Veritas NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Snapshot Client features
- About snapshot basics
- Off-host backup overview
- Off-host backup methods
- Snapshot Client requirements
- Installation
- Policy configuration
- Selecting the snapshot method
- Configuration parameters for Snapshot Client
- About using alternate client backup
- Configuring alternate client backup
- Policy configuration tips
- About disabling snapshots
- FlashBackup configuration
- Instant Recovery configuration
- About Instant Recovery
- About sizing the cache for Instant Recovery copy-on-write snapshots
- About configuring VxVM
- About storage lifecycle policies for snapshots
- Network Attached Storage (NAS) snapshot configuration
- Configuration of software-based snapshot methods
- Support for Cluster Volume Manager Environments (CVM)
- Configuration of snapshot methods for disk arrays
- About the new disk array snapshot methods
- Disk array configuration tasks
- OS-specific configuration tasks
- About VSS configuration (Windows)
- About EMC CLARiiON arrays
- Configuring NetBackup to access the CLARiiON array
- Configuring a NetBackup policy for a CLARiiON array method
- About EMC Symmetrix arrays
- About configuration for EMC_TimeFinder_Mirror
- About configuration for EMC_TimeFinder_Clone
- About HP EVA arrays
- Verifying connectivity from clients to array using SSSU 5.0
- About IBM DS6000 and DS8000 arrays
- Configuring NetBackup to access the IBM DS6000 or DS8000 array
- About IBM DS4000 array
- About Hitachi SMS/WMS/AMS, USP/NSC, USP-V/VM
- Hitachi array software requirements
- About HP-XP arrays
- About array troubleshooting
- Notes on Media Server and Third-Party Copy methods
- Backup and restore procedures
- About restores from a FlashBackup backup
- Instant Recovery restore features
- About configurations for restore
- About restoring from a disk snapshot
- Troubleshooting
- Logging directories for UNIX platforms
- Logging folders for Windows platforms
- FlashBackup and status code 13
- Appendix A. Managing nbu_snap (Solaris)
- Appendix B. Overview of snapshot operations
- Appendix C. NetBackup integration with CloudPoint for snapshot managment
Registering a CloudPoint server in NetBackup
To register a CloudPoint server as snapshot management server in NetBackup you need to add the credentials of the CloudPoint server. Veritas recommends that you add, update, or delete the CloudPoint server from NetBackup.
To register the CloudPoint server
- Log on to the NetBackup Administration Console.
- In the left navigation pane, go to Media and Device Management > Credentials > Snapshot Management Server.
The Snapshot Server Management pane is displayed.
- Select Actions > New > New Snapshot Server.
- Enter the snapshot server host name and click OK.
Note:
The host name address must be DNS resolvable. Also, IP address is not supported for CloudPoint server name as an input.
- (Optional) Select the Connect using Port number check box, if you want to connect using a specific port.
- Click Validate Server to retrieve the CA certificate of the snapshot server.
- Verify the CA fingerprint and click Yes.
- Enter the CloudPoint server user name and password.
- Click OK.
A success message is displayed.
- Click OK.
The registered CloudPoint server is displayed under the Snapshot Management Servers table.
To update the CloudPoint server credentials
- Log on to the NetBackup Administration Console.
- In the left navigation pane, go to Media and Device Management > Credentials > Snapshot Management Server.
The Snapshot Server Management pane is displayed.
- In the Host Name column, right-click on the server you want to update.
- In the menu, click Change.
- In the Change CloudPoint Server dialog box, update the credentials.
- Enter the CloudPoint server user name and password.
- Select the cloud providers you want to associate with the CloudPoint server.
For on-premises deployment, select None.
Note:
You can associate multiple providers with a server, but you cannot associate multiple servers with the same provider.
- Click OK.
A success message is displayed.
- Click OK