Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Administrator's Guide
- Product overview
- Viewing information about the NetBackup Flex Scale cluster environment
- NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management
- User management
- Considerations for managing NetBackup Flex Scale users
- Adding users
- Changing user password
- Removing users
- Considerations for configuring AD/LDAP
- Configuring AD server for Universal shares and Instant Access
- Configuring AD/LDAP servers for NetBackup services
- Configuring additional AD/LDAP servers for managing NetBackup services/Universal Shares/Instant Access
- Configuring AD/LDAP servers on clusters deployed with only media servers
- Directory services and certificate management
- Region settings management
- About NetBackup Flex Scale storage
- About Universal Shares
- Node and disk management
- License management
- User management
- NetBackup Flex Scale network management
- About network management
- Modifying DNS settings
- About bonding Ethernet interfaces
- Bonding operations
- Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale in a non-DNS environment
- Data network configurations
- NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure monitoring
- Resiliency in NetBackup Flex Scale
- EMS server configuration
- Site-based disaster recovery in NetBackup Flex Scale
- About site-based disaster recovery in NetBackup Flex Scale
- Configuring disaster recovery using GUI
- Clearing the host cache
- Managing disaster recovery using GUI
- Performing disaster recovery using RESTful APIs
- Active-Active disaster recovery configuration
- NetBackup optimized duplication using Storage Lifecycle Policies
- NetBackup Flex Scale security
- Troubleshooting
- Services management
- Collecting logs for cluster nodes
- Checking and repairing storage
- Troubleshooting NetBackup Flex Scale issues
- If cluster configuration fails (for example because an IP address that was already in use is specified) and you try to reconfigure the cluster, the UI displays an error but the configuration process continues to run
- Validation error while adding VMware credentials to NetBackup
- NetBackup Web UI incorrectly displays some NetBackup Flex Scale processes as failed
- Unable to create BMR Shared Resource Tree (SRT) on NetBackup Flex Scale Appliance
- NetBackup configuration files are not persistent across operations that require restarting the system
- Appendix A. Configuring NetBackup optimized duplication
- Appendix B. Disaster recovery terminologies
- Appendix C. Configuring Auto Image Replication
Configuring disaster recovery
The user has to invoke RESTful API calls to configure disaster recovery between the clusters. The NetBackup Flex Scale cluster that is to be used as the primary may already have backup data. Before you run the API, ensure that the NetBackup Flex Scale cluster is in healthy state. The NetBackup Flex Scale cluster that is used as secondary must be a freshly configured cluster. Any changes made after the initial configuration is lost, including any backup images.
For the list of ports that should be open, see Firewall and network port requirements section in the Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Installation and Configuration Guide on SORT.
To configure disaster recovery:
Four virtual IP addresses are required, two on each cluster in the data network. One set of IP addresses are used for VVR replication and another set of IP addresses are used for heartbeat between clusters.
The API call to set up disaster recovery is asynchronous. Once the primary site receives the call, it creates a task and returns a task ID. You can find the status of the replication setup by querying the task with the task ID using the following API:
GET /api/appliance/v1.0/tasks/{taskId}Run the API to configure disaster recovery by specifying the primary and secondary site parameters. This API should be executed on the primary site.
POST /api/appliance/v1.0/disaster-recovery
This API can be retried if you encounter any network or timeout failures during disaster recovery configuration. But, do not attempt to retry it if disaster recovery is already configured.
For more information, see the Veritas NetBackup Flex Scale APIs on SORT.
The API sets up replication of the NetBackup catalog using VVR. For replicating the NetBackup policies, use NetBackup optimized duplication (SLP).
See Configuring a Storage Lifecycle Policy for optimized duplication.