Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Administrator's Guide
- Overview
- About NetBackup appliances
- About the Primary 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
- Manage > Storage > Shares
- About Universal Shares
- Manage > Storage > Universal Shares
- Checking partition details
- Resizing a partition
- Resize dialog
- Troubleshooting resize-related issues
- Moving a partition
- Move 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 Copilot functionality and Share management
- About Optimized Shares and the Optimized Share Reserve
- Creating a Share
- Editing a Share
- Deleting a Share
- Moving a Share
- Creating the Optimized Share Reserve
- Deleting the Optimized Share Reserve
- Viewing Share information from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- NFS export options
- Mounting a Universal Share
- 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
- About the Migration Utility
- Software release updates for NetBackup Appliances
- About installing EEBs
- About installing NetBackup Administration Console and client software
- Manage > Additional Servers
- Manage > Certificates
- Manage > File Manager
- Manage > High Availability
- 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
- About high availability configuration
- About data erasure
- Understanding the NetBackup appliance settings
- About modifying the appliance settings
- Settings > Notifications
- Settings > Network
- 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 > User Management
- Settings > Password Management
- Troubleshooting
- Deduplication pool catalog backup and recovery
- Index
Creating a protection point for a universal share
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 an MSDP 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:
To create a protection point policy for a universal share
- Create a universal share on an existing MSDP storage server.
See Creating a Universal Share from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console.
- 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.
- Create a policy using with the NetBackup web UI.
- On the Attributes tab, select Universal-Share from the Policy type list.
For the Policy Storage, you must use the storage unit that hosts the universal share. You must create one if one does not exist.
If multiple storage servers are configured with universal shares, each of the storage servers should be configured with its own specific policy. This configuration ensures that the universal shares on that storage server are protected.
- Under Destination, select storage unit from the Policy storage list.
See Policy storage (policy attribute) in NetBackup Administrator's Guide Volume I for more information about policy storage setting.
The storage unit for universal share policy must be in the same disk pool volume where the universal share is created.
Note:
If primary server or MSDP storage server is running NetBackup 10.0.1 or later, media server must also be 10.0.1 or later.
- 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 desired client.
Universal share is an agentless technology, so the client name that is specified is used only for cataloging purposes. You can enter a NetBackup Appliance, NetBackup Virtual Appliance, Flex Appliance media server application instance, or MSDP BYO server name or a host where universal share is mounted. The client name can be a short name, Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN), or IP address.
- On Backup Selections tab, enter the path of the universal share.
You can find the export path from the Universal share details page NetBackup web UI: Storage > Storage Configuration > Universal Share. For example:
/mnt/vpfs_shares/3cc7/3cc77559-64f8-4ceb-be90-3e242b89f5e9You can use the NEW_STREAM directive if you require multistream backups.
You can also use the BACKUP X USING Y directive, which allows cataloging under a different directory than the universal share path. For example: BACKUP /demo/database1 USING /mnt/vpfs_shares/3cc7/3cc77559-64f8-4ceb-be90-3e242b89f5e9. In this example, the backup will be cataloged under /demo/database1.
- 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 backup copies from local LSU or cloud LSU with web UI or NetBackup Instant Access APIs.
For information about NetBackup APIs, see the following website:
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