Veritas NetBackup™ OpenStorage Solutions Guide for Disk
- Introducing disk appliance storage solutions
- Planning your deployment
- Planning your OpenStorage deployment
- About OpenStorage requirements and limitations
- About OpenStorage storage servers for backups
- About OpenStorage server credentials
- About OpenStorage data movers for backups
- About the OpenStorage plug-in
- About OpenStorage disk pools for backups
- About OpenStorage optimized duplication and replication
- About OpenStorage optimized synthetic backups
- About storage unit groups for OpenStorage
- About OpenStorage direct to tape
- Provisioning the storage
- Licensing OpenStorage
- Configuring OpenStorage in NetBackup
- Configuring OpenStorage disk appliance storage
- Configuring an OpenStorage storage server for backups
- Configuring an OpenStorage disk pool for backups
- Configuring an OpenStorage storage unit
- Configuring OpenStorage optimized synthetic backups
- Configuring OpenStorage direct to tape
- Configuring optimized duplication to an OpenStorage device within the same NetBackup domain
- Configuring replication to an OpenStorage device in a different domain
- About storage lifecycle policies
- About the storage lifecycle policies required for Auto Image Replication
- Creating a storage lifecycle policy
- Creating a backup policy
- Adding OpenStorage functionality to an existing environment
- Managing OpenStorage
- Managing OpenStorage storage servers
- Viewing OpenStorage storage servers
- Determining OpenStorage storage server state
- Changing OpenStorage storage server properties
- Setting OpenStorage storage server attributes
- Removing OpenStorage storage server attributes
- Updating an OpenStorage storage server to reflect plug-in updates
- Deleting an OpenStorage storage server
- Managing OpenStorage server credentials
- Managing OpenStorage data movers
- Managing OpenStorage disk pools
- Viewing OpenStorage disk pools
- Determining OpenStorage disk pool state
- Changing OpenStorage disk pool state
- Determining OpenStorage disk volume state
- Changing OpenStorage disk volume state
- Changing OpenStorage disk pool properties
- Setting OpenStorage disk pool attributes
- Removing OpenStorage disk pool attributes
- Adding volumes to an OpenStorage disk pool
- Merging OpenStorage disk pools
- Removing a volume from an OpenStorage disk pool
- Updating an OpenStorage disk pool to reflect plug-in updates
- Deleting an OpenStorage disk pool
- Monitoring OpenStorage storage capacity and usage
- Viewing OpenStorage disk reports
- Reporting on Auto Image Replication jobs
- About catalog backups to OpenStorage devices
- About restoring from OpenStorage backup copies
- About restoring from a backup at a target master domain
- Managing OpenStorage storage servers
- Troubleshooting
About spanning volumes in OpenStorage disk pools
One of the capabilities a vendor may expose is the potential for images to span across volumes within a disk pool. NetBackup uses that capability to use the disk storage most effectively. NetBackup breaks up backup images into fragments and stores a fragment or fragments if a full image does not fit into the space available.
In NetBackup, the SpanImages attribute specifies that backup images can span across volumes in a disk pool. The SpanImages attribute applies to both storage servers and disk pools.
Volume spanning is not a trait that the OpenStorage vendor plug-in exposes. Therefore, by default NetBackup does not include the SpanImages attribute on storage servers and disk pools. You must set the SpanImages attribute on the storage server and the disk pools so that backup images span volumes.
See Setting OpenStorage storage server attributes.
See Setting OpenStorage disk pool attributes.
NetBackup does not support disk volume spanning for replication. NetBackup fails backup jobs to the disk pools that span volumes if the backup job is in a storage lifecycle policy that also contains a replication operation.