Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Administrator's Guide
- Overview
- About NetBackup appliances
- About the Master Server role
- About the Media Server role
- About accessing the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- About the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- About appliance console components
- About the NetBackup Appliance Web Console login page
- NetBackup appliance home page
- Common tasks in NetBackup appliance
- About the NetBackup appliance documentation
- Monitoring the NetBackup appliance
- About monitoring the NetBackup appliance
- About hardware monitoring and alerts
- About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup appliance
- Managing a NetBackup appliance from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- About the Manage views
- About storage configuration
- Manage > Storage
- Manage > Storage > Shares
- Manage > Storage > Universal Shares
- Checking partition details
- Resizing a partition
- Resize dialog
- Troubleshooting resize-related issues
- Moving a partition
- Move <partition> dialog
- Moving the MSDP partition from a base disk to an expansion disk for optimum performance
- Scanning storage devices from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- Adding the storage space from a newly available disk
- Removing an existing storage disk
- Monitoring the progress of storage manipulation tasks
- Scanning storage devices using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- About Copilot functionality and Share management
- About Optimized Shares and the Optimized Share Reserve
- Creating a Share
- Editing a Share
- Deleting a Share
- Moving a Share
- Creating the Optimized Share Reserve
- Deleting the Optimized Share Reserve
- Viewing Share information from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- NFS export options
- Mounting a Universal Share
- About viewing storage space information using the Show command
- About storage email alerts
- About appliance supported tape devices
- About configuring Host parameters for your appliance
- Manage > Appliance Restore
- Manage > License
- About the Migration Utility
- Software release updates for NetBackup Appliances
- About installing an EEB
- About installing NetBackup Administration Console and client software
- Manage > Additional Servers
- Manage > Certificates
- Manage > High Availability
- Managing NetBackup appliance using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- Expanding the bandwidth on the NetBackup appliance
- About configuring the maximum transmission unit size
- About OpenStorage plugin installation
- About mounting a remote NFS
- About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
- About NetBackup administrator capabilities
- Running NetBackup commands from the NetBackup appliance
- Creating a NetBackup touch file from the NetBackup appliance
- About NetBackup operating system commands
- Best practices for running NetBackup commands from the NetBackup appliance
- Known limitations of running NetBackup commands from the NetBackup appliance
- Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
- Deleting NetBackup administrator user accounts
- Viewing NetBackup administrator user accounts
- About NetBackup administrator capabilities
- About Auto Image Replication between appliances
- About forwarding logs to an external server
- About high availability configuration
- About the non-certified disk erasure
- Understanding the NetBackup appliance settings
- About modifying the appliance settings
- Settings > Notifications
- Settings > Network
- VLAN configuration for NetBackup Appliances
- Settings > Network > Network Settings
- Settings > Network > Fibre Transport
- Settings > Network > Host
- About IPv4-IPv6-based network support
- Settings > Date and Time
- Settings > Authentication
- About configuring user authentication
- About authorizing NetBackup appliance users
- Settings > Authentication
- Settings > Authentication > LDAP
- Adding an LDAP server configuration
- Importing an LDAP server configuration
- Setting the SSL certification
- Exporting an LDAP configuration
- Unconfiguring LDAP user authentication
- Enabling the LDAP server configuration
- Disabling the LDAP server configuration
- Deleting LDAP configuration parameters
- Adding LDAP configuration parameters
- Adding an LDAP attribute mapping
- Deleting an LDAP attribute mapping
- Settings > Authentication > Active Directory
- Settings > Authentication > Kerberos-NIS
- Settings > Authentication > User Management
- Settings > Password Management
- Troubleshooting
- Deduplication pool catalog backup and recovery
Downloading NetBackup client packages to a client from a NetBackup appliance
You can download NetBackup client software from a NetBackup appliance to any client that you want to back up. The NetBackup Appliance Web Console logon page provides a section to download the client packages.
The packages are listed by operating system type in a drop-down box as follows:
All
Windows
Linux
Solaris
AIX
HP
BSD
Mac OS
VMware vCenter Plug-in
Note:
If you download Linux, UNIX, Solaris, AIX, or BSD packages, Veritas recommends GNU tar version 1.16 or higher to extract the .tar packages.
For more information, see the following Technote on the Veritas Support website:
In addition to the downloading instructions, this procedure also includes the steps to extract and install the downloaded files on to the client.
To download NetBackup client packages from a NetBackup appliance to a client
- Log in to the client that you want to back up.
- Open a browser window and enter the appliance URL.
- In the middle of the landing page, in the section Download Packages, click on the drop-down box to see the list of packages.
- Right-click the selected package and specify the location to download it onto the client.
Example locations are as follows:
On Windows platforms, download the package to C:\temp or to the desktop.
To determine the type of hardware on your Windows system, right-click My Computer and select Properties.
On Linux or UNIX platforms, download the package to /tmp.
Note:
If the message No packages found appears after you make a selection, that client package is not currently installed on the appliance. Refer to the following topic to download client packages on to the appliance:
See Downloading software updates to a NetBackup appliance using a client share.
- Unzip or untar the package.
- Install the client software as follows:
Windows systems
Click the setup.exe file.
UNIX systems
Run the .install script.
- After you have successfully installed the client software, add the appliance master server name to the client as follows:
Windows systems
UNIX systems
After NetBackup has been installed on the client, open the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface.
Start > All Programs > Veritas NetBackup > Backup, Archive, and Restore
From the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface, select File > Specify NetBackup Machines and Policy Type...
From the Specify NetBackup Machines and Policy Type dialog, enter the server name in the field Server to use for backups and restores. Then click Edit Server List and click OK.
In the dialog box that appears, enter the fully qualified host name of the appliance master server and click OK.
Close the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface.
Restart the NetBackup Client Services by opening a Windows Command prompt. Then, enter services.msc and press Enter.
On the client, navigate to the following location:
cd /usr/openv/netbackup
Enter ls to see the contents of the directory.
Open the
bp.conffile in a text editor.Enter the fully qualified host name of the appliance master server.
Save the changes and close the file.