
        2.  
          Adding MSDP users from the deduplication shell
        3.  
          Connecting an Active Directory domain to a WORM storage server for Universal Shares and Instant Access
        4.  
          Disconnecting an Active Directory domain from the deduplication shell
        5.  
          Changing a user password from the deduplication shell
      2.  
        Managing VLAN interfaces from the deduplication shell
      3.  
        Viewing the lockdown mode on a WORM storage server
      4.  
        Managing the retention policy on a WORM storage server
      5.  
        Managing images with a retention lock on a WORM storage server
      6.  
        Auditing WORM retention changes
      7. Managing certificates from the deduplication shell
        1.  
          Viewing the certificate details from the deduplication shell
        2.  
          Importing certificates from the deduplication shell
        3.  
          Removing certificates from the deduplication shell
      8.  
        Managing FIPS mode from the deduplication shell
      9.  
        Encrypting backups from the deduplication shell
      10. Configuring an isolated recovery environment on a Flex Appliance WORM storage server instance
        1.  
          Configuring data transmission between a production environment and a Flex Appliance IRE
      11.  
        Managing an isolated recovery environment on a Flex Appliance WORM storage server instance
      12.  
        Tuning the MSDP configuration from the deduplication shell
      13.  
        Setting the MSDP log level from the deduplication shell
      14. Managing NetBackup services from the deduplication shell
        1.  
          Managing the cyclic redundancy checking (CRC) service
        2.  
          Managing the content router queue processing (CRQP) service
        3.  
          Managing the online checking service
        4.  
          Managing the compaction service
        5.  
          Managing the deduplication (MSDP) services
        6.  
          Managing the Storage Platform Web Service (SPWS)
        7.  
          Managing the Veritas provisioning file system (VPFS) mounts
        8.  
          Managing the NGINX service
        9.  
          Managing the SMB service
      15. Monitoring and troubleshooting NetBackup services from the deduplication shell
        1.  
          About the support command

Storing custom data on a primary or media server instance

Flex Appliance does not generally support adding or editing directories and files on application instances. If you create or edit a directory or file and the instance is relocated or stopped for any reason, the changes are not maintained when the instance restarts.

However, if you have critical data that you must store on a NetBackup primary or media server application instance, use the following procedure to add it to the /mnt/nblogs directory.

Warning:

The /mnt/nblogs directory is used for NetBackup logs and has 250GB of storage space that cannot be resized. The data that you add to this directory must be critical and small in size. If you use too much storage space, the instance may be affected.

To store custom data on a NetBackup primary or media server instance

  1. Log in to the instance as the appadmin user.
  2. Run the following command to create a directory under /mnt/nblogs:

    sudo mkdir /mnt/nblogs/<directory>, where <directory> is the name of the new directory.

    For example, if you need to store SSH authorized_key files on the instance, you can make the following directory:

    sudo mkdir /mnt/nblogs/authorized_keys

  3. If required, run the following command to create a subdirectory:

    sudo mkdir /mnt/nblogs/<directory>/<subdirectory>, where <directory> is the name of the directory that you created in the previous step and <subdirectory> is the name of the subdirectory.

    In the authorized_keys example, you can create the following subdirectory to store a specific user's authorized_key file:

    sudo mkdir /mnt/nblogs/authorized_keys/example_user

  4. Add the required information to the new directory.