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
About disk pools for snapshots and snapshot replication
An OpenStorage disk pool represents the disk storage that is exposed to NetBackup through the OpenStorage API. A disk pool can represent one or more volumes. Disk pools inherit their properties from the volumes that comprise the disk pools.
Snapshot and snapshot replication disk pools differ from other NetBackup disk pool types as follows:
Only one storage unit can access a snapshot or a snapshot replication disk pool.
Snapshot and snapshot replication disk pools observe no high or no low water marks.
One disk pool to be used for snapshots can be configured as part of the Storage Server Configuration Wizard. At least one additional disk pool is necessary for snapshot replication. The Disk Pool Configuration Wizard can also be launched independently.
See Creating disk pools for snapshot replication.
The NetBackup administrator creates multiple disk pools to serve specific purposes in a replication configuration. The volumes in a disk pool must have the properties that match their intended purpose.
For example, the following disk pools are necessary to create a snapshot volume and replicate it to target volumes:
A disk pool that contains a volume where the initial snapshot can be created. The volume must have the Snapshot and Primary attributes set.
A disk pool that contains a volume with the Snapshot and the Replication target properties set to serve as the target for a replica snapshot.
The following topic describes the roles that disk pools and storage units can serve in a Replication Director configuration:
See About configuring storage lifecycle policies for snapshots and snapshot replication.