Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
- Section I. About NetBackup
- Section II. Configuring hosts
- Configuring Host Properties
- About the NetBackup Host Properties
- Access Control properties
- Bandwidth properties
- Busy File Settings properties
- Client Attributes properties
- Client Settings properties for UNIX clients
- Client Settings properties for Windows clients
- Data Classification properties
- Default Job Priorities properties
- Encryption properties
- Exchange properties
- Exclude Lists properties
- Fibre Transport properties
- Firewall properties
- General Server properties
- Global Attributes properties
- Logging properties
- Login Banner Configuration properties
- Media properties
- Network Settings properties
- Port Ranges properties
- Preferred Network properties
- Resilient Network properties
- Restore Failover properties
- Retention Periods properties
- Scalable Storage properties
- Servers properties
- SharePoint properties
- SLP Parameters properties
- Throttle Bandwidth properties
- Universal Settings properties
- User Account Settings properties
- Configuration options for NetBackup servers
- ECA_CERT_PATH for NetBackup servers and clients
- PREFERRED_NETWORK option for NetBackup servers
- THROTTLE_BANDWIDTH option for NetBackup servers
- Configuration options for NetBackup clients
- IGNORE_XATTR option for NetBackup clients
- VXSS_NETWORK option for NetBackup clients
- Configuring server groups
- Enabling support for NAT clients in NetBackup
- Configuring host credentials
- Managing media servers
- Configuring Host Properties
- Section III. Configuring storage
- Configuring disk storage
- Configuring robots and tape drives
- About configuring robots and tape drives in NetBackup
- Adding a robot to NetBackup manually
- Managing robots
- Adding a tape drive to NetBackup manually
- Adding a tape drive path
- Correlating tape drives and device files on UNIX hosts
- Managing tape drives
- Performing device diagnostics
- Configuring tape media
- About NetBackup volume pools
- About WORM media
- About adding volumes
- Configuring media settings
- Media settings options
- Media type (new media setting)
- Media settings options
- About barcodes
- Configuring barcode rules
- Configuring media ID generation rules
- Adding volumes by using the Actions menu
- Configuring media type mappings
- Managing volumes
- About exchanging a volume
- About frozen media
- About injecting and ejecting volumes
- About rescanning and updating barcodes
- About labeling NetBackup volumes
- About moving volumes
- About recycling a volume
- Managing volume pools
- Managing volume groups
- Inventorying robots
- About showing a robot's contents
- About updating the NetBackup volume configuration
- About the vmphyinv physical inventory utility
- Configuring storage units
- About the Storage utility
- Creating a storage unit
- About storage unit settings
- Absolute pathname to directory or absolute pathname to volume setting for storage units
- Maximum concurrent jobs storage unit setting
- Staging backups
- Creating a basic disk staging storage unit
- Configuring storage unit groups
- Section IV. Configuring storage lifecycle policies (SLPs)
- Configuring storage lifecycle policies
- Storage operations
- Index From Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Retention types for SLP operations
- Capacity managed retention type for SLP operations
- Storage lifecycle policy options
- Using a storage lifecycle policy to create multiple copies
- Storage lifecycle policy versions
- Section V. Configuring backups
- Creating backup policies
- Planning for policies
- Policy Attributes tab
- Policy storage (policy attribute)
- Policy volume pool (policy attribute)
- Take checkpoints every __ minutes (policy attribute)
- Backup Network Drives (policy attribute)
- Cross mount points (policy attribute)
- Encryption (policy attribute)
- Collect true image restore information (policy attribute) with and without move detection
- Use Accelerator (policy attribute)
- Enable optimized backup of Windows deduplicated volumes
- Use Replication Director (policy attributes)
- Schedule Attributes tab
- Type of backup (schedule attribute)
- Frequency (schedule attribute)
- Multiple copies (schedule attribute)
- Retention (schedule attribute)
- Media multiplexing (schedule attribute)
- Start Window tab
- Include Dates tab
- How open schedules affect calendar-based and frequency-based schedules
- About the Clients tab
- Backup Selections tab
- Adding backup selections to a policy
- Verifying the Backup Selections list
- Pathname rules for UNIX client backups
- About the directives on the Backup Selections list
- ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive
- Files that are excluded from backups by default
- Disaster Recovery tab
- Active Directory granular backups and recovery
- Synthetic backups
- Using the multiple copy synthetic backups method
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- Parts of the NetBackup catalog
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- Archiving the catalog and restoring from the catalog archive
- Estimating catalog space requirements
- About the NetBackup relational database
- About the NetBackup relational database (NBDB) installation
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on Windows
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on UNIX
- Post-installation tasks
- About backup and recovery procedures
- Managing backup images
- Creating backup policies
- Section VI. Deployment Management
- Deployment Management
- Adding or changing schedules in a deployment policy
- Deployment Management
- Section VII. Configuring replication
- About NetBackup replication
- About NetBackup Auto Image Replication
- Viewing the replication topology for Auto Image Replication
- About the storage lifecycle policies required for Auto Image Replication
- Removing or replacing replication relationships in an Auto Image Replication configuration
- About NetBackup replication
- Section VIII. Monitoring and reporting
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- About the Jobs tab
- About the Daemons tab
- About the Processes tab
- About the Drives tab
- About the jobs database
- About pending requests and actions
- Reporting in NetBackup
- Using the Logging Assistant
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Section IX. Administering NetBackup
- Management topics
- Accessing a remote server
- Using the NetBackup Remote Administration Console
- Run-time configuration options for the NetBackup Administration Console
- About improving NetBackup performance
- About adjusting time zones in the NetBackup Administration console
- Alternate server restores
- About performing alternate server restores
- Managing client backups and restores
- About client-redirected restores
- Powering down and rebooting NetBackup servers
- About Granular Recovery Technology
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2012, 2012 R2, or 2016
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2008 and 2008 R2
Policy type (policy attribute)
The NBU-Catalog is not used for client backups.
attribute determines the purpose of the policy. Select a policy type from the list. The policy type you select typically depends on the type of client to be backed up. Some policy types are not used for client backups. For example,The list of policy types changes depending on the NetBackup options that have been installed. Each policy type offers a unique combination of attributes. When you select a policy type, only the attributes that apply to that policy type are active.
You can change the policy type of an existing policy. However, the schedules for the policy may become invalid. If the schedules become invalid, NetBackup displays a warning message and then deletes the invalid schedules or changes the schedules to an equivalent type.
When you change the policy type of an existing policy, other selections or features of the policy may become invalid as well.
Table: NetBackup policy types describes all the types of NetBackup policies.
Table: NetBackup policy types
Policy type | Description |
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BigData | Use as a policy type to schedule and run a job for big data applications. For example, Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) or Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor. This policy type requires the Enterprise Client license. See Creating a BigData policy. For information about the plug-ins that NetBackup supports, and which are available to download and install, see: |
DataTools-SQL-BackTrack (UNIX only) | Use for the policies that contain only clients with the NetBackup for SQL-BackTrack agent. For information on setting up this policy type, see the guide for this option. |
DataStore | This policy type is reserved for use by Veritas or its partners to provide agents for new applications or databases. |
DB2 | Use for the policies that contain only clients with the NetBackup for DB2 agent. For information on setting up this policy type, see the guide for this option. |
Enterprise-Vault | Use as a policy type to schedule and run an Enterprise Vault job. |
FlashBackup (UNIX only) |
Combines the speed of raw-partition backups with the ability to restore individual files. This policy type applies to UNIX clients only. Requires the Enterprise Client license. For information on setting up this type of policy, see the NetBackup Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide. |
FlashBackup-Windows (Windows only) |
Combines the speed of raw-partition backups with the ability to restore individual files. This policy type applies to Windows clients only. Requires the Enterprise Client license. For information on setting up this type of policy, see the NetBackup Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide. |
Hyper-V | To back up the virtual machines that reside on Windows Hyper-V servers, by means of on-host or off-host backups. This policy type requires the Enterprise Client license. Users can upgrade pertinent policies to the Hyper-Vpolicy type using one of the following methods:
For information on setting up this type of policy, see the NetBackup for Hyper-V Guide. |
Informix-On-BAR (UNIX only) | Use for the policies that contain only clients with the NetBackup for Informix agent. For information on setting up this policy type, see the guide for this option. |
Lotus-Notes | Use for the policies that contain only clients with the NetBackup for Lotus Notes agent. For information on setting up this policy type, see the guide for this option. |
MS-Exchange-Server (Windows only) | Use for the policies that contain only clients with the NetBackup for Exchange Server agent. For information on setting up this policy type, see the guide for this option. This policy type applies to Windows clients only. |
MS-SharePoint (Windows only) | Use to configure a policy NetBackup for SharePoint Server. This policy type applies to Windows clients only. |
MS-SQL-Server | Use for the policies that contain only clients with the NetBackup for SQL Server agent. For information on setting up this policy type, see the guide for this option. |
MS-Windows | Use for the policies that contain only Windows clients of supported Windows operating system levels. Standard and MS-Windows policy types are the only policy types that support the following options:
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NBU-Catalog | |
NDMP | Use for the policies that contain only clients with the NetBackup NDMP option. This policy type is available only when the NetBackup NDMP is installed and licensed. For information on setting up this policy type, see the guide for this option. |
Oracle | Use for the policies that contain only clients with the NetBackup for Oracle agent. For information on setting up this policy type, see the guide for this option. |
SAP | Use for the policies that contain only clients with the NetBackup SAP Agent. For information on setting up this policy type, see the guide for this option. |
Standard | Use for UNIX clients (including supported Mac clients), except for those clients that are covered by specific products, such as Oracle. Standard and MS-Windows policy types are the only policy types that support the following options:
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Sybase | Use for the policies that contain only clients with the NetBackup for Sybase agent. For information on setting up this policy type, see the guide for this option. |
Vault | Use as a policy type to schedule and run a Vault job. This policy type is available only when Vault is licensed. |
VMware | For backup of any virtual machines that reside on VMware vSphere servers, by means of off-host backups. This policy type requires the Enterprise Client license. Users can upgrade pertinent policies to the VMware policy type using one of the following methods:
For information on setting up this type of policy, see the NetBackup for VMware Guide. |
For more details on off-host backups, refer to the NetBackup Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide.
For information about off-host backups, see the NetBackup Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide.