Veritas NetBackup™ for Enterprise Vault™ Agent Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.3.0.1, 8.3, 8.1)
  1. Introduction to NetBackup Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      About Enterprise Vault
    2.  
      About the NetBackup Enterprise Vault Agent
    3.  
      About the Enterprise Vault Agent and the backup components
    4.  
      Enterprise Vault agent features
    5.  
      Enterprise Vault agent requirements
  2. About NetBackup Enterprise Vault agent installation requirements
    1.  
      Installation requirements for NetBackup Enterprise Vault agent
    2.  
      Verifying Enterprise Vault agent operating system compatibility
    3.  
      NetBackup server and client software requirements
    4.  
      About Enterprise Vault agent installation requirements in a cluster
    5.  
      Configuring Enterprise Vault Agent to protect Enterprise Vault databases
    6.  
      Adding the Enterprise Vault agent license key
    7. Configuration requirements for upgrading the Enterprise Vault agent
      1. Configuring the policy directives after upgrading NetBackup and Enterprise Vault
        1.  
          About additional new directives of Enterprise Vault 10.0 and later versions
  3. Configuration
    1.  
      About the Windows and Java user interfaces
    2.  
      Specifying a logon account for the Enterprise Vault server
    3.  
      About VSS-based snapshot configuration
    4.  
      Configuring the local media server for Enterprise Vault backup
    5.  
      Configuration requirements for an Enterprise Vault backup policy
    6.  
      Adding a new Enterprise Vault policy
    7.  
      Enterprise Vault backup policy attributes
    8.  
      Adding schedules to an Enterprise Vault policy
    9.  
      About the types of Enterprise Vault backups
    10.  
      Creating a backup selections list
    11.  
      Adding a client to a policy
  4. About features provided by Enterprise Vault for a backup provider
    1.  
      About Enterprise Vault quiescence before a backup
    2.  
      About quiescing and unquiescing Enterprise Vault services
    3.  
      About granular quiescence
    4.  
      About managing safety copies and backups
    5.  
      About the partition secure notification file
    6.  
      About the archive bit
  5. Performing backups of Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      About Enterprise Vault directives and what data they back up
    2.  
      Manually backing up Enterprise Vault resources
    3.  
      Canceling an Enterprise Vault backup job from the Activity Monitor
  6. Performing restores of Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      Important notes about Enterprise Vault data restore
    2.  
      Stopping the administrative services on Enterprise Vault servers
    3.  
      About the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface
    4.  
      Viewing backup data using the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
    5.  
      Restoring Enterprise Vault data
    6.  
      About the Enterprise Vault restore options on the General tab
    7.  
      About the Enterprise Vault Database Settings tab
    8.  
      Specifying the server, clients, and policy type for restores
    9.  
      About restoring Enterprise Vault file system data
    10.  
      Restoring an Enterprise Vault file system component
    11. About restoring Enterprise Vault SQL databases
      1.  
        About backup image restore sets
    12.  
      Restoring Enterprise Vault SQL database components
  7. Disaster recovery
    1.  
      Disaster recovery requirements for Enterprise Vault server
    2.  
      About disaster recovery of an Enterprise Vault site
    3.  
      Recovering a directory database
    4.  
      Recovering an auditing database
    5.  
      Recovering an FSA Reporting database
    6.  
      Recovering a Monitoring database
    7.  
      Recovering index locations
    8.  
      Recovering an Enterprise Vault vault store group
    9.  
      Recovering a fingerprint database
    10.  
      Recovering a vault store database
    11.  
      Recovering vault store partition
    12.  
      Recovering Enterprise Vault partitions
    13.  
      Recovering an Enterprise Vault server
    14.  
      Recovering an Enterprise Vault server on a different system
  8. Enterprise Vault Agent support for EV 7.5, 8.0 and later
    1. Policy configuration for Enterprise Vault 8.0 and later versions
      1.  
        Open partition, vault store database, and fingerprint database consistencies
      2.  
        Closed and ready partition consistencies
      3.  
        Index location consistencies
      4.  
        Directory database consistencies
    2. Notes about Enterprise Vault 10.0 backups
      1.  
        Exclude file list for index locations
      2.  
        Exclude file list for vault partitions
    3.  
      Excluding files from the exclude list
    4.  
      Directives for Enterprise Vault 7.5 policy creation
    5.  
      About planning backup schedules
    6.  
      About hosts for Enterprise Vault policies
    7.  
      About Enterprise Vault tools
    8. About Enterprise Vault agent backups
      1.  
        Privileges for Enterprise Vault backup
    9. About Enterprise Vault agent restores
      1.  
        Changing the socket buffer size for large restores
    10.  
      Useful tips about Enterprise Vault agent
    11. Enterprise Vault agent functionality and support for EV 7.5 and later
      1.  
        Differential incremental backup taken after a restore fails for EV 7.5 and later versions
  9. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      About troubleshooting
    2.  
      About debug logging
    3.  
      How to enable debug logging
    4.  
      Setting the debug level
    5.  
      About status reports
    6.  
      About operational reports
    7.  
      About progress reports
    8. About NetBackup status-related troubleshooting information
      1.  
        NetBackup status code 2
      2.  
        NetBackup status code 13
      3.  
        NetBackup status code 39
      4.  
        NetBackup status code 59
      5.  
        NetBackup status code 69
      6. NetBackup status code 156
        1.  
          About the VSS_E_BAD_STATE snapshot error
        2.  
          About the VSS_E_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE snapshot error
      7.  
        NetBackup status code 1800
  10. Appendix A. NetBackup Enterprise Vault Migrator
    1.  
      About the Enterprise Vault Migrator
    2.  
      About configuring a backup policy for migration
    3.  
      About configuring Enterprise Vault for collection and migration
    4.  
      About NetBackup Enterprise Vault migrator registration
    5.  
      Register NetBackup Enterprise Vault migrator
    6.  
      Testing the Enterprise Vault migrator configuration
    7.  
      Setting the recommended DCOM settings
    8. Restoring Enterprise Vault migrated data from NetBackup
      1.  
        Restoring migrated data using the command line interface
      2.  
        Restoring migrated data using a Backup, Archive, and Restore user interface
    9. Troubleshooting the Enterprise Vault migrator
      1.  
        Enterprise Vault migrator version information
      2. About troubleshooting issues with the migrator
        1.  
          Is the data being archived?
        2.  
          Is the data being collected?
        3.  
          Is the migration being configured appropriately?
        4.  
          Is the data being migrated?
      3. About Log Collection
        1.  
          About Enterprise Vault logs
        2.  
          About Enterprise Vault events
        3.  
          About NetBackup logs
  11. EV Online Help
    1.  
      About Restore Marked Files dialog

Directives for Enterprise Vault 7.5 policy creation

This topic contains information about Enterprise Vault 7.5 directives. It also contains suggestions about which directive you should use and when you should use it in a policy.

Table: Understanding which directive to use and when provides recommendations of when you should use the various Enterprise Vault 7.5 directives.

Table: Understanding which directive to use and when

Backup selection

Recommendations

EV_INDEX_LOCATION and EV_OPEN_PARTITIONS

Veritas recommends that you use these directives more frequently that the other directives. In fact, you should schedule these directives to run daily backups. These directives take the backup to a more granular level to protect Enterprise Vault. These directives should be the most preferred backup selections when you want to protect large deployments of Enterprise Vault.

EV_CLOSED_PARTITIONS

Closed partitions can be backed up by a policy that uses the EV_SITE or EV_SERVER directives. However, if these policies are not scheduled, then you can use the EV_CLOSED_PARTITIONS directive in a policy to back up the closed partitions. Closed partitions do not typically change often, so you can schedule a backup with this directive to occur less frequently.

EV_VAULT_STORE_DB and EV_VAULT_STORE_DB=

The EV_OPEN_PARTITIONS directive implicitly backs up the Vault Store database so you would not need to back up the vault store separately. However, if Enterprise Vault collection is enabled, then you should plan to use these directives to back up the vault store database regularly. If collection is not enabled, then you can plan to use these directives before you do any maintenance on the SQL server that hosts these databases. In addition, you should also plan to back up the directory (EV_DIR_DB) and monitoring (EV_MONITORING_DB) databases in the maintenance case.

EV_VAULT_STORE and EV_VAULT_STORE=

Using this directive means data that is not modified regularly is backed up more frequently than it needs to be. Veritas recommends that you use these directives when you want to repair a particular Vault Store or multiple Vault Stores.

EV_SERVER

Using this directive means data that is not modified regularly is backed up more frequently than it needs to be. Veritas recommends that you use this directive for planned maintenance on an Enterprise Vault server.

EV_SITE

Using this directive means data that is not modified regularly is backed up more frequently than it needs to be. Veritas recommends that you use this directive only for small Enterprise Vault setups and if the backup window and media usage is acceptable.