NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide

To set up a policy for NAS data protection

1. Open the NetBackup Administration Console.
2. Click NetBackup Management > Policies in the left pane.
3. In the All Policies pane, right-click and create a new one.
4. From the Policy type list, select NAS-Data-Protection
5. From the Policy Storage list, select Storage Lifecycle Policy for backup from snapshots.
6. The Perform snapshot backups option is selected by default.
7. (Optional) Select the Take checkpoints every check box and enter a value in minutes.
8. (Optional) To track changes between two snapshots, select the Enable vendor change tracking for incremental backups check box.

   Note:

   At a given time, you can only use either the Enable vendor change tracking for incremental backups or the Use Accelerator check-box.

9. Click Options and set a value for the following parameters:

   • Snapshot Type

   • Snapshot Host

     Note:

     The Snapshot Type Auto is supported only with NetBackup client version 10.0 onwards.

10. In the Dynamic Data Streaming Attributes section, the Allow dynamic streaming option is selected by default. Configure the following attributes:

    Note:

    With this setting, the Allow multiple data streams option is also selected.

    • Maximum number of streams per volume

      The number of streams per volume must be between 1 to 20. The default value is 4.

    • Maximum number of files in a batch

      The number of files in a batch must be between 1 to 2000. The default value is 300.

11. (Optional) Select the Use Accelerator check box.
    

    Note:

    At a given time, you can use either Enable vendor change tracking for incremental backups or the Use Accelerator check box.

12. On the Schedules tab, set the required attributes for the schedule.

    Note:

    For Instant Recovery, only Snapshots and copy snapshots to a storage unit is supported and is selected by default.

13. On the Clients tab, from the NAS Vendor list, select the preferred vendor.
14. Click New to add a new client.
15. On the Backup Selections tab, select the preferred protocol.

    • NFS

    • SMB

16. (Optional) If you want to want to use volumes that support both NFS and SMB protocol, select the Include Mixed Volume check box.
    
17. From the Backup Host Pool list, select the preferred pool and click New. If no backup host pools of the relevant type are available, you can see a dialog prompting you to create one, click Yes in the dialog to create one.

    Note:

    If Backup host pool contains any backup host older than NetBackup 10.0 and Auto snapshot type is selected, the job may fail.

    
18. In the Add Backup Selection dialog box, click Browse.

    If you add a subdirectory from volume in the backup selection then the policy validation fails.

19. In the NAS Assets Selection section, select the preferred volumes and click OK.
    
20. On the Exclude Volumes tab, in the Volume to exclude field, add the preferred volumes that you don't want to backup.
21. Click OK.