Veritas NetBackup™ CloudPoint Install and Upgrade Guide

Discover assets

CloudPoint discovers all the NFS exports and their snapshots along with some of their metadata.

For example, if on NFS exports you have: ["/ifs", "/ifs/test_fs1", "/ifs/test_fs2", "/ifs/test_fs1/test_data", "/ifs/smb_03/test_data/dir01"] so NFS exports discovered in cloudpoint are ["/ifs/test_fs1", "/ifs/test_fs2"].

Create snapshot

To create a snapshot, CloudPoint triggers a POST REST API call on the nfs_export with the required information and the snapshot name. The API returns the details of the snapshot.

A typical snapshot created by CloudPoint has the following naming convention:

NB<unique_21digit_number>

Delete snapshot

To delete a snapshot, CloudPoint triggers a DELETE REST API call with the required snapshot details and confirms that the snapshot has been deleted successfully on the Cluster.

Restore snapshot

CloudPoint is uses the JobAPI to revert a snapshot.

To revert a snapshot that contains a directory, it is recommended that you create a SnapRevert domain for a directory.

To revert a snapshot, perform the following steps:

Export snapshot

When a snapshot export operation is triggered, a new NFS export is created over the snapshot path ("/ifs/test_fs/.snapshot/NB15985918570166499611/") and the backup host is added as a Root Client with the read-only permission.

Deport snapshot

When a snapshot deport operation is triggered, CloudPoint deletes the NFS export created over the snapshot path at the time of the export operation.

Create snapshot diff

CloudPoint use the JobAPI to create a changelist between snapshots.

To create a changelist, perform the following steps: