Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
- Section I. About NetBackup
- Section II. Configuring hosts
- Configuring Host Properties
- About the NetBackup Host Properties
- Access Control properties
- Bandwidth properties
- Busy File Settings properties
- Client Attributes properties
- Client Settings properties for UNIX clients
- Client Settings properties for Windows clients
- Data Classification properties
- Default Job Priorities properties
- Encryption properties
- Exchange properties
- Exclude Lists properties
- Fibre Transport properties
- Firewall properties
- General Server properties
- Global Attributes properties
- Logging properties
- Login Banner Configuration properties
- Media properties
- Network Settings properties
- Port Ranges properties
- Preferred Network properties
- Resilient Network properties
- Restore Failover properties
- Retention Periods properties
- Scalable Storage properties
- Servers properties
- SharePoint properties
- SLP Parameters properties
- Throttle Bandwidth properties
- Universal Settings properties
- User Account Settings properties
- Configuration options for NetBackup servers
- THROTTLE_BANDWIDTH option for NetBackup servers
- Configuration options for NetBackup clients
- IGNORE_XATTR option for NetBackup clients
- VXSS_NETWORK option for NetBackup clients
- Configuring server groups
- Configuring host credentials
- Managing media servers
- Configuring Host Properties
- Section III. Configuring storage
- Configuring disk storage
- Configuring robots and tape drives
- About configuring robots and tape drives in NetBackup
- Adding a robot to NetBackup manually
- Managing robots
- Adding a tape drive to NetBackup manually
- Adding a tape drive path
- Correlating tape drives and SCSI addresses on Windows hosts
- Correlating tape drives and device files on UNIX hosts
- Managing tape drives
- Performing device diagnostics
- Configuring tape media
- About NetBackup volume pools
- About WORM media
- About adding volumes
- Configuring media settings
- Media settings options
- Media type (new media setting)
- Media settings options
- About barcodes
- Configuring barcode rules
- Configuring media ID generation rules
- Adding volumes by using the Actions menu
- Configuring media type mappings
- Managing volumes
- About exchanging a volume
- About frozen media
- About injecting and ejecting volumes
- About rescanning and updating barcodes
- About labeling NetBackup volumes
- About moving volumes
- About recycling a volume
- Managing volume pools
- Managing volume groups
- Inventorying robots
- About showing a robot's contents
- About updating the NetBackup volume configuration
- About the vmphyinv physical inventory utility
- Configuring storage units
- About the Storage utility
- Creating a storage unit
- About storage unit settings
- Absolute pathname to directory or absolute pathname to volume setting for storage units
- Maximum concurrent jobs storage unit setting
- Staging backups
- Creating a basic disk staging storage unit
- Configuring storage unit groups
- Section IV. Configuring storage lifecycle policies (SLPs)
- Configuring storage lifecycle policies
- Storage operations
- Index From Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Retention types for SLP operations
- Capacity managed retention type for SLP operations
- Storage lifecycle policy options
- Using a storage lifecycle policy to create multiple copies
- Storage lifecycle policy versions
- Section V. Configuring backups
- Creating backup policies
- Planning for policies
- Policy Attributes tab
- Policy storage (policy attribute)
- Policy volume pool (policy attribute)
- Take checkpoints every __ minutes (policy attribute)
- Backup Network Drives (policy attribute)
- Cross mount points (policy attribute)
- Encryption (policy attribute)
- Collect true image restore information (policy attribute) with and without move detection
- Use Accelerator (policy attribute)
- Enable optimized backup of Windows deduplicated volumes
- Use Replication Director (policy attributes)
- Schedule Attributes tab
- Type of backup (schedule attribute)
- Frequency (schedule attribute)
- Multiple copies (schedule attribute)
- Retention (schedule attribute)
- Media multiplexing (schedule attribute)
- Start Window tab
- Include Dates tab
- How open schedules affect calendar-based and frequency-based schedules
- About the Clients tab
- Backup Selections tab
- Adding backup selections to a policy
- Verifying the Backup Selections list
- Pathname rules for UNIX client backups
- About the directives on the Backup Selections list
- ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive
- Files that are excluded from backups by default
- Disaster Recovery tab
- Active Directory granular backups and recovery
- Synthetic backups
- Using the multiple copy synthetic backups method
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- Parts of the NetBackup catalog
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- Archiving the catalog and restoring from the catalog archive
- Estimating catalog space requirements
- About the NetBackup relational database
- About the NetBackup relational database (NBDB) installation
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on Windows
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on UNIX
- Post-installation tasks
- About backup and recovery procedures
- Managing backup images
- Creating backup policies
- Section VI. Configuring replication
- About NetBackup replication
- About NetBackup Auto Image Replication
- Viewing the replication topology for Auto Image Replication
- About the storage lifecycle policies required for Auto Image Replication
- Removing or replacing replication relationships in an Auto Image Replication configuration
- About NetBackup replication
- Section VII. Monitoring and reporting
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- About the Jobs tab
- About the Daemons tab
- About the Processes tab
- About the Drives tab
- About the jobs database
- About pending requests and actions
- Reporting in NetBackup
- Using the Logging Assistant
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Section VIII. Administering NetBackup
- Management topics
- Accessing a remote server
- Using the NetBackup Remote Administration Console
- Run-time configuration options for the NetBackup Administration Console
- About improving NetBackup performance
- About adjusting time zones in the NetBackup Administration console
- Alternate server restores
- About performing alternate server restores
- Managing client backups and restores
- About client-redirected restores
- Powering down and rebooting NetBackup servers
- About Granular Recovery Technology
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2012, 2012 R2, or 2016
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2008 and 2008 R2
Decommission actions
The nbdecommission command deletes the configuration for the old server from the EMM database, the NetBackup image catalog, and configuration files on servers.
The following table shows the actions it performs for the components that reference the media server. The table is organized in the order in which the command processes the component.
Table: nbdecommission command actions
Component | Action |
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Storage unit - Tape | Deletes the following tape storage units:
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Tape drive | Deletes the tape drive path for each tape drive that is attached to the old server. If the path on the old server is the only path, it also deletes the tape drive. If a path to a drive exists on more than one media server, the tape drive may become unusable. You may have to connect the tape drive to a different media server and then reconfigure it in NetBackup. For example, if the old server is a scan host for a shared drive, NetBackup cannot use the drive if no other host can scan. |
Robotic library | Deletes all of the robotic libraries that are attached to the old server. If the old server is the robot control host for a shared library, the drives and media become standalone and unusable. You must reconfigure and re-inventory the library. |
Tape media | Specifies if you want to expire the following tape media or move them to another media server:
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Storage unit - BasicDisk | Deletes the storage unit if no images exist on it. If images exist, the wizard lets you choose one of the following options:
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Storage unit - AdvancedDisk | Specifies that if more than one media server can access the disk pool that is the destination of the storage unit, it does the following:
If the old server is the only server that can access the disk pool, the wizard lets you choose to do one of the following:
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Storage unit - OpenStorage | Specifies that if more than one media server can access the disk pool that is the destination of the storage unit, it does the following:
If the old server is the only server that can access the disk pool, the wizard lets you choose to do one of the following:
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Storage unit group | Specifies that if the nbdecommission command deletes all of the storage units in a storage unit group, it also deletes the storage unit group. Deleting the storage unit group also may affect backup policies and storage lifecycle policies. See "Backup policy and schedule" and "Storage lifecycle policy" in this table. |
Backup policy and schedule | Deactivates any backup policy in which the storage destination (directly or indirectly) is a storage unit that the command deletes. Specifically, deactivates any backup policy that meets any of the following conditions:
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Storage lifecycle policy | Specifies that for each storage lifecycle policy in which one or more operations uses a storage unit that the command deleted, it does the following:
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Fibre Transport media server | Displays the commands necessary to delete the old server as an FT media server and then exits. After you delete the old server as an FT media server, rerun the nbdecommission command to continue with the decommissioning. |
| On UNIX NetBackup servers, removes the old server from the following
On UNIX master servers, also removes the old server from the FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER and FAILOVER_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVERS entries. |
Windows registry | On Windows NetBackup servers, removes the old server from the following registry keys:
On Windows master servers, also removes the old server from the FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER and FAILOVER_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVERS keys. |
Clients | Lists the clients on which the old server appears in their server lists. You must remove the references to the old server manually. |