Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Documentation
- Getting to know the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- NetBackup Virtual Appliance product description
- Preparing to deploy the appliance
- Deploying and configuring the appliance
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined primary and media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance primary server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined primary and media server
- Post initial configuration procedures
- Appliance common tasks
- Storage management
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
- About viewing storage space information using the Show command
- About OpenStorage plugin installation
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
- Deduplication pool catalog backup and recovery
- Network connection management
- Managing users
- About user name and password specifications
- About authenticating LDAP users
- About authenticating Active Directory users
- About authenticating Kerberos-NIS users
- About user authorization on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
- Using the appliance
- About configuring Host parameters for your appliance on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- About Copilot functionality and Share management
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
- About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
- About mounting a remote NFS
- About Auto Image Replication from a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Monitoring the appliance
- About SNMP
- About Call Home
- Appliance security
- About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- About data encryption
- Setting the appliance login banner
- Upgrading the appliance
- About upgrading to NetBackup Virtual Appliance software version 4.1
- Requirements and best practices for upgrading NetBackup appliances
- Methods for downloading appliance software release updates
- NetBackup client upgrades with VxUpdate
- Appliance restore
- Decommissioning and Reconfiguring
- Troubleshooting
- About disaster recovery
- About NetBackup support utilities
- Appliance logging
- Commands overview
- Appendix A. Appliance commands
- Appendix B. Manage commands
- Appendix C. Monitor commands
- Appendix D. Network commands
- Appendix E. Reports commands
- Appendix F. Settings commands
- Appendix G. Support commands
Recovering a NetBackup appliance primary server using NetBackup catalog restore
This section details how to recover a NetBackup Virtual Appliance primary server using the NetBackup catalog restore function.
The following information is mandatory to complete this task:
Copy of the NetBackup catalog from the affected primary server.
Note:
Make sure to set the passphrase for the NetBackup catalog backup policy. The passphrase is needed for a catalog recovery.
Host name of the affected primary server.
Network configuration.
Time zone of the affected primary server.
Note:
This procedure requires that you have a copy of your NetBackup catalog stored on a separate server or computer. You need the catalog backup to recover the affected primary server.
To recover an appliance primary server using NetBackup catalog restore
- Once you have completed the deployment, log on to the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu on the primary server and create an NetBackup CLI user.
Main_Menu > Manage > NetBackupCLI > Create
- Copy the NetBackup catalog files that were stored off-site onto the primary server.
- Log out of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu, then log on as the NetBackup CLI user you created earlier.
- Run bp.kill_all.
- Run nbhostidentity -import -infile with the package file of the
.drpkg
- Run bp.start_all, then verify that the token, certifications, and security settings have been restored.
- Perform the initial configuration on the appliance.
Note:
Make sure to keep the same host name and time zone of the primary as before the disaster.
- Run bpsetconfig to add the line: MEDIA_SERVER=<media_server_name> and register media servers on the new primary server. Use Ctrl + D to exit and save this entry.
- Run nbemmcmd to add the media server's record to the EEM database manually:
nbemmcmd -addhost -machinename <media_server_name> -machinetype media -primarieserver <primary_server_name> -operatingsystem linux -netbackupversion <NetBackup_version>
- Restart the NetBackup services on the media server.
Note:
To ensure proper communication between the primary and the media server, you must perform this step before you create the MSDP storage information on the media server as described in the following step.
- Create the media server AdvancedDisk and MSDP storage information using the following commands:
AdvanvcedDisk
nbdevconfig -creatests -storage_server <media_server_name> -stype AdvancedDisk -media_server <media_server_name> -st 5
nbdevconfig -createdp -dp dp_adv_<media_server_name> -stype AdvancedDisk -storage_servers <media_server_name> -dvlist dvlist.txt
bpstuadd -label stu_adv_<media_server_name> -dp dp_adv_<media_server_name> -cj 20 -odo 1 -okrt 0 -nodevhost -M <primary_server_name>
MSDP
nbdevconfig -creatests -storage_server <media_server_name> -stype PureDisk -media_server <media_server_name> -st 9
nbdevconfig -createdp -dp dp_disk_<media_server_name> -stype PureDisk -storage_servers <media_server_name> -dvlist dvlist.txt
bpstuadd -label stu_disk_<media_server_name> -dp dp_disk_<media_server_name> -cj 20 -odo 1 -okrt 0 -nodevhost -M <primary_server_name>
- Restore the NetBackup catalog by performing one of the following actions:
Run the bprecover -wizard command.
Use the NetBackup Catalog Recovery Wizard in the NetBackup Administrator's Console.
- Run bp.kill_all and bp.restart_all to finish recovering the primary server.
- Synchronize the MSDP storage server password as follows:
For software versions 3.3.0.1 and later, log in to the appliance shell menu on the primary server and run the following command:
Main_Menu > Appliance > ShowDeDupPassword
For software versions 3.1 through 3.2, log in to the appliance shell menu on the primary server and run the following command:
Main_Menu > Appliance > ShowDeDupPassword
Log in to the appliance primary server as a NetBackup CLI user and run the following command:
tpconfig -update -storage_server <primary host name> -stype PureDisk -sts_user_id root -media_server <primary hostname>, then enter the dedupe password from the previous command output.