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NetBackup™ NAS Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2023-03-31

Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.2)

Setting up a NAS-Data-Protection policy

You must set up NAS data protection policy to protect your assets.

To set up a policy for NAS data protection in web UI

On the left, click Policies, under Protection.
In Policies page, click Add.
On the Attributes tab, enter the policy name.
From the Policy type list, select NAS-Data-Protection.
From the Data classification list, select the preferred classification.
From the Policy Storage list, select a storage lifecycle policy.
For more details, refer to NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.
From the Policy volume pool list, select the preferred pool.
If required, select the Take checkpoints every checkbox and enter a value in minutes.
If required, select the Limit jobs per policy checkbox and enter the value.
Enter a numerical value for Job priority.
From the Media owner list, select the preferred owner.
If required, select Enable vendor change tracking for incremental backups checkbox.
The Perform snapshot backups option is selected by default. Click Options to configure the snapshot options:
- Snapshot Type: Select the appropriate snapshot type. By default, Auto option is selected which enables NetBackup to automatically determine the snapshot type to be used for array snapshot.
- Snapshot Manager: Select the NetBackup Snapshot Manager host which communicates with the storage array to perform the snapshot operations.
If required, select Go into effect at checkbox and select the date and time.
Select Use Accelerator, if required.
See Accelerator for D-NAS .
If required, enter the phrase in Keyword phrase (optional).
Under Dynamic data streaming attributes, Allow dynamic streaming is auto-selected. If required change the values for the Maximum number of streams per volume and Maximum number of files in a batch. Maximum number of streams per volume determines the number of backup streams that are deployed for backing up each volume. For example, if a policy contains 5 volumes and the value of this parameter is set to 4, then a group of 4 backup streams for each volume is seen, thereby total of 20 child backup streams and 10 parent backup streams as part of backup execution of the policy.
On the Schedules tab, select the backup schedules. To add new schedule, click Add.
For more details about adding schedules, refer to NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.
On the Clients tab, from the NAS supported vendor list, select the preferred vendor.
To add a client, click Add.
- Select the array on the left, and the required array heads for the array from the list on the right.
- Click Save.
On the Backup Selections tab, select the preferred protocol.
- NFS
- SMB
If you have not created a backup host pool already, the Backup selections dialog box appears. Click Yes to configure.
- In Add backup host pool dialogue box, enter the Backup host pool name.
- From the OS type list, select the preferred OS type.
- Enter the name in Enter host name to add to list and click Add to list.
- Select the required backup host(s).
- Click Save.
To enable mixed volume support, select the Include Mixed Volume checkbox.
From the Backup Host Pool list, select the preferred pool, and select the required volume(s) from the table below.
To add a new volume, click Add.
- In Add backup selection dialog box, do one of the following:
  - From the Pathname or directive list, select the preferred and click Add to list.
  - Click Browse and select the preferred.
- Click Add.
On the Exclude Volumes tab, in the Volume to exclude field, enter keyword for the preferred volumes that you do not want to backup and click Add to list.
The volume entered to exclude appears in the below table. To edit or delete, select the Volume name.
Click Create.