Veritas NetBackup™ in Highly Available Environments Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.1.2)
  1. NetBackup protection against single points of failure
    1. About protecting against component failures
      1.  
        About protecting against network link failures
      2. About protecting against storage device connection failures
        1.  
          About protecting against SAN connection failures
        2.  
          About protecting against robotic control connection failures
      3.  
        About protecting against storage device failure
      4.  
        About protecting against media availability failures
      5.  
        About protecting against master server failures
      6. About protecting against media server failures
        1.  
          About protecting against dedicated media server failures
        2.  
          About protecting against non-dedicated media servers failures
        3.  
          About protecting against SAN media server failures
        4.  
          Restoring tape backups using an alternative media server
        5.  
          Restoring disk backups using an alternative media server.
      7.  
        About protecting against LAN client failures
      8.  
        About protecting against SAN client failures
    2.  
      About protecting against site failures
    3.  
      About protecting catalog in highly available environments
  2. About site disaster recovery with catalog backup and recovery
    1.  
      Disaster recovery packages
    2. About catalog recovery
      1.  
        About full catalog recovery
      2.  
        Performing full catalog restore
      3.  
        Making the DR environment consistent after a full catalog restore
      4.  
        About partial catalog recovery
      5.  
        Performing partial catalog restore
      6.  
        Making the DR environment consistent after a partial catalog restore
    3. About disk recovery in DR domain
      1.  
        Disk recovery in single-domain replication DR environment
      2.  
        Auto Image Replication
      3.  
        Disk recovery in cross-domain replication DR environment
  3. About site loss protection with auto image and catalog replication
    1.  
      About Auto Image Replication (AIR)
    2. About NetBackup catalog replication
      1.  
        About conditions for support of replicated NetBackup catalogs
      2.  
        About catalog synchronization
      3. About multi-site single domain replication
        1.  
          About multi-site single domain with stretched SAN
        2.  
          About multi-site single domain with optimized duplication
      4. About multi-site cross domain replication
        1.  
          About multi-site cross domain and BasicDisk storage
        2.  
          Planning a cross domain replication disaster recovery domain
      5. About full catalog replication
        1.  
          Recovering the catalog with full catalog replication
        2.  
          Making the DR environment consistent with full catalog replication
      6. About partial catalog replication
        1.  
          Preparing an environment for partial catalog replication
        2.  
          Recovering the environment with partial catalog replication
        3.  
          Making the disaster recovery environment consistent with partial catalog replication
        4.  
          Considerations for managing tapes with partial catalog replication
  4. Deploying NetBackup master servers with full catalog replication
    1.  
      About replication considerations
  5. Using NetBackup to perform backups and restores in a cluster
    1. About backups and restores with NetBackup in a cluster
      1.  
        Performing user-directed backups with NetBackup in a cluster
      2. About restoring data in a cluster
        1.  
          Example: Performing a user-directed restore in a NetBackup cluster
    2. About supported NetBackup application agents in a cluster
      1.  
        About backing up database files in a cluster
      2.  
        About user backups
      3.  
        About NetBackup client in a cluster

Example: Performing a user-directed restore in a NetBackup cluster

For example, assume the cluster virtual server name is TOE and the cluster node names are TIC and TAC. Files on the shared disk must be backed up by a NetBackup policy that includes TOE in the client list.

To perform a server-directed restore of files on the shared disk, set both the source client and the destination client to TOE. The server-directed restore does not have to know which node is in control of the shared disk at the time of the restore.

To perform a user-directed restore of files in a NetBackup cluster

  1. Create the following files on the master server.

    For a UNIX or Linux server:

    /usr/openv/netbackup/db/altnames/tic /usr/openv/netbackup/db/altnames/tac

    For a Windows server:

    shared_drive_install_path\NetBackup\db\altnames\tic 
shared_drive_install_path\NetBackup\db\altnames\tac
  2. In both files, add the virtual server name TOE on one line in the file.
  3. Determine which node (TIC or TAC) has control of the shared disk.
  4. Start the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface on that node and select the virtual server name (TOE) as the source client and the server.

    • On Windows computers, in the File menu, click Specify NetBackup Machines.

    • On UNIX or Linux computers, in the Actions menu, click NetBackup Machines.

  5. Browse the backed-up files by using the virtual server name (TOE) from the shared disk and restore them as needed.