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NetBackup™ for KVM Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (11.1)
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      About NetBackup for KVM
  2. Installation and configuration overview
    1. Planning the installation for NetBackup for KVM
      1.  
        Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
      2.  
        NetBackup server and client requirements
    2.  
      NetBackup configuration overview
  3. Managing KVM hosts
    1.  
      Add KVM hosts
    2. About KVM discovery
      1.  
        Change the autodiscovery frequency of KVM assets
      2.  
        Discover KVM host assets manually
    3.  
      Browse KVM assets
    4.  
      Validate a KVM host
    5.  
      Remove a KVM host
    6.  
      Change resource limits for KVM resource types
  4. Configuring RBAC roles for KVM administrators
    1.  
      RBAC roles for the KVM administrator
    2.  
      Assigning permissions at specific KVM object levels
  5. Protecting KVM virtual machines
    1. About configuring a backup policy for KVM
      1.  
        Limitations for KVM backups
    2.  
      About automatic virtual machine selection
    3.  
      Add a policy for KVM
    4.  
      About policy attributes
    5.  
      Schedule properties
    6.  
      Add KVM hosts to a policy
    7. Configure a query to select KVM virtual machines for backup
      1.  
        Query builder reference for KVM virtual machines
      2.  
        Use Advanced mode to create a query for virtual machine selection
      3.  
        Example queries to select VMs for backup
      4.  
        Test a VM query
      5.  
        About the Reuse VM selection query results option
    8. Backup options on the KVM attributes tab
      1.  
        Optimizations options (KVM)
      2.  
        Primary VM identifier options (KVM)
      3.  
        NetBackup character restrictions for the Primary VM identifier
      4.  
        Existing snapshot handling options (KVM)
      5.  
        KVM - Advanced attributes
    9.  
      View the protection status of KVM virtual machines
    10.  
      Perform a manual backup
  6. Recovering KVM virtual machines
    1.  
      Considerations and limitations for KVM recovery
    2.  
      About the pre-recovery check
    3.  
      Recover a KVM virtual machine
  7. Troubleshooting KVM backups and recovery
    1.  
      NetBackup logging for KVM
    2.  
      Configuring VxMS logging
    3.  
      Troubleshooting a KVM discovery or a validate operation

NetBackup logging for KVM

For log messages about KVM backups or KVM restores, see the following NetBackup log directories.

Table:

Log directory

Contains the messages on

Resides on

install_path\NetBackup\logs\bpbrm

Backup and restore

Primary or media server

install_path\NetBackup\logs\bptm

Backup and restore

Media server

install_path\NetBackup\logs\bpfis

Snapshot creation and backup

KVM host

install_path\NetBackup\logs\bpcd

Snapshot creation and backup

KVM host

install_path\NetBackup\logs\bpbkar

Backup

KVM host

install_path\NetBackup\logs\bprd

Restore

Primary server

install_path\NetBackup\logs\bpVMutil

KVM host configuration, discovery, and restores

KVM host

install_path\NetBackup\logs\nbproxy

Policy configuration

KVM host

install_path\NetBackup\logs\ncfnbcs (originator ID 366)

ncfnbcs uses unified logging. See the NetBackup Logging Reference Guide for information on how to use unified logs.

Automatic virtual machine selection and KVM host configuration and discovery

Primary server, KVM host

install_path\NetBackup\logs\ncfnbrestore (originator ID 357)

ncfnbrestore uses unified logging. See the NetBackup Logging Reference Guide for information on how to use unified logs.

Restore

KVM host

Windows: install_path\NetBackup\logs\vxms

Linux: /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/vxms

File mapping during backup

KVM host

See Configuring VxMS logging .

Note: The use of VxMS logging can reduce the performance of the backup host.

install_path\NetBackup\logs\nbwebservice

KVM host configuration and discovery

Primary server

Note:

Except for unified logging directories, these log directories must already exist in order for logging to occur. If these directories do not exist, create them.

To create most of these log directories, run the following command on the NetBackup servers and KVM hosts:

Windows:install_path\NetBackup\logs\mklogdir.bat

UNIX (on primary or media servers):/opt/openv/netbackup/logs/mklogdir

See Configuring VxMS logging ..

More detail is available on snapshot logs and logging levels. See the NetBackup NAS Administrator's Guide. A broader discussion of logging is available. See the NetBackup Logging Reference Guide.