NetBackup™ 10.1 Application Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0)
Platform: Flex Appliance OS
  1. Product overview
    1.  
      Introduction to NetBackup applications for Flex Appliance
    2.  
      About the Flex Appliance documentation
  2. Release notes
    1.  
      NetBackup 10.1 application new features, enhancements, and changes
    2.  
      Supported upgrade paths to this release
    3.  
      Operational notes
  3. Geting started
    1.  
      Prerequisites before you can create NetBackup application instances
    2.  
      Installing the NetBackup Administration Console and client packages
  4. Creating NetBackup application instances
    1. Creating application instances
      1.  
        Creating a NetBackup primary server instance
      2.  
        Creating a NetBackup media server instance
      3.  
        Creating a NetBackup WORM storage server instance
  5. Managing NetBackup application instances
    1.  
      Managing application instances from Flex Appliance and NetBackup
    2. Accessing NetBackup primary and media server instances for management tasks
      1. Managing users on a primary or a media server instance
        1.  
          Adding and removing local users on a primary or a media server instance
        2.  
          Connecting an Active Directory user domain to a primary or a media server instance
        3.  
          Connecting an LDAP user domain to a primary or a media server instance
        4.  
          Changing a user password on a primary or a media server instance
      2. Running NetBackup commands on a primary or a media server application instance
        1.  
          Creating a NetBackup touch file on a primary or a media server application instance
        2.  
          Installing NetBackup notify scripts on a primary or a media server application instance
      3.  
        Monitoring NetBackup services on a NetBackup primary server instance
      4.  
        Mounting an NFS share on a NetBackup primary server instance
      5.  
        Setting environment variables on primary and media server instances
      6.  
        Storing custom data on a primary or a media server instance
      7.  
        Modifying or disabling the nbdeployutil utility on a primary server instance
      8.  
        Disabling SMB server signing on a media server instance
      9.  
        Using a primary server instance for disaster recovery
    3. Accessing NetBackup WORM storage server instances for management tasks
      1. Managing users from the deduplication shell
        1.  
          Adding and removing local users from the deduplication shell
        2.  
          Adding MSDP users from the deduplication shell
        3.  
          Connecting an Active Directory domain to a WORM storage server for Universal Shares and Instant Access
        4.  
          Disconnecting an Active Directory domain from the deduplication shell
        5.  
          Changing a user password from the deduplication shell
      2.  
        Managing VLAN interfaces from the deduplication shell
      3.  
        Viewing the lockdown mode on a WORM storage server
      4.  
        Managing the retention policy on a WORM storage server
      5.  
        Managing images with a retention lock on a WORM storage server
      6.  
        Auditing WORM retention changes
      7. Managing certificates from the deduplication shell
        1.  
          Viewing the certificate details from the deduplication shell
        2.  
          Importing certificates from the deduplication shell
        3.  
          Removing certificates from the deduplication shell
      8.  
        Managing FIPS mode from the deduplication shell
      9.  
        Encrypting backups from the deduplication shell
      10. Configuring an isolated recovery environment on a WORM storage server
        1.  
          Configuring data transmission between a production environment and an IRE WORM storage server
      11.  
        Managing an isolated recovery environment on a WORM storage server
      12.  
        Tuning the MSDP configuration from the deduplication shell
      13.  
        Setting the MSDP log level from the deduplication shell
      14. Managing NetBackup services from the deduplication shell
        1.  
          Managing the cyclic redundancy checking (CRC) service
        2.  
          Managing the content router queue processing (CRQP) service
        3.  
          Managing the online checking service
        4.  
          Managing the compaction service
        5.  
          Managing the deduplication (MSDP) services
        6.  
          Managing the Storage Platform Web Service (SPWS)
        7.  
          Managing the Veritas provisioning file system (VPFS) mounts
        8.  
          Managing the NGINX service
        9.  
          Managing the SMB service
      15. Monitoring and troubleshooting NetBackup services from the deduplication shell
        1.  
          About the support command

Mounting an NFS share on a NetBackup primary server instance

You can configure the NetBackup catalog backup policy to send disaster recovery files to a Network File System (NFS) share. Use the following procedure to mount an NFS share on a primary server application instance for disaster recovery.

To mount the NFS share and configure the catalog backup policy:

  1. On the NFS server, create a user with the user ID 1000 and the group ID 100. You do not need to do this step if a user with these credentials already exists.

    To create the user, run the following command:

    useradd <username> -u 1000 -g 100

    Where <username> is the username of the new user.

  2. On the NFS server, navigate to /etc/exports and add the following directive:

    <NFS directory> <primary IP address>(rw,no_root_squash)

    Where <NFS directory> is the directory for the NFS share, and <primary IP address> is the IP address of the primary server instance.

    For example:

    /nfsdir 11.11.11.111(rw,no_root_squash)

  3. Restart the NFS service.
  4. Log in to the primary server instance as the appadmin user and run the following commands:

    $ sudo bash

    bash-4.2# cat > /mnt/nbdata/vxos/etc/fstab

    <NFS IP address>:<NFS directory> /mnt/nbcatdr nfs v<NFS version>,rw,x-mount.mkdir

    Where <NFS IP address> is the IP address of the NFS server, <NFS directory> is the directory for the NFS share, and <NFS version> is either 3 or 4.

    For example:

    22.22.22.222:/nfsdir /mnt/nbcatdr nfs v3,rw,x-mount.mkdir

  5. From the NetBackup Administration Console, use the Backup Policy Configuration Wizard to configure a backup policy with the type NBU-Catalog. Specify the following information for the catalog disaster recovery file:

    • Path: /mnt/nbcatdr/

    • Logon: appadmin

    • Password: Your appadmin user password

    For more information about the catalog backup policy, see the chapter "Protecting the NetBackup Catalog" in the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.