Veritas Access Appliance 8.2 Solutions Guide for NetBackup

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Product(s): Appliances (8.2)
Platform: Veritas 3340,Veritas 3350,Veritas 3360
  1. Access Appliance integration with NetBackup
    1.  
      About Access Appliance as a NetBackup client
    2.  
      About Access Appliance as backup storage for NetBackup
    3.  
      Use cases for long-term data retention
  2. System requirements
    1.  
      Supported configurations and versions for NetBackup with Veritas Data Deduplication
    2.  
      Supported configurations and versions for NetBackup with MSDP-C
  3. Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication with Access Appliance
    1.  
      About Veritas Data Deduplication
    2.  
      Benefits of using Veritas Data Deduplication with Access Appliance
    3.  
      Supported features with different versions of Veritas Data Deduplication
    4. Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication without WORM
      1.  
        Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication using the GUI
      2.  
        Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication using the Access CLISH
    5. Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication with WORM
      1.  
        Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication with WORM using GUI
      2.  
        Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication with WORM using the Access CLISH
    6.  
      Managing Veritas Data Deduplication using the Access CLISH
    7. Managing Veritas Data Deduplication using GUI
      1.  
        Viewing information about Veritas Data Deduplication
      2.  
        Starting or stopping the Veritas Data Deduplication service
      3.  
        Increasing storage for Veritas Data Deduplication
      4.  
        Unconfiguring Veritas Data Deduplication
      5.  
        Adding secondary IP for Veritas Data Deduplication
      6.  
        Deleting secondary IP for Veritas Data Deduplication
      7.  
        Changing the primary IP for Veritas Data Deduplication
      8.  
        Upgrade the deduplication version for Veritas Data Deduplication
      9.  
        Setting affinity node for Veritas Data Deduplication
    8. Accessing Access Appliance storage shell for management tasks
      1. About the Access Appliance storage server shell
        1. About the dedupe command
          1.  
            Stopping and starting the MSDP services
        2.  
          About the retention command
        3.  
          About the setting command
        4.  
          About the support command
    9.  
      Support for multiple domains across networks for Veritas Data Deduplication
    10.  
      Veritas Data Deduplication storage layout
    11.  
      Configuring a Veritas Data Deduplication storage unit on NetBackup
    12.  
      Configuring global deduplication using the Veritas Data Deduplication storage server across the domain
    13.  
      Enabling Veritas Data Deduplication encryption
    14.  
      Support for bandwidth throttling during duplication
    15.  
      Setting up secure communication between Veritas Data Deduplication on Access Appliance and the NetBackup primary server
    16.  
      About MSDP encryption using NetBackup KMS service
    17. Support for NetBackup Auto Image Replication
      1.  
        Separating the duplication and replication network
    18.  
      Setting up Auto Image Replication (AIR) between two Access Appliances which have secure communication enabled
  4. NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle
    1.  
      Support for NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle
  5. Configuring MSDP-C with Access Appliance
    1.  
      Starting the Access S3 server and provisioning the S3 bucket
    2.  
      Configuring Access S3 bucket with NetBackup MSDP-C
  6. Migrating the NetBackup images from existing storage to Veritas Access storage
    1.  
      Migrating NetBackup images from CloudCatalyst/S3/MSDP-C to Veritas Data Deduplication storage
    2.  
      Migrating the NetBackup images from the Veritas Data Deduplication STU to the MSDP-C STU
  7. Configuring Access Appliance with the NetBackup client
    1.  
      Configuring Access Appliance for NetBackup client
    2.  
      Installing the NetBackup client add-on packages
    3.  
      Prerequisites for configuring the NetBackup client
    4.  
      Configuring the NetBackup client
    5.  
      Adding an optional media server
    6.  
      Adding multiple primary servers
    7.  
      Adding file systems to the backup configuration
    8.  
      Removing file systems from backup configuration
    9.  
      Changing the virtual IP address used by the NetBackup client
    10.  
      Upgrade the NetBackup client
    11.  
      Unconfiguring the NetBackup client
    12.  
      Enabling Veritas Data Deduplication catalog backup with NetBackup client
    13.  
      Disabling Veritas Data Deduplication catalog backup from NetBackup client
    14.  
      Displaying the status of NetBackup services
    15.  
      Configuring backup operations using NetBackup or other third-party backup applications
    16.  
      Restoring filesystems backed up with NetBackup client
  8. Configuring isolated recovery environment (IRE)
    1.  
      Requirements
    2.  
      Configuring the network isolation
    3.  
      Configuring an isolated recovery environment using the command line
    4.  
      Configuring an isolated recovery environment on a storage server
    5.  
      Managing an isolated recovery environment on a storage server
    6.  
      Configuring data transmission between a production environment and an IRE storage server
  9. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Additional resources
    2.  
      Generating Access Appliance S3 server keys using the helper script
  10.  
    Index

Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication with WORM

You can configure Veritas Data Deduplication with WORM using both the Access Appliance GUI and command-line interface. Veritas recommends that you configure Veritas Data Deduplication usng the GUI as it ensures that the configuration is performed with the appropriate filesystem size, and volume layout along with catalog filesystem creation.

You can configure Veritas Data Deduplication with WORM when the lockdown mode is Enterprise or Compliance.

For more information, see the About lockdown modes section in the Access Appliance Administrator's Guide.

Note:

When you provision storage using the GUI or the command-line interface, specify the storage pool size and the size configured for Veritas Data Deduplication in MiB, GiB, TiB, or PiB. You can also specify the input size in decimal values.

Support for multiple Veritas Data Deduplication pools

Two Veritas Data Deduplication pools are supported on Access Appliance. The pools can be any combination of WORM and non-WORM instances. Veritas supports converting an existing Veritas Data Deduplication pool (without WORM) to a Veritas Data Deduplication pool with WORM.

Enabling Veritas Data Deduplication with WORM

You can enable Veritas Data Deduplication with WORM using the following command:

# dedupe enable-worm <minret> <maxret> <config_name>

minret

Specifies the minimum image retention period. It can contain: [1-9](s|S).

maxret

Specifies the maximum image retention period. It can contain: [1-9](s|S).

config_name

Name for the deduplication service. Default value is msdp-engine.

Note:

This is an optional parameter when the first deduplication server is configured. It is mandatory when you configure the second deduplication server.

Migrating non-WORM Veritas Data Deduplication to a WORM capable Veritas Data Deduplication

Access Appliance supports in-line migration of non-WORM Veritas Data Deduplication server to a WORM capable Veritas Data Deduplication server. When you upgrade to Access 8.1, non-WORM Veritas Data Deduplication server is unconfigured and has to reconfigured again. Once it is reconfigured, you can change the lockdown mode from Normal to either Enterprise or Compliance mode. Then, you can change the deduplication pool to a WORM capable pool using the dedupe enable worm command. This command converts the existing non-WORM pool to a WORM capable pool, without any loss of data. You must update the storage unit in the NetBackup primary server to enable WORM on it so that the new images getting duplicated to this STU are WORM-enabled. Alternatively, you can continue to use the existing STU for storing non-WORM backups and create a new STU which is WORM-enabled, for storing WORM-enabled backups.

The old images stored in the pool are not WORM-enabled. To make the older images WORM-enabled:

Method 1

  1. Duplicate the non-WORM images from the Access Appliance storage pool to another Veritas Data Deduplication or MSDP-C storage pool.

  2. Expire these images from the Access Appliance storage pool.

  3. Duplicate these images back onto the Access Appliance storage pool using the WORM-enabled storage unit.

Method 2

You can convert non-WORM images to WORM-enabled images using the NetBackup GUI.

  1. Update the disk pool in the NetBackup UI to refresh the WORM status of the pool.

  2. Create a new storage unit using the same disk pool, and select the Use WORM option for the new storage unit.

  3. Using NetBackup UI, list down all the images in the catalog.

  4. Select the duplicate option for each image, and select the WORM enabled STU.

Method 3

You can convert non-WORM images to WORM-enabled images using the NetBackup command line.

  1. Run the bpimagelist command to list down the images you want to duplicate.

  2. Run the bpduplicate command to duplicate the images to the WORM STU.