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
Restoring (rolling back) from an array-based snapshot
The following procedure describes how to perform a volume-level rollback restore (point-in-time restore) from a snapshot that NetBackup Replication Director manages. The storage device replaces the protected volume with the snapshot of the volume.
NetBackup supports point-in-time rollback restores for only NAS devices and only for copy one. Point-in-time rollback restores are not supported for SAN devices on Windows or UNIX.
Note:
Do not perform a point-in-time rollback restore on a volume which is shared across multiple policies because it retains the stale catalog entries for another policy or policies.
See How NetApp performs a volume-level rollback restore.
To restore from an array-based snapshot
- Begin the restore procedure as follows:
Windows
Click File > Select Files and Folders to Restore > from Point in Time Rollback.
The NetBackup History pane shows the available snapshots from which you can restore.
UNIX
Click the Restore Files tab, then select Point in Time Rollback for the Restore Type.
The Date Range dialog box appears.
The following is an example of the restore window on a Windows computer:
- Select a snapshot as follows:
Windows
In the NetBackup History pane, select the snapshot to restore.
The snapshot appears in the All Folders pane.
UNIX
In the Date Range dialog box, select a snapshot from the list and click OK.
The snapshot contents appear in the Directory Structure pane.
- Select the volume, as follows:
Windows
In the All Folders pane, expand the directory tree to find the volume mount point (if necessary) and then click the check box next to the mount point for the volume.
UNIX
In the Directory Structure pane, expand the directory tree to find the volume mount point (if necessary) and then click the check box next to the mount point for the volume.
- Begin the restore, as follows:
Windows
Click Actions > Restore....
UNIX
Click Restore.
The Restore Marked Files dialog box appears.
Most options are selected by default and cannot be changed.
The following is an example of the Restore Marked Files dialog box on a Microsoft Windows computer:
- In the Restore Marked Files dialog box, select from the following options to meet the requirements for the restore:
Restore Options
Skip verification and force rollback
By default, NetBackup performs several checks on the file system during the restore. If the checks fail, the restore stops. Select this option to skip verification.
Warning:
Select this option only if you are sure that you want to replace all of the files in the original location with the snapshot. Rollback deletes all files that were created after the creation-date of the snapshot from which you restore.
Force rollback even if it invalidates later snapshots
This option applies only if you restore from a snapshot other than the most recent one.
Warning:
Select this option only if you are sure that you want to replace the original volume with the snapshot. If more recent snapshots that have been replicated exist and you do not select this option, the rollback restore fails.
Job Priority
To change the priority of this restore, click Override default priority and then set a priority number.
The default is 90000. The available range is 0 to 99999.
- Click Start Restore.
- In the dialog box that appears, click Yes to view the restore status.
If file verification fails, a message appears in the View Status dialog box (Windows) or Task Progress tab (UNIX) that indicates the restore was not performed.
After a restore operation begins, you can close Backup, Archive, and Restore to perform other tasks on your computer. NetBackup continues the restore operation in the background.
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