Veritas Access Appliance 8.1 Solutions Guide for NetBackup

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Product(s): Appliances (8.1)
Platform: Veritas 3340,Veritas 3350
  1. Access Appliance integration with NetBackup
    1.  
      About Access Appliance as a NetBackup client
    2.  
      About Access Appliance as backup storage for NetBackup
    3.  
      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 MSDP-C
  3. Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication with Access Appliance
    1.  
      About Veritas Data Deduplication
    2.  
      Benefits of using Veritas Data Deduplication with Access Appliance
    3. Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication without WORM
      1.  
        Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication using the GUI
      2.  
        Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication using the Access CLISH
    4. Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication with WORM
      1.  
        Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication with WORM using GUI
      2.  
        Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication with WORM using the Access CLISH
    5.  
      Managing Veritas Data Deduplication using the Access CLISH
    6. Managing Veritas Data Deduplication using GUI
      1.  
        Viewing information about Veritas Data Deduplication
      2.  
        Starting or stopping the Veritas Data Deduplication service
      3.  
        Increasing storage for Veritas Data Deduplication
      4.  
        Unconfiguring Veritas Data Deduplication
      5.  
        Adding secondary IP for Veritas Data Deduplication
      6.  
        Deleting secondary IP for Veritas Data Deduplication
    7. Accessing Access Appliance storage shell for management tasks
      1. About the Access Appliance storage server shell
        1. About the dedupe command
          1.  
            Stopping and starting the MSDP services
        2.  
          About the retention command
        3.  
          About the setting command
        4.  
          About the support command
    8.  
      Support for multiple domains across networks for Veritas Data Deduplication
    9.  
      Veritas Data Deduplication storage layout
    10.  
      Configuring a Veritas Data Deduplication storage unit on NetBackup
    11.  
      Configuring global deduplication using the Veritas Data Deduplication storage server across the domain
    12.  
      Enabling Veritas Data Deduplication encryption
    13.  
      Support for bandwidth throttling during duplication
    14.  
      Setting up secure communication between Veritas Data Deduplication on Access Appliance and the NetBackup primary server
    15.  
      About MSDP encryption using NetBackup KMS service
    16. Support for NetBackup Auto Image Replication
      1.  
        Separating the duplication and replication network
    17.  
      Setting up Auto Image Replication (AIR) between two Access Appliances which have secure communication enabled
  4. Configuring MSDP-C with Access Appliance
    1.  
      Starting the Access S3 server and provisioning the S3 bucket
    2.  
      Configuring Access S3 bucket with NetBackup MSDP-C
  5. Migrating the NetBackup images from existing storage to Veritas Access storage
    1.  
      Migrating NetBackup images from CloudCatalyst/S3/MSDP-C to Veritas Data Deduplication storage
    2.  
      Migrating the NetBackup images from the Veritas Data Deduplication STU to the MSDP-C STU
  6. Configuring Access Appliance with the NetBackup client
    1.  
      Configuring Access Appliance for NetBackup client
    2.  
      Installing the NetBackup client add-on packages
    3.  
      Prerequisites for configuring the NetBackup client
    4.  
      Configuring the NetBackup client
    5.  
      Adding an optional media server
    6.  
      Adding multiple primary servers
    7.  
      Adding file systems to the backup configuration
    8.  
      Removing file systems from backup configuration
    9.  
      Changing the virtual IP address used by the NetBackup client
    10.  
      Upgrade the NetBackup client
    11.  
      Unconfiguring the NetBackup client
    12.  
      Enabling Veritas Data Deduplication catalog backup with NetBackup client
    13.  
      Disabling Veritas Data Deduplication catalog backup from NetBackup client
    14.  
      Displaying the status of NetBackup services
    15.  
      Configuring backup operations using NetBackup or other third-party backup applications
    16.  
      Restoring filesystems backed up with NetBackup client
  7. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Additional resources
    2.  
      Generating Access Appliance S3 server keys using the helper script
  8.  
    Index

Setting up secure communication between Veritas Data Deduplication on Access Appliance and the NetBackup primary server

You can setup secure communication between Veritas Data Deduplication on Access Appliance and the NetBackup primary server.

Prerequisites:

  • The /usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf file on the NetBackup primary server should have MSDP_SERVER entry for the MSDP server's FQDN.

  • After adding the entry in the bp.conf, run the /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bprdreq -rereadconfig command.

For clusters where DNS is not configured, the container's host name is created internally using the catalog file system name. For example, if the catalog file system name is catfs1, the container's host name is set to catfs1.vdd.com. For such setups, the MSDP_SERVER entry on the primary server's bp.conf file should point to the container's host name. To query the container's host name, use the support software show-OS-version command in the MSDP restricted shell. Or if you have access to the host running the container, you can log on to the host and run the docker exec <container_name> hostname command.

You can enable secure communication between the deduplication server and NetBackup primary server using the securecomm nbca enable command. The securecomm nbca enable command enables Host ID certificate based secure communication between the deduplication server and the NetBackup primary, which is also the Certificate Authority. The authorization token should be generated on the NetBackup primary. A reissue token is required if the certificate is to be regenerated. This command only supports secure communication using a NetBackup Certificate Authority.

dedupe> securecomm nbca enable primary_server token config_name

primary_server

FQDN of the NetBackup primary server which is also the KMS server.

token

Token which is to be generated on the NetBackup primary.

config_name

Name for the deduplication service.

Note:

This is an optional parameter when only one deduplication server is present in the cluster. It is mandatory if more than one deduplication servers are present.