Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Administrator's Guide
- Overview
- About NetBackup appliances
- About the Master Server role
- About the Media Server role
- About accessing the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- About the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- About appliance console components
- About the NetBackup Appliance Web Console login page
- NetBackup appliance home page
- Common tasks in NetBackup Appliance
- About the NetBackup appliance documentation
- Monitoring the NetBackup appliance
- About monitoring the NetBackup appliance
- About hardware monitoring and alerts
- About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup Appliance
- Managing a NetBackup appliance from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- About the Manage views
- About storage configuration
- Manage > Storage
- Checking partition details
- Resizing a partition
- Resize dialog
- Troubleshooting resize-related issues
- Moving a partition
- Move <partition> dialog
- Moving the MSDP partition from a base disk to an expansion disk for optimum performance
- Scanning storage devices from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- Adding the storage space from a newly available disk
- Removing an existing storage disk
- Monitoring the progress of storage manipulation tasks
- Scanning storage devices using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- About viewing storage space information using the Show command
- About storage email alerts
- About appliance supported tape devices
- About configuring Host parameters for your appliance
- Manage > Appliance Restore
- Manage > License
- Software release updates for NetBackup Appliances
- About installing an EEB
- About installing NetBackup Administration Console and client software
- Manage > Additional Servers
- Manage > Certificates
- Managing NetBackup appliance using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- Expanding the bandwidth on the NetBackup Appliance
- About configuring the maximum transmission unit size
- About OpenStorage plugin installation
- About mounting a remote NFS
- About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
- About NetBackup administrator capabilities
- Running NetBackup commands from the NetBackup Appliance
- Creating a NetBackup touch file from the NetBackup Appliance
- About NetBackup operating system commands
- Best practices for running NetBackup commands from the NetBackup Appliance
- Known limitations of running NetBackup commands from the NetBackup Appliance
- Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
- Deleting NetBackup administrator user accounts
- Viewing NetBackup administrator user accounts
- About NetBackup administrator capabilities
- About Auto Image Replication between appliances
- About forwarding logs to an external server
- Understanding the NetBackup appliance settings
- About modifying the appliance settings
- Settings > Notifications
- Settings > Network
- VLAN configuration for NetBackup Appliances
- Settings > Network > Network Settings
- Settings > Network > Fibre Transport
- Settings > Network > Host
- About IPv4-IPv6-based network support
- Settings > Date and Time
- Settings > Authentication
- About configuring user authentication
- About authorizing NetBackup appliance users
- Settings > Authentication
- Settings > Authentication > LDAP
- Adding an LDAP server configuration
- Importing an LDAP server configuration
- Setting the SSL certification
- Exporting an LDAP configuration
- Unconfiguring LDAP user authentication
- Enabling the LDAP server configuration
- Disabling the LDAP server configuration
- Deleting LDAP configuration parameters
- Adding LDAP configuration parameters
- Adding an LDAP attribute mapping
- Deleting an LDAP attribute mapping
- Settings > Authentication > Active Directory
- Settings > Authentication > Kerberos-NIS
- Settings > Authentication > User Management
- Settings > Password Management
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting and tuning appliance from the Appliance Diagnostics Center
- Viewing log files using the Support command
- Where to find NetBackup Appliance log files using the Browse command
- About disaster recovery
- Gathering device logs on a NetBackup appliance
- Setting a NetBackup 5330 storage shelf component to the Service Allowed mode
- Deduplication pool catalog backup and recovery
Manage > Host > Lifecycle options
You can set the lifecycle parameters using the Manage > Host menu in the NetBackup Appliance Web Console. The Host page displays the Lifecycle tab. You can view and change the lifecycle parameters using this tab.
Table: Lifecycle parameters describes the lifecycle parameters that are displayed.
Table: Lifecycle parameters
Parameter | Description |
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Cleanup session interval | Enter the time interval after which the deleted life cycle policies should be cleaned up. The default value is 24 hours. Select the unit to measure the time from the drop-down list. You can select from the following options:
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Duplication group criteria | Enter the duplication group criteria that is used to define how batches are created. The default value is 1. |
Image extended retry period | Enter the interval period till NetBackup waits before an image copy is added to the next duplication job. The default value is 2 hours. Select the unit to measure the time from the drop-down list. You can select from the following options:
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Job submission interval | Set the frequency of job submission for all operations. The default value is 5 minutes. By default, all jobs are processed before more jobs are submitted. Increase this interval to allow NetBackup to submit more jobs before all jobs are processed. Select the unit to measure the time from the drop-down list. You can select from the following options:
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Max size per duplication job | Enter the maximum size up to which the batch of images is allowed to grow. The default value is 100 GB. Select the unit to measure the size from the drop-down list. You can select from the following options:
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Force interval for small jobs | Enter the time to determine how old any image in a group can become before the batch is submitted as a duplication job. The default value is 30 minutes. Select the unit to measure the time from the drop-down list. You can select from the following options:
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Min size per duplication job | Enter the minimum size up to which the batch of images should reach before a duplication job is run for the entire batch. The default value is 8 GB. Select the unit to measure the size from the drop-down list. You can select from the following options:
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Replica metadata cleanup timer | Enter the number of days after which the Import Manager stops trying to import the image. The default value is 0 hours. Select the unit to measure the time from the drop-down list. You can select from the following options:
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Tape resource multiplier | Enter the multiplier for the number of concurrently active duplication jobs that can access a single storage unit. The default value is 2. |
Version cleanup delay | Enter the number of hours to determine how much time must pass since an inactive version was the active version. The default value is 14 days. Select the unit to measure the time from the drop-down list. You can select from the following options:
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Note:
The Import Extended Retry Session Timer, Import Session Timer, and Duplication Session Interval parameters have been removed in version 2.6. A new parameter named Job Submission Interval has been introduced.