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
About VxVM
snapshot method is for making mirror snapshots with Veritas Volume Manager 3.1 or later snapshot mirrors. (On Windows, make sure that VxVM has the latest VxVM service packs and updates.)Note:
On the Red Hat Linux 4 platform, VxVM snapshot method supports Storage Foundation 5.0 MP3 RP3 HF9 or later versions.
Note the following:
See Creating a snapshot mirror of the source.
Or refer to your Veritas Volume Manager documentation.
Help is available for configuring a cache object.
See About VxVM instant snapshots.
Or refer to your Veritas Volume Manager documentation.
For Instant Recovery backups of the data that is configured on VxVM volumes on Windows, the VxVM volume names must be 12 characters or fewer. Otherwise, the backup fails.
VxVM and VxFS_Checkpoint are the only snapshot methods in Snapshot Client that support the multi-volume file system (MVS) feature of VxFS 4.0.
Since VxVM does not support fast mirror resynchronization on RAID 5 volumes,
must not be used with VxVM volumes configured as RAID 5. If the snapshot method is selected for a RAID 5 volume, the backup fails.