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NetBackup™ NAS Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2024-03-27

Product(s): NetBackup (10.4)

Setting up a NAS-Data-Protection policy

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

While configuring the D-NAS policy the Use Accelerator and Take checkpoints every policy attributes are enabled by default. The default value of Take checkpoints every 30 minutes.

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

On the left, click Policies, under Protection.
In the 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.
By default the Take checkpoints every option is selected at 30-minutes interval. You can configure the time interval as required.
Optionally, clear the option to disable periodic checkpoints.
If required, select the Limit jobs per policy option 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 option.
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, the Auto option is selected which enables NetBackup to automatically determine the snapshot type to be used for an array snapshot.
- Snapshot Manager: Select the NetBackup Snapshot Manager host which communicates with the storage array to perform the snapshot operations.
If required, select the Go into effect at option and select the date and time.
Optionally, clear the Use Accelerator option to disable accelerator for the policy.
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 value for Maximum number of streams per volume. The 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 a total of 20 child backup streams and 5 parent backup streams as part of backup execution of the policy.
On the Schedules tab, select the backup schedules. To add a 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 NFS or SMB as required.
- (Optional) Select Include mixed volumes to select the volumes protected by both NFS and SMB protocols, under Backup selections.
- From the Backup host pool drop-down, select any of the following:
  - Select an already created backup host.
  - Select All media server pool. See About the All media server pool option .
  - Select Create a new backup hot pool to create a new backup host pool. See Configuring a backup host pool .
  - If you have not created a backup host pool already, the Backup selections dialog box appears. Click Yes to configure. See Configuring a backup host pool .
From the Backup Host Pool list, select the preferred pool, and select the required volume(s) from the table.
To add a new volume, click Add.
- In the 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.