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Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Last Published: 2020-08-12

Product(s): NetBackup (8.3)

Platform: Linux,UNIX,Windows

Creating a Protection Point for a Universal Share on a NetBackup MSDP storage server

You can create a Protection Point for the data in a Universal Share that lets you manage and protect the data in the share. Creating a Protection Point is accomplished by creating a Universal-Share backup policy.

If a NetBackup storage server is configured with multiple Universal Shares, a single policy can be created for some or all of the shares. You can also create individual policies, one for each share. If multiple storage servers are configured with Universal Shares, each storage servers should be configured with its own specific policy to protect the Universal Shares on that storage server.

More information is available:

See About Universal Shares.

To create a Protection Point policy for a Universal Share on a NetBackup MSDP storage server

Create a Universal Share on an existing MSDP storage server.
For details, see Create a Universal Share in NetBackup Web UI Administrator's Guide.
Mount the exported path of the Universal Share on the storage server.
The Export path is found on the details page of the universal share in the NetBackup web UI: click Storage > Universal Share and then select the universal share to view its details.
Copy your application data to the Universal Share.
Using the NetBackup Administration Console (Java GUI), create a policy. Select Universal-Share on the Attributes tab.
On the Schedules tab, select either FULL or INCR.
Note:
Accelerator backups are not supported or necessary for Universal Shares.
On the Clients tab, enter the name of the storage server where the Universal Share resides.
Note:
Enter the host name of the client where the universal share is mounted. This name is used for cataloging. Although you can enter any name, a best practice is to enter the host short name, Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN), or IP address of the host that has permission to mount the universal share. For database systems, you can enter the host's network ID.
Select the Backup Selections tab and perform the following actions in the order listed:
- (Optional) Add the NEW_STREAM directive if you require multistream backup.
  See NEW_STREAM directive.
- Add the mounted path on the storage server and the exported path of the Universal Share.
  BACKUP /
  - Enter the BACKUP X USING Y directive in the Backup Selections tab. For example: BACKUP / backup_image_name USING universal_share_export_path. You can find the universal_share_export_path in the details of the universal share on the NetBackup web UI.
  You can add multiple shares in a policy. If you want to group several shares into one backup job, use the NEW_STREAM directive.
  See NEW_STREAM directive.
Run the Universal-Share policy.
After the backups are created, you can manage the backups with NetBackup features, such as restore, duplication, Auto Image Replication, and others.
You can instantly access the backups with NetBackup Instant Access APIs.
For information about NetBackup APIs, see the following website:
https://sort.veritas.com/documents
Select NetBackup and then the version at the bottom of the page.