NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Installation
- Policy configuration
- Notes on policies
- Configuring a policy
- Backup Selections tab options when configuring a policy
- Off-host backup configuration options
- Selecting the snapshot method
- Configuring backup scripts
- About using alternate client backup
- Configuring alternate client backup
- Policy configuration tips
- About disabling snapshots
- NAS snapshot configuration
- About NAS snapshot overview
- Dynamic data streaming for D-NAS workloads
- Prerequisites for NetBackup DNAS configuration
- Configuring dynamic data streaming with backup host pool
- Configuring a backup host pool
- Discover plugins
- Minimum supported backup host versions for different features
- Limitations and considerations
- Setting up a NAS-Data-Protection policy
- FlashBackup configuration
- Instant Recovery configuration
- About Instant Recovery capabilities
- Instant Recovery requirements
- Instant Recovery restrictions
- Giving full server privileges to the media server
- About Instant Recovery
- Configuring a policy for Instant Recovery
- About sizing the cache for Instant Recovery copy-on-write snapshots
- Instant Recovery for databases
- About storage lifecycle policies for snapshots
- Configuration of software-based snapshot methods
- Support for Cluster Volume Manager Environments (CVM)
- Configuration of snapshot methods for disk arrays
- OS-specific configuration tasks
- About IBM DS6000 and DS8000 arrays
- IBM DS6000 and DS8000 software requirements
- Preconfiguration for IBM arrays
- Configuring NetBackup to access the IBM DS6000 or DS8000 array
- Configuring the IBM array for NetBackup
- Using DSCLI commands to obtain unique IBM identifiers
- Configuring a NetBackup policy for IBM_DiskStorage_FlashCopy
- For further reference on IBM arrays
- About IBM DS4000 array
- About Hitachi SMS/WMS/AMS, USP/NSC, USP-V/VM
- Hitachi array software requirements
- Preconfiguration for Hitachi
- About communication between NetBackup and the Hitachi array
- Determining if the Hitachi command devices are visible
- About configuring the Hitachi array for NetBackup
- Obtaining the Hitachi array serial number and the unique device identifiers
- Configuring a NetBackup policy for Hitachi_ShadowImage or Hitachi_CopyOnWrite
- About HP-XP arrays
- HP-XP array software requirements
- Preconfiguration for HP-XP
- About communication between NetBackup and the HP-XP array
- Determining if the HP-XP command devices are visible
- About configuring the HP-XP array for NetBackup
- Obtaining the array serial number and unique HP-XP identifiers
- Configuring a NetBackup policy for HP_XP_BusinessCopy and HP_XP_Snapshot
- About array troubleshooting
- Notes on Media Server and Third-Party Copy methods
- Disk requirements for Media Server and Third-Party Copy methods
- Directives for Media Server and Third-Party Copy methods
- Storage units for Media Server and Third-Party Copy methods
- Preventing multiplexing on a third-party copy backup
- Raw partition backups
- Increasing the client read timeout for all clients
- Further information on off-host data mover backups
- Backup and restore procedures
- Snapshot management
- Troubleshooting
- About gathering information and checking logs
- Logging directories for UNIX platforms
- Logging folders for Windows platforms
- Customer support contact information
- Latest patches and updates
- Snapshot provider information
- Important notes on &newProductName;
- &newProductName; installation problems
- FlashBackup and status code 13
- Single file restore from a FlashBackup Instant Recovery snapshot of a file protected by Windows VSS writer fails
- Identifying and removing a left-over snapshot
- Removing a VxVM volume clone
- Alternate client restore and backup from a snapshot fails
- Restore from a snapshot fails with status 2800
- Raw Partition restore fails with the message 'FlashBackup-Windows policy restore error'
- Snapshot creation fails with error 156
- Snapshot fails with error 20
- Restore from a snapshot fails with status 133
- Backup from snapshot fails with error 50
- Backup from snapshot parent job fails with error 4213: Snapshot import failed
- Snapshot job fails and the snapshot command does not recognize the volume name
- Snapshot creation fails with error 4220
- Snapshot creation fails when the same volume is mounted on multiple mount points of the same host
- Snapshot-based backup and restore failure
- Multiple snapshot jobs fail with code 156 or 1541.
- FlashBackup policy fails, with multiple backup selections [Cache =]
- Partial backup failure with 'Snapshot encountered error 156'
- Backup of file system validation fails with error 223
- Policy validation fails if the specified CIFS share path contains a forward slash
- Policy validation fails with status code 223
- An NDMP snapshot policy for wildcard backup fails with error 4201
- Troubleshooting with bpfis log
- Limitations of using HP-UX 11.31
- While configuring a policy for snapshot operations, the NetBackup Administration Console hangs
- Accelerator enabled incremental backup of NetApp NAS volume
- Snapshot method: Auto
- Appendix A. Managing nbu_snap (Solaris)
- Appendix B. Overview of snapshot operations
- Index
FlashBackup restrictions
Note the following restrictions:
FlashBackup policies do not support file systems that HSM manages.
FlashBackup policies for UNIX clients do not support Instant Recovery.
FlashBackup does not support VxFS storage checkpoints that the VxFS_Checkpoint snapshot method uses.
FlashBackup supports the following I/O system components: ufs, VxFS, and Windows NTFS file systems, VxVM volumes and LVM volumes, and raw disks. Other components (such as non-Veritas storage replicators or other non-Veritas volume managers) are not supported.
FlashBackup on Linux supports only the VxFS file system on VxVM volumes. For Linux clients, no other file system is supported, and VxFS file systems are not supported without VxVM volumes.
FlashBackup on AIX supports only the VxFS file system, with VxVM or LVM volumes. For AIX clients, no other file system is supported, and the data must be over a VxVM or LVM volume.
Note these restrictions for Windows clients:
The use of FlashBackup in a Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) environment is supported, with the following limitation: Raw partition restores can only be performed when the disk being restored is placed in extended maintenance mode or removed from the WSFC resource group.
FlashBackup-Windows and Linux policies do not support a Client Direct restore.
FlashBackup-Windows policies support Instant Recovery, but only for backup to a storage unit (not for snapshot-only backups).
FlashBackup-Windows policies do not support the backup of Windows system-protected files (the System State, such as the Registry and Active Directory).
FlashBackup-Windows policies do not support the backup of Windows OS partitions that contain the Windows system files (usually C:).
FlashBackup-Windows policies do not support the backup of Windows System database files (such as RSM Database and Terminal Services Database).
FlashBackup-Windows policies do not support "include" lists (exceptions to client "exclude" lists).
A restore from a FlashBackup-Windows image will not work if the destination client is not a Windows host.
FlashBackup-Windows supports the backup and restore of NTFS files that are compressed. FlashBackup-Windows does support Windows NTFS encryption and compression, but not NetBackup's compression or encryption.
Note:
The compressed NTFS files are backed up and restored as compressed files (they are not uncompressed).
FlashBackup (UNIX) does not support any type of compression or encryption, whether the encryption/compression is set in the NetBackup policy or in the Operating System.
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