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NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
Last Published:
2025-08-12
Product(s):
NetBackup (11.0.0.1)
- Section I. About NetBackup
- Section II. Monitoring and notifications
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- The NetBackup dashboard
- Activity monitor
- Job monitoring
- Workloads that require a custom RBAC role for specific job permissions
- View a job
- Expand or collapse rows in the Jobs tab
- View the jobs in the List view
- View the jobs in the Hierarchy view
- Jobs: cancel, suspend, restart, resume, delete
- View the logs for a job
- Search for or filter jobs in the jobs list
- Create a jobs filter
- Edit, copy, or delete a jobs filter
- Import or export job filters
- Collect logs for Cohesity Technical Support
- View the status of a redirected restore
- Troubleshooting the viewing and managing of jobs
- Device monitor
- Notifications
- Registering the data collector
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Section III. Configuring hosts
- Managing host properties
- Overview of host properties
- View or edit the host properties of a server or client
- Host information and settings in Host properties
- Reset a host's attributes
- Active Directory properties
- Backup pool host properties
- Busy file settings properties
- Clean up properties
- Client name properties
- Client attributes properties
- Client settings properties for UNIX clients
- Client settings properties for Windows clients
- Cloud Storage properties
- Credential access properties
- Data Classification properties
- Default job priorities properties
- Distributed application restore mapping properties
- Encryption properties
- Enterprise Vault properties
- Enterprise Vault hosts properties
- Exchange properties
- Exclude list properties
- Fibre transport properties
- Firewall properties
- General server properties
- Global attributes properties
- Logging properties
- Lotus Notes properties
- Media properties
- Network properties
- Network settings properties
- Nutanix AHV access hosts
- Port ranges properties
- Preferred network properties
- Add or edit a Preferred network setting
- How NetBackup uses the directives to determine which network to use
- Configurations to use IPv6 networks
- Configurations to use IPv4 networks
- Order of directive processing in the Preferred network properties
- bptestnetconn utility to display Preferred network information
- Configuration to prohibit using a specified address
- Configuration to prefer a specified address
- Configuration that restricts NetBackup to one set of addresses
- Configuration that limits the addresses, but allows any interfaces
- Properties setting in host properties
- RHV access hosts properties
- Resilient network properties
- Resource limit properties
- Restore failover properties
- Retention periods properties
- Scalable Storage properties
- Servers properties
- SharePoint properties
- SLP settings properties
- Throttle bandwidth properties
- Timeouts properties
- Universal settings properties
- UNIX client properties
- UNIX Server properties
- User account settings properties
- VMware access hosts properties
- Windows client properties
- Configuration options not found in the host properties
- About using commands to change the configuration options on UNIX or Linux clients and servers
- Managing credentials for workloads and systems that NetBackup accesses
- Overview of credential management in NetBackup
- Adding credentials in NetBackup
- Add a credential for NetBackup Callhome Proxy
- Add a credential for an external KMS
- Add a credential for Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP)
- Add a configuration for an external CMS server
- Edit or delete a named credential
- Edit or delete Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) credentials in NetBackup
- Managing deployment
- Managing host properties
- Section IV. Configuring storage
- Overview of storage options
- Configuring disk storage
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool storage server
- Integrating MSDP Cloud and CMS
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) storage server for image sharing
- Create an AdvancedDisk, OpenStorage (OST), or Cloud Connector storage server
- Create an MSDP server for MSDP volume group (MVG)
- Create the MVG volume
- Edit a storage server
- About configuring disk pool storage
- Share images from an on-premises location to the cloud
- Overview of universal shares
- About the MSDP object store
- Managing media servers
- Configuring storage units
- Configuring robots and tape drives
- NetBackup robot types
- About the device mapping files
- Downloading the device mapping files
- Prerequisites for configuring robots and drives
- About configuring robots and tapes drives in NetBackup
- Configure drives and robots by using the wizard
- Configure drive name rules
- Update the device configuration by using the wizard
- Robot properties and configuration options
- Robot control (robot configuration options)
- Managing robots
- Correlating tape drives and SCSI addresses on Windows hosts
- Correlating tape drives and device files on UNIX hosts
- Managing tape drives
- Verifying the device configuration
- About automatic path correction
- Enabling automatic path correction
- Replacing a device
- Updating device firmware
- About the NetBackup Device Manager
- About external access to NetBackup controlled devices on UNIX
- Configuring tape media
- About NetBackup tape volumes
- About NetBackup volume pools
- About NetBackup volume groups
- NetBackup media types
- About adding volumes
- Managing volumes
- Edit a volume
- About moving volumes
- Move volumes
- About recycling a volume
- About assigning and deassigning volumes
- Delete a volume
- Changing the media owner of a volume
- Changing the volume group assignment
- About rules for moving volumes between groups
- Rescan and update barcodes
- About barcode rules
- About injecting and ejecting volumes
- Label a volume
- Erase a volume
- Freeze or unfreeze a volume
- Suspend or unsuspend volumes
- Managing volume pools
- Managing volume groups
- Inventorying robots
- About robot inventory
- When to inventory a robot
- About showing a robot's contents
- Show the media in a robot
- About comparing a robot's contents with the volume configuration
- Comparing media in a robot with the volume configuration
- About previewing volume configuration changes
- Previewing volume configuration changes for a robot
- About updating the NetBackup volume configuration
- Update the NetBackup volume configuration with a robot's contents
- Robot inventory options
- Advanced options for robot inventory settings
- Configure media ID generation rules
- Barcode rules settings
- Media ID generation options
- Configure media settings
- About media type mapping rules
- Configure media type mappings
- Staging backups
- Troubleshooting storage configuration
- Section V. Configuring backups
- Overview of backups in the NetBackup web UI
- Managing policies
- Add a policy
- About the Epic-Large-File policy type
- Example policy - Exchange Server DAG backup
- Example policy - Sharded MongoDB cluster
- Example policy - Epic-Large-File
- Edit, copy, or delete a policy
- Deactivate or activate a policy
- View automanaged policies and SLPs
- About automanaged policies or storage lifecycle policies
- Perform manual backups
- Managing protection plans
- Create a protection plan
- Customizing protection plans
- Edit or delete a protection plan
- Subscribe an asset or an asset group to a protection plan
- Unsubscribe an asset from a protection plan
- View protection plan overrides
- Copy a protection plan policy (automanaged policy) to a classic policy
- About Backup now
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- About the NetBackup catalog
- Catalog backups
- The catalog backup process
- Prerequisites for backing up the NetBackup catalog
- Configuring catalog backups
- Backing up NetBackup catalogs manually
- Concurrently running catalog backups with other backups
- Catalog policy schedule considerations
- How catalog incrementals and standard backups interact on UNIX
- Determining whether or not a catalog backup succeeded
- Strategies that ensure successful NetBackup catalog backups
- Disaster recovery emails and the disaster recovery files
- Disaster recovery packages
- Set the passphrase to encrypt disaster recovery packages
- Recovering the catalog
- Managing backup images
- Pausing data protection activity
- Section VI. Managing security
- Security events and audit logs
- Managing security certificates
- Managing host mappings
- Minimizing security configuration risk
- Configuring multi-person authorization
- About multi-person authorization
- Workflow to configure multi-person authorization for NetBackup operations
- RBAC roles and permissions for multi-person authorization
- Multi-person authorization process with respect to roles
- NetBackup operations that need multi-person authorization
- Configure multi-person authorization
- View multi-person authorization tickets
- Manage multi-person authorization tickets
- Add exempted users
- Schedule expiration and purging of multi-person authorization tickets
- Disable multi-person authorization
- Managing user sessions
- Configuring multifactor authentication
- About multifactor authentication
- Configure multifactor authentication for your user account
- Disable multifactor authentication for your user account
- Enforce multifactor authentication for all users
- Configure multifactor authentication for your user account when it is enforced in the domain
- Reset multifactor authentication for a user
- Managing the global security settings for the primary server
- View the Certificate authority for secure communication
- Disable communication with NetBackup 8.0 and earlier hosts
- Disable automatic mapping of NetBackup host names
- Configure the global data-in-transit encryption setting
- About NetBackup certificate deployment security levels
- Select a security level for NetBackup certificate deployment
- About TLS session resumption
- Set a passphrase for disaster recovery
- Validate the disaster recovery package passphrase
- About trusted primary servers
- Configure the audit retention period
- Using access keys, API keys, and access codes
- Configuring authentication options
- Managing role-based access control (RBAC)
- Disabling access to NetBackup interfaces for OS Administrators
- Section VII. Detection and reporting
- Detecting anomalies
- About backup anomaly detection
- Configure backup anomaly detection settings
- View backup anomalies
- Disable backup anomaly detection and computation of entropy and file attributes for a client
- About system anomaly detection
- Configure system anomaly detection settings
- Configure rules-based anomaly detection
- Configure risk engine-based anomaly detection
- View system anomalies
- Malware scanning
- Usage reporting and capacity licensing
- Reports
- Detecting anomalies
- Section VIII. NetBackup workloads and NetBackup Flex Scale
- Section IX. Administering NetBackup
- Management topics
- Managing client backups and restores
- About server-directed restores
- About client-redirected restores
- About restoring the files that have Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- About setting the original atime for files during restores on UNIX
- Restoring the System State
- About the backup and restore of compressed files on VxFS file systems
- About backups and restores on ReFS
- Section X. Disaster recovery and troubleshooting
- Section XI. Other topics
- Additional NetBackup catalog information
- Parts of the NetBackup catalog
- Archiving the catalog and restoring from the catalog archive
- Estimating catalog space requirements
- About the file hash search in NetBackup
- Configuring the file hash server
- Enabling the file hash server on the NetBackup primary server
- Calculating the file hash
- Searching the files using the file hash
- Identifying the backups that have the file hash enabled
- Removing the file hash from the backup
- Migrating the file hash data from one server to another
- Configuring the backup of file hash data on the file hash server
- Restoring the file hash data to the file hash server
- About the NetBackup database
- About the NetBackup database installation
- Post-installation tasks
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on Windows
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on UNIX
- Additional NetBackup catalog information
Overview of backups in the NetBackup web UI
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