Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Administrator's Guide

The following describes each of the checkpoint types.

• Pre-upgrade checkpoint

  This checkpoint is created before a software upgrade is performed.

• Post-upgrade checkpoint

  This checkpoint is created after you have upgraded your appliance to a newer software version. You may use this checkpoint if you have a need to roll back your appliance to correct a failure.

• User-directed checkpoint

  You are responsible for creating this checkpoint. You can create a checkpoint at any time. Only one user-directed checkpoint can exist at any given time. If a user-directed checkpoint already exists and you create a new checkpoint, the new checkpoint overwrites the existing checkpoint. However, before you can create the new checkpoint, a message appears in the Existing appliance restore checkpoints field and informs you that if you create a new user-directed checkpoint, the new checkpoint overwrites any existing checkpoint.

• You can also monitor the status of the checkpoint creation process from this field.

This field lists all of the components that are included in the checkpoint. The following list describes these components:

• The appliance operating system

• The appliance software

• The NetBackup software

• The network configuration

• Any previously applied software updates

• Items not included in the checkpoint:

  • The NetBackup catalog on the primary server appliance is not included.

  • The backup data is not included.

Validate

• When you click the Validate button you initiate a validation process that ensures the server is running and in a state to create a new checkpoint.

• A message appears after the validation is run that informs you whether the validation was successful or not.

  • If the validation process is successful the following occurs:

    • The Create button becomes active.

    • The following message appears:

      Checkpoint validation is complete. Click Create to create the new checkpoint.

• If the validation process is not successful the following occurs:

  • The following message appears:

    Checkpoint validation was unsuccessful. The checkpoint cannot be created. Click here for more information.

  • You can click a link within the message to view more information about the error details.

Create

• The Create button becomes active after the checkpoint validation completes successfully. Click Create to begin the checkpoint process.

• When you create this checkpoint, it replaces any current user-directed checkpoint if one exists.