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
Creating storage unit groups for snapshots
Creating storage unit groups is optional. A snapshot storage unit group must be comprised of storage units that have matching properties.
The following procedure describes how to create a storage unit group that consists of the storage units that can contain snapshots.
To create a snapshot storage unit group
- In the NetBackup Administration Console, expand NetBackup Management > Storage.
- Right-click Storage Unit Groups and select New Storage Unit Group.
- Enter a storage unit group name for the new storage unit group. The storage unit group name is case-sensitive.
- For the storage unit group to contain snapshots, select Snapshot in the drop-down menu.
- A storage unit group can contain only those storage units that share similar properties. NetBackup filters the storage units for selection so that dissimilar storage units are not combined in one storage unit group.
Note:
The properties of the underlying storage units are read-only. You cannot change the storage unit properties from this dialog box.
Select one or more properties to filter the storage units in the list. Only those storage units that have the selected properties are displayed. For example, select Replication source and Replication target to display only those storage units that are configured to act as both replication sources and replication targets.
Filter the storage units on the following properties:
Enable Primary to display the storage units that can contain the initial snapshot of primary data.
Enable Replication source to display the storage units that can serve as a source for a replicated snapshot.
Enable Replication target to display the storage units that can receive replicated snapshots from a replication source.
Optionally, enable Mirror to display the storage units that can serve as a mirrored replication target. (For example, NetApp SnapMirror.)
Optionally, enable Independent to display the storage units that can act as either a Mirror replication target (SnapMirror) or a non-mirror replication target (SnapVault).
Add or remove storage units from the group:
To add storage units to the group, select the storage units from the Available storage units list and click Add.
To remove storage units from the group, select the storage units from the Storage units to be used in the group list and click Remove.
To change the priority of a storage unit, select the storage unit and click Move Up or Move Down. The units at the top of the list have the highest priority in the group.
- Click OK to save and close the dialog box.
