Veritas NetBackup™ for Enterprise Vault™ Agent Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.2, 8.1.2, 8.1.1)
  1. Introduction to NetBackup Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      About Enterprise Vault
    2.  
      About the NetBackup Enterprise Vault Agent
    3.  
      About the Enterprise Vault Agent and the backup components
    4.  
      Enterprise Vault agent features
    5.  
      Enterprise Vault agent requirements
  2. About NetBackup Enterprise Vault agent installation requirements
    1.  
      Installation requirements for NetBackup Enterprise Vault agent
    2.  
      Verifying Enterprise Vault agent operating system compatibility
    3.  
      NetBackup server and client software requirements
    4.  
      About Enterprise Vault agent installation requirements in a cluster
    5.  
      Configuring Enterprise Vault Agent to protect Enterprise Vault databases
    6.  
      Adding the Enterprise Vault agent license key
    7. Configuration requirements for upgrading the Enterprise Vault agent
      1.  
        Configuring the policy directives after upgrading NetBackup and Enterprise Vault
  3. Configuration
    1.  
      About the Windows and Java user interfaces
    2.  
      Specifying a logon account for the Enterprise Vault server
    3.  
      About VSS-based snapshot configuration
    4.  
      Configuring the local media server for Enterprise Vault backup
    5.  
      Configuration requirements for an Enterprise Vault backup policy
    6.  
      Adding a new Enterprise Vault policy
    7.  
      Enterprise Vault backup policy attributes
    8.  
      Adding schedules to an Enterprise Vault policy
    9.  
      About the types of Enterprise Vault backups
    10.  
      Creating a backup selections list
    11.  
      Adding a client to a policy
  4. About features provided by Enterprise Vault for a backup provider
    1.  
      About Enterprise Vault quiescence before a backup
    2.  
      About quiescing and unquiescing Enterprise Vault services
    3.  
      About granular quiescence
    4.  
      About managing safety copies and backups
    5.  
      About the partition secure notification file
    6.  
      About the archive bit
  5. Performing backups of Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      About Enterprise Vault directives and what data they back up
    2.  
      Manually backing up Enterprise Vault resources
    3.  
      Canceling an Enterprise Vault backup job from the Activity Monitor
  6. Performing restores of Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      Important notes about Enterprise Vault data restore
    2.  
      Stopping the administrative services on Enterprise Vault servers
    3.  
      About the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface
    4.  
      Viewing backup data using the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
    5.  
      Restoring Enterprise Vault data
    6.  
      About the Enterprise Vault restore options on the General tab
    7.  
      About the Enterprise Vault Database Settings tab
    8.  
      Specifying the server, clients, and policy type for restores
    9.  
      About restoring Enterprise Vault file system data
    10.  
      Restoring an Enterprise Vault file system component
    11. About restoring Enterprise Vault SQL databases
      1.  
        About backup image restore sets
    12.  
      Restoring Enterprise Vault SQL database components
  7. Disaster recovery
    1.  
      Disaster recovery requirements for Enterprise Vault server
    2.  
      About disaster recovery of an Enterprise Vault site
    3.  
      Recovering a directory database
    4.  
      Recovering an auditing database
    5.  
      Recovering an FSA Reporting database
    6.  
      Recovering a Monitoring database
    7.  
      Recovering index locations
    8.  
      Recovering an Enterprise Vault vault store group
    9.  
      Recovering a fingerprint database
    10.  
      Recovering a vault store database
    11.  
      Recovering vault store partition
    12.  
      Recovering Enterprise Vault partitions
    13.  
      Recovering an Enterprise Vault server
    14.  
      Recovering an Enterprise Vault server on a different system
  8. Enterprise Vault Agent support for Enterprise Vault
    1. Policy configuration for Enterprise Vault
      1.  
        Open partition, vault store database, and fingerprint database consistencies
      2.  
        Closed and ready partition consistencies
      3.  
        Index location consistencies
      4.  
        Directory database consistencies
    2. Notes about Enterprise Vault 10.0 backups
      1.  
        Exclude file list for index locations
      2.  
        Exclude file list for vault partitions
    3.  
      Excluding files from the exclude list
    4.  
      About planning backup schedules
    5.  
      About hosts for Enterprise Vault policies
    6.  
      About Enterprise Vault tools
    7. About Enterprise Vault agent backups
      1.  
        Privileges for Enterprise Vault backup
    8. About Enterprise Vault agent restores
      1.  
        Changing the socket buffer size for large restores
    9.  
      Useful tips about Enterprise Vault agent
    10. Enterprise Vault agent functionality and support for Enterprise Vault
      1.  
        Differential incremental backup taken after a restore fails for Enterprise Vault
  9. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      About troubleshooting
    2.  
      About debug logging
    3.  
      How to enable debug logging
    4.  
      Setting the debug level
    5.  
      About status reports
    6.  
      About operational reports
    7.  
      About progress reports
    8. About NetBackup status-related troubleshooting information
      1.  
        NetBackup status code 2
      2.  
        NetBackup status code 13
      3.  
        NetBackup status code 39
      4.  
        NetBackup status code 59
      5.  
        NetBackup status code 69
      6. NetBackup status code 156
        1.  
          About the VSS_E_BAD_STATE snapshot error
        2.  
          About the VSS_E_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE snapshot error
      7.  
        NetBackup status code 1800
  10. Appendix A. NetBackup Enterprise Vault Migrator
    1.  
      About the Enterprise Vault Migrator
    2.  
      About configuring a backup policy for migration
    3.  
      About configuring Enterprise Vault for collection and migration
    4.  
      Testing the Enterprise Vault migrator configuration
    5.  
      Setting the recommended DCOM settings
    6. Restoring Enterprise Vault migrated data from NetBackup
      1.  
        Restoring migrated data using the command line interface
      2.  
        Restoring migrated data using a Backup, Archive, and Restore user interface
    7. Troubleshooting the Enterprise Vault migrator
      1.  
        Enterprise Vault migrator version information
      2. About troubleshooting issues with the migrator
        1.  
          Is the data being archived?
        2.  
          Is the data being collected?
        3.  
          Is the migration being configured appropriately?
        4.  
          Is the data being migrated?
      3. About Log Collection
        1.  
          About Enterprise Vault logs
        2.  
          About Enterprise Vault events
        3.  
          About NetBackup logs

About backup image restore sets

Backup images are displayed in the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface. These images correspond to Enterprise Vault file system data or Enterprise Vault SQL databases. The images that you select comprise a backup image restore set.

To perform an Enterprise Vault SQL database restore or a recovery with Point in time (PIT), first determine the time to which you want to restore or recover the database. Next, decide upon the group of backup images that need to be restored in a sequence to restore or recover the database. This group of backup images is called a backup image restore set. A backup image restore set consists of the following images:

Note:

Recovery is only possible with SQL differential (transaction log) backup images.

  • Full backup image: A restore set starts with a full backup image.

  • Cumulative backup image: Add the last, cumulative backup image to the set. Add this image if it occurred between when the full backup image was taken and the time you decided to perform the restore or recovery.

  • Differential backup images: Add the differential backup images that occurred between the last cumulative backup (or full backup if no cumulative backup happened) and the time that you decided to perform the restore or recovery. If you want to perform a recovery with PIT, then include the immediate differential image after the PIT in the restore set.

The following example demonstrates how to determine a backup image restore set in different use cases.

Table: Understanding which backup images to select for a restore demonstrates which backup images you would select to comprise a backup image restore set at any given time instance. Depending on the time you want to restore or recover the database, determines which backup images you must include in the backup image restore set.

Table: Understanding which backup images to select for a restore

Time instance

The backup images that comprise the backup image restore set

t1

Full backup

t2

Full + Differential 1 (PIT)

t3

Full + Differential 1

t4

Full + Differential 1 + Differential 2 (PIT)

t5

Full + Differential 1 + Differential 2

t6

Full + Differential 1 + Differential 2 + Differential 3 (PIT)

t7

Full + Cumulative

t8

Full + Cumulative + Differential 3 (PIT)

t9

Full + Cumulative + Differential 3

t10

Full + Cumulative + Differential 3 (SQL tail-log backup)

The following examples explain which backup images you must select in the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface:

  • Example 1:

    To restore an SQL database to time instance t3, your backup image restore set must consist of the following backup images:

    • The full backup image with the options Take database offline and Leave database Non-operational or Leave database Read-only enabled.

    • The first differential backup image with the option Leave database operational enabled.

  • Example 2:

    To recover an SQL database with PIT at time instance t8, your backup image restore set must consist of the following backup images:

    • The full backup image with the options Take database offline and Leave database Non-operational or Leave database Read-only enabled.

    • The last cumulative-backup image with the option Leave database Non-operational or Leave database Read-only enabled.

    • The third differential backup image with the option Leave database operational and Point-in-time recovery enabled.

  • Example 3:

    To recover an SQL database at time instance t10 which is after the last differential backup, you must use Microsoft's SQL tail-log mechanism. For more information about performing a tail-log backup, visit Microsoft's website and search for more information on this topic.

    In this example the backup image restore set would include the following images:

    • The full backup image with the options Take database offline and Leave database Non-operational or Leave database Read-only enabled.

    • The last cumulative-backup image with the option Leave database Non-operational or Leave database Read-only enabled.

    • The third differential backup image with the option Leave database operational and Point-in-time recovery enabled.

    • Perform a tail-log backup. See Microsoft's website for instructions on how to perform this type of backup.