Veritas NetBackup™ Replication Director Solutions Guide
- Introduction
- Additional configuration topics
- Creating a NetBackup storage server for snapshot replication
- Configuring disk pools for snapshot and replication
- About disk pools for snapshots and snapshot replication
- Creating disk pools for snapshot replication
- Updating disk pools after volumes are added, are deleted, or are changed
- Updating an OpenStorage disk pool to reflect plug-in updates
- How to resolve snapshot disk volume changes
- Using bpstsinfo to view the replication topology of a device
- Configuring storage units and storage unit groups for snapshots and snapshot replication
- Configuring storage lifecycle policies for snapshots and snapshot replication
- About configuring storage lifecycle policies for snapshots and snapshot replication
- Creating a storage lifecycle policy for snapshots and snapshot replication
- Operation types in a storage lifecycle policy
- Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Primary snapshot storage unit
- Primary + Replication source snapshot storage unit
- Replication source + Replication target snapshot storage unit
- Replication target snapshot storage unit
- Replication source + Replication target + Mirror snapshot storage unit
- Replication target + Mirror snapshot storage unit
- Replication operation in an SLP
- Index From Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Backup From Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Duplication operation in an SLP
- Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Retention types for storage lifecycle policy operations
- Configuring backup policies for snapshots and snapshot replication
- About configuring a backup policy for Replication Director
- Configuring an NDMP policy to protect a NAS host
- Configuring a Standard or MS-Windows policy to protect clients using NDMP with Data Mover
- Configuring a Standard or MS-Windows policy to protect NAS volumes or SAN-connected devices
- About NDMP support for Replication Director
- Restoring from a snapshot
- About restores from array-based snapshots
- Restoring files and folders from an array-based snapshot
- About restores from array-based snapshots of virtual machines
- Using OpsCenter to restore from array-based snapshots
- How NetApp performs a volume-level rollback restore
- Restoring (rolling back) from an array-based snapshot
- OpsCenter reporting
- Using NetApp disk arrays with Replication Director
- Using NetApp disk arrays with Replication Director
- Supported NetApp topologies
- Using NetApp Data ONTAP 7-mode with Replication Director
- Configuration overview: NetApp 7-Mode with Replication Director
- Licenses required for NetApp Data ONTAP 7-Mode with Replication Director
- Software required to use NetApp Data ONTAP 7-Mode with Replication Director
- About using NetApp SAN-connected storage with Replication Director
- If the OnCommand Unified Manager root or administrator password has changed
- Considerations when configuring an OnCommand Unified Manager as a NetBackup storage server
- Importing existing NetApp relationships for NetBackup control
- Enabling Unicode and language settings on NetApp disk arrays
- Using NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP with Replication Director
- Configuration overview: NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP with Replication Director
- Licenses required for NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP with Replication Director
- Software required to use NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP with Replication Director
- Configuring Replication Director to work with Clustered Data ONTAP
- About creating backup policies for Clustered Data ONTAP with Replication Director
- Protecting volumes with nested junctions for Clustered Data ONTAP
- Limitations to using Clustered Data ONTAP with Replication Director
- Using Oracle with Replication Director
- Using Virtual Machines with Replication Director
- Terminology
NetBackup configuration for Replication Director
NetBackup configuration is performed by the NetBackup administrator, as described in Table: NetBackup configuration tasks overview.
Table: NetBackup configuration tasks overview
Step | Description | Reference topic |
|---|---|---|
1 | Install or upgrade NetBackup software on the master server and media server(s). | |
2 | Run the Storage Server Configuration Wizard to configure the OpenStorage partner as a NetBackup storage server. This wizard also configures the following:
| See Creating a NetBackup storage server for snapshot replication. |
3 | Create an additional disk pool for every group of disk volumes that will contain snapshot replications of the primary snapshot. As part of the Disk Pool Creation Wizard, a storage unit is configured for each disk pool. | |
4 | Create a storage unit for any operation that will produce duplications (non-snapshot copies). | |
5 | Configure a storage lifecycle policy. Create a new operation in the SLP for each task that the SLP is to perform. For example, create a Snapshot operation to perform the initial snapshot and a Replication operation to create a copy of the snapshot. | See Creating a storage lifecycle policy for snapshots and snapshot replication. |
6 | Configure a NetBackup backup policy to perform all of the operations indicated in the SLP. To do so, the Policy storage selection in the policy must indicate the SLP that is configured for snapshots and snapshot replication. | See Configuring a Standard or MS-Windows policy to protect NAS volumes or SAN-connected devices. See Configuring an NDMP policy to protect a NAS host. |
The following figure is an overview of how the NetBackup components fit together to perform snapshots and snapshot replication. The following sections describe how to configure each part of this process.
