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

Recovering a fingerprint database

To recover a fingerprint database, you must be aware of the following:

  • The destination client for the fingerprint database restores

  • The timestamp to perform a point-in-time recovery of the fingerprint database

Use the following procedure to recover a fingerprint database in Enterprise Vault:

To recover the fingerprint database

  1. Identify the name of vault store group whose fingerprint database needs to be restored.
  2. Identify the vault stores in the chosen vault store group. You can obtain this information by browsing Vault Administration Console.
  3. Identify the Enterprise Vault servers that are a part of the vault store group whose fingerprint database you want to restore.
  4. Install the operating system and any other required applications (including the Enterprise Vault application) on the all Enterprise Vault servers within the vault store group.
  5. Stop the Enterprise Vault services that are running on the Enterprise Vault servers that host the vault stores in a vault store group. The fingerprint database to be restored is associated with that vault store group. The Enterprise Vault server is seen as a Computer in the properties of a vault store in the Vault Administration Console.
  6. Before restoring the fingerprint database, get the latest backup time of the open, closed, and ready partitions, and the vault store databases that comprise the vault store group of the fingerprint database you want to restore. (This backup timestamp is referred to as the timestamp of the vault store backup. This timestamp is the backup time of the images that were restored using the Enterprise Vault agent.) All partitions and vault store database images may not have same backup time. Therefore, you should use the most recent backup time as the vault store backup timestamp and then start the restore of the fingerprint database.

    See Restoring Enterprise Vault SQL database components.

    If there are multiple fingerprint databases, then you should repeat this step for each fingerprint database.

  7. Run the Enterprise Vault recovery tools to repair the consistency of the entire vault store group. That helps to bring the partitions, the vault store database, and the fingerprint database to a consistent state.

    Note:

    Veritas recommends that you run Enterprise Vault tools with the guidance of Enterprise Vault Support.

  8. If there is no fingerprint database backup after a vault store backup timestamp, restore all of the available fingerprint database backups from the last full backup and any incremental backups. Run the Enterprise Vault recovery tools to recover any missing entries of the fingerprint database. If you do not add the missing entries, you can encounter a data loss if the items are expired or deleted from Enterprise Vault archives.
  9. Restart the services on the Enterprise Vault servers.