NetBackup™ NAS Administrator's Guide
- Section I. About NAS backups
- Section II. Using NAS-Data-Protection (D-NAS)
- D-NAS overview
- D-NAS Planning and Tuning
- Pre-requisites for D-NAS configuration
- Configuring Storage Lifecyle Policies for D-NAS
- About storage lifecycle policies
- Snapshot operation in SLP
- Creating a storage lifecycle policy for snapshots and snapshot replication
- Replication operation in the SLP
- Index from snapshot operation in an SLP
- Backup from snapshot operation in an SLP
- Duplication operation in an SLP
- Retention types for SLP operations
- Volume multi-host backup
- Configure D-NAS policy for NAS backups
- About policies for NAS backups
- Planning for policies
- Prerequisites for D-NAS policies
- Configure D-NAS policy for NAS volumes
- Policy attributes
- Creating schedule attributes for policies
- Configuring the Start window
- Configuring the exclude dates
- Configuring clients
- Configuring backup selections
- Configuring exclude lists
- Ordering of backup from snapshot jobs
- About mixed mode volumes
- Configuring include and exclude lists
- Auto-resume backup for incomplete backup jobs
- Using Accelerator
- Using Vendor Change Tracking
- Using true image restore
- Replication using D-NAS policy
- Restoring from D-NAS backups
- Multi-stream restores from D-NAS backups
- Considerations for restoring from D-NAS backups
- About the Overwrite existing file option during restore
- RBAC role for D-NAS restores
- Scanning for malware
- Restore everything to a different location
- Restore individual files and folders to different locations
- Original location restores for D-NAS Policy
- Point-in-time rollback
- Multi-stream restores from D-NAS backups
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting
- Setting the log level
- Logging directories for Linux platforms
- Logging folders for Windows platforms
- Logging folders for multi-stream restore
- Exclude list is not working during backup
- Restore from a snapshot fails with status 133
- Backup from snapshot jobs do not start after the snapshot job completes successfully
- Backup from snapshot fails with error 50
- Backup from snapshot parent job fails with error 4213: Snapshot import failed
- Backup host pool creation fails with the error "Failed to fetch host list"
- Snapshot job fails and the snapshot command does not recognize the volume name
- Accelerator enabled incremental backup of NetApp NAS volume
- Snapshot method: Auto
- Backup from snapshot jobs for NAS-Data-Protection policy fail with error 4213
- A full VCT-enabled indexing job runs, when followed by a non-VCT indexing job with a backup host prior to version to 10.3
- Backup from snapshot jobs for NAS data protection policy fail with error 927
- Error code: 930: No supported media server is available in the All_Media_Server_Pool to use to backup the NAS shares.
- Restore from NAS array volume fails with the status: 174 Media manager - system error occurred.
- NAS job fails with the error: Crawler process timed out after 600 seconds waiting for streams to attach with shared memory.
- D-NAS backup fails with the error: The file system crawler process timed-out waiting for streams to attach with shared memory. (3003)
- Isilon backup from snapshot failed with the Snapshot cannot be mounted error.
- Discovery and snapshot operations fail with the errors 156 and 1542
- Section III. Using NDMP
- Introduction to NetBackup for NDMP
- About NetBackup for NDMP
- About Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP)
- Types of NDMP backup
- About NDMP policies in NetBackup
- About NetBackup storage units
- About assigning tape drives to different hosts
- About the NDMP backup process
- About the NDMP restore process
- About Direct Access Recovery (DAR)
- Snapshot Client assistance
- About NDMP multiplexing
- About NDMP support for Replication Director
- Limitations of Replication Director with NDMP
- About NDMP support for NetApp clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT)
- Installation Notes for NetBackup for NDMP
- Configuring NDMP backup to NDMP-attached devices
- About configuring NDMP-attached devices
- Authorizing NetBackup access to a NAS (NDMP) host
- About access for three-way backups and remote NDMP
- About Media and Device Management configuration
- Using the Device Configuration Wizard to configure an NDMP filer
- About creating an NDMP policy
- About appropriate host selection for NetApp cDOT backup policies
- Attributes tab options for an NDMP policy
- Schedules tab options for an NDMP policy with Accelerator for NDMP enabled
- About backup types in a schedule for an NDMP policy
- Clients tab options for an NDMP policy
- Backup selection options for an NDMP policy
- About enabling or disabling DAR
- Configuring NetBackup for NDMP in a clustered environment
- Configuring NDMP backup to NetBackup media servers (remote NDMP)
- Configuring NDMP DirectCopy
- Accelerator for NDMP
- Remote NDMP and disk devices
- Using the Shared Storage Option (SSO) with NetBackup for NDMP
- NAS appliance information for NDMP
- About NAS appliances support
- Non-vendor-specific information
- Vendor-specific information
- Dell EMC Isilon
- Dell EMC VNX
- Dell EMC Unity
- EMC Celerra
- Hitachi HDI/VFP
- Hitachi NAS (HNAS)
- HP X9000 NAS
- Huawei OceanStor V3
- IBM System Storage Nxxxx
- NEC Storage NV series
- NetApp
- Using NetBackup with NetApp's Data ONTAP 8.2 cluster mode
- Using a node name as the NDMP client name in all versions of NetBackup
- Using a data Vserver LIF as the NDMP client name in non-CAB-aware versions of NetBackup
- Using a cluster_mgmt vserver LIF as the NDMP client name in non-CAB-aware versions of NetBackup
- Using a cluster_mgmt Vserver LIF as the NDMP client name in CAB-aware versions of NetBackup
- Using NetBackup with NetApp's Data ONTAP 8.2 cluster mode
- Nexenta
- Nexsan
- Oracle Axiom Series
- Oracle Solaris Server
- Stratus V Series
- Backup and restore procedures
- Troubleshooting
- Using NetBackup for NDMP scripts
- About the NetBackup for NDMP scripts
- ndmp_start_notify script (UNIX)
- ndmp_start_notify.cmd script (Microsoft Windows)
- ndmp_end_notify script (UNIX)
- ndmp_end_notify.cmd script (Microsoft Windows)
- ndmp_start_path_notify script (UNIX)
- ndmp_start_path_notify.cmd script (Microsoft Windows)
- ndmp_end_path_notify script (UNIX)
- ndmp_end_path_notify.cmd script (Microsoft Windows)
- ndmp_moving_path_notify script (UNIX)
- ndmp_moving_path_notify.cmd script (Microsoft Windows)
- Introduction to NetBackup for NDMP
Index from snapshot operation in an SLP
The Index from snapshot operation indexes the contents of existing snapshots. When NetBackup indexes a snapshot, it creates an image catalog file in the NetBackup catalog for each snapshot. The presence of an image catalog file assists the user when a file needs to be restored from the snapshot, as described in the table.
Table: Restore operation
Type of restore | Where performed? | Description | Requirements |
|---|---|---|---|
Live browse restore | NetBackup Backup, Archive, and Restore interface | You can navigate the directory structure to locate and select the files for restoration. | During a live browse restore, NetBackup automatically mounts the snapshot so that you can see what files it contains. Mounting and unmounting the snapshot can be time-consuming. |
The Backup from snapshot operation also creates an image catalog file. An Index from snapshot may not be required if a Backup from snapshot occurs frequently enough for the restore needs in your environment. For example, if the Backup from snapshot runs once per week but file restores are required daily, consider using the Index from snapshot feature.
Snapshot restore requires that the snapshot is mounted, regardless of whether an index from snapshot is performed or not.
Table: Index from snapshot operation characteristics
Characteristic | Description |
|---|---|
Storage unit selection | The Index from snapshot operation does not write data to a storage unit. However, a storage unit selection is needed to select the media server that is to be used to access the snapshot. As a best practice, use the storage unit from the snapshot or replication operation that is the source for this operation. |
Child of | When an Index from snapshot operation appears in an SLP, it must be the child of a snapshot or replication operation. Therefore, select either a snapshot or a replication operation in the SLP when adding an Index from snapshot operation. |
Source for | While an Index from snapshot operation cannot be the source for any operation, a replication operation can follow it. |
Hierarchy notes | The index from snapshot operation can consume system resources and requires that each snapshot is mounted to create the image catalog file. See Determining where and when the Index from snapshot operation occurs. |
Job type | An Index from snapshot operation generates an job in the . |
Window | An SLP window can be created for an Index from snapshot operation. |
Consider the following items before using the Index from snapshot operation:
Standard, NAS-Data-Protection, and VMware backup policy types support the use of storage lifecycle policies that contain the Index from snapshot operation.