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Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2020-05-05

Product(s): Appliances (3.2)

Platform: NetBackup Appliance OS

Creating a Protection Point for a NetBackup Appliance Universal Share

You can create a Protection Point for the data in a Universal Share that lets you manage and protect the data in the share. Creating a Protection Point is accomplished by creating a Standard backup policy.

If a NetBackup Appliance is configured with multiple Universal Shares, a single policy can be created for some or all of the shares. You can also create individual policies, one for each share. If multiple appliances are configured with Universal Shares, each appliance should be configured with its own specific policy to protect the Universal Share(s) on that appliance.

To create a Protection Point policy for a NetBackup Appliance Universal Share

Create a Universal Share on the appliance using the NetBackup Appliance Web Console or the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.
For details, see the NetBackup Copilot for Oracle Configuration Guide.
Mount the exported path of the Universal Share on the NFS client server.
Copy your application data to the Universal Share.
In NetBackup, on the Attributes tab, create a Standard policy.
On the Schedules tab, select either FULL or INCR.
Note:
Accelerator backups are not supported or necessary for Universal Shares.
On the Clients tab, enter the name of the NetBackup Appliance where the Universal Share resides.
Select the Backup Selections tab and perform the following actions in the order listed:
- Add the USHARE directive.
  USHARE is a keyword within the directive and it must be placed first in the Backup Selections tab.
- (Optional) Add the NEW_STREAM directive if you require multistream backup.
- Add the mounted path on the NFS client server and the exported path of the Universal Share.
  BACKUP /
  - Enter the BACKUP X USING Y directive in the Backup Selections tab. For example: BACKUP /mounted/MOUNTED USING /shares/EXPORTED
    If the Universal Share is mounted on a Windows system, C:\mounted\MOUNTED, use the /C:/mounted/MOUNTED format for the BACKUP path.
    You can add multiple shares in a policy. If you want to group several shares into one backup job, use the NEW_STREAM directive.
Enter the host name of the client where the Universal Share is mounted.
Run the Standard policy.
After the backups are created, you can manage the backups with NetBackup features, such as restore, duplication, Auto Image Replication, and others.
You can immediately access the backups with NetBackup Instant Access APIs.
For information about NetBackup APIs, see the following website:
https://sort.veritas.com/documents
Select NetBackup and then the version at the bottom of the page.