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
Adding clients to a CLARiiON storage group
All NetBackup primary clients and any alternate clients must exist in a CLARiiON storage group. NetBackup does not automatically add clients to a CLARiiON storage group.
Warning:
Veritas strongly recommends that every NetBackup client be given its own CLARiiON storage group on the array. Data corruption could result if more than one client (host) exists in a single storage group. If it is necessary to have multiple hosts in a single storage group, you must make certain that only one host in the storage group is actually using the device at any given time. (Only one host should mount the disk.) A Windows host may actually write to a LUN masked device even if the device is not mounted. Therefore, a Windows host should always be in its own storage group.
To add clients to a CLARiiON storage group
- Register your clients (hosts) with the array.
- Create storage groups.
- Add the NetBackup primary and any alternate clients to the storage groups.
For more detail, see your array administrator or array documentation.
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