NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- About snapshot management
- About snapshot basics
- Off-host backup overview
- Off-host backup methods
- Snapshot Manager requirements
- Installation
- Policy configuration
- Selecting the snapshot method
- Configuration parameters for Snapshot Manager
- About using alternate client backup
- Configuring alternate client backup
- Policy configuration tips
- About disabling snapshots
- NAS snapshot configuration
- FlashBackup configuration
- Instant Recovery configuration
- About Instant Recovery
- About sizing the cache for Instant Recovery copy-on-write snapshots
- About configuring VxVM
- About storage lifecycle policies for snapshots
- Configuration of software-based snapshot methods
- Support for Cluster Volume Manager Environments (CVM)
- Configuration of snapshot methods for disk arrays
- About the new disk array snapshot methods
- Disk array configuration tasks
- OS-specific configuration tasks
- About VSS configuration (Windows)
- About EMC CLARiiON arrays
- Configuring NetBackup to access the CLARiiON array
- Configuring a NetBackup policy for a CLARiiON array method
- About EMC Symmetrix arrays
- About configuration for EMC_TimeFinder_Mirror
- About configuration for EMC_TimeFinder_Clone
- About HP EVA arrays
- Verifying connectivity from clients to array using SSSU 5.0
- About IBM DS6000 and DS8000 arrays
- Configuring NetBackup to access the IBM DS6000 or DS8000 array
- About IBM DS4000 array
- About Hitachi SMS/WMS/AMS, USP/NSC, USP-V/VM
- Hitachi array software requirements
- About HP-XP arrays
- About array troubleshooting
- Notes on Media Server and Third-Party Copy methods
- Backup and restore procedures
- About restores from a FlashBackup backup
- Instant Recovery restore features
- About configurations for restore
- About restoring from a disk snapshot
- Snapshot management
- Troubleshooting
- Logging directories for UNIX platforms
- Logging folders for Windows platforms
- FlashBackup and status code 13
- Appendix A. Managing nbu_snap (Solaris)
- Appendix B. Overview of snapshot operations
About Instant Recovery capabilities
The Instant Recovery feature of Snapshot Manager enables high-speed data retrieval from disk by means of the standard NetBackup user interface. Note the following features:
Supports NetBackup clients on Solaris, HP, AIX, Linux, and Windows. The primary server can be on any supported operating system.
Supports NetBackup clients on Linux and Windows. The primary server can be on any supported operating system.
Uses snapshot technologies to create disk images.
Can create a snapshot and a backup to tape or disk, from one policy.
Enables random-access (non-sequential) restores of dispersed files from full backups.
Enables block-level restore and file promotion from VxFS_Checkpoint snapshots (UNIX) and file promotion from NAS_Snapshot. Also enables Fast File Resync from VxVM and FlashSnap snapshots on Windows.
Enables rollback from the backups that were created using the following: VxFS_Checkpoint, VxVM, FlashSnap, NAS_Snapshot, or disk array methods.
Enables rollback from the backups that were created using VSO method.
Can restore to a different path or host.
Provides the resource management by means of a rotation schedule.
Supports Oracle, Microsoft Exchange, DB2, SAP, and SQL-Server databases.
Supports Oracle.
More Information
Giving full server privileges to the media server
Configuring a policy for Instant Recovery
About sizing the cache for Instant Recovery copy-on-write snapshots
Modifying the VxVM or FlashSnap resync options for point in time rollback
Instant Recovery for databases