NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- About snapshot management
- About snapshot basics
- Off-host backup overview
- Off-host backup methods
- Snapshot Manager requirements
- Installation
- Policy configuration
- Selecting the snapshot method
- Configuration parameters for Snapshot Manager
- About using alternate client backup
- Configuring alternate client backup
- Policy configuration tips
- About disabling snapshots
- NAS snapshot configuration
- 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
- 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
- Snapshot management
- 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
Snapshot Manager assistance
The following kinds of assistance are available.
Table: Types of assistance available for Snapshot Manager
Type of assistance | Description |
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Snapshot Manager help from NetBackup Administration Console | For help creating a policy, click the primary server name at the top of the left pane and click . |
Snapshot Manager assistance from the web | For a document containing additional Snapshot Manager assistance, see the tech note NetBackup Snapshot Client Configuration. This document may be accessed from the following link: http://www.veritas.com/docs/000081320 This document includes the following:
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Compatibility list | For a complete list of supported platforms, snapshot methods, data types, and database agents, and supported combinations of platform and snapshot methods, see the NetBackup 7.x Snapshot Manager Compatibility document: |
NDMP information on the web | The Veritas Support website has a pdf document on supported NDMP operating systems and NAS vendors. The document also contains configuration and troubleshooting help for particular NAS systems. This document may be accessed from the following link: http://www.veritas.com/docs/000027113 The document's title is: NetBackup for NDMP Supported OS and NAS Appliance Information. |