NetBackup™ for Enterprise Vault™ Agent Administrator's Guide

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  1. Introduction to NetBackup Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      About Enterprise Vault
    2.  
      About the NetBackup Enterprise Vault Agent
    3.  
      About the Enterprise Vault Agent and the backup components
    4.  
      Enterprise Vault agent features
    5.  
      Enterprise Vault agent requirements
  2. Installing NetBackup for Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      Planning the installation of NetBackup for Enterprise Vault
    2.  
      Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
    3.  
      NetBackup server and client requirements
    4.  
      About Enterprise Vault agent installation requirements in a cluster
    5.  
      Configuring Enterprise Vault Agent to protect Enterprise Vault databases
    6.  
      License for NetBackup for Enterprise Vault
  3. Configuration
    1.  
      Specifying a logon account for the Enterprise Vault server
    2.  
      About VSS-based snapshot configuration
    3.  
      Configuring the local media server for Enterprise Vault backup
    4.  
      Configuration requirements for an Enterprise Vault backup policy
    5.  
      Adding an Enterprise Vault policy
    6.  
      Enterprise Vault backup policy attributes
    7.  
      Adding schedules to an Enterprise Vault policy
    8.  
      About the types of Enterprise Vault backups
    9.  
      Creating a backup selections list
    10.  
      Adding a client to a policy
  4. About features provided by Enterprise Vault for a backup provider
    1.  
      About Enterprise Vault quiescence before a backup
    2.  
      About granular quiescence
    3.  
      About managing safety copies and backups
    4.  
      About the partition secure notification file
    5.  
      About the archive bit
  5. Performing backups of Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      About Enterprise Vault directives and what data they back up
    2.  
      Manually backing up Enterprise Vault resources
    3.  
      Canceling an Enterprise Vault backup job from the Activity monitor
  6. Performing restores of Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      Important notes about Enterprise Vault data restore
    2.  
      Stopping the administrative services on Enterprise Vault servers
    3.  
      About the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface
    4.  
      Viewing backup data using the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
    5.  
      Restoring Enterprise Vault data
    6.  
      About the Enterprise Vault restore options on the General tab
    7.  
      About the Enterprise Vault Database Settings tab
    8.  
      Specifying the server, clients, and policy type for restores
    9.  
      About restoring Enterprise Vault file system data
    10.  
      Restoring an Enterprise Vault file system component
    11. About restoring Enterprise Vault SQL databases
      1.  
        About backup image restore sets
    12.  
      Restoring Enterprise Vault SQL database components
  7. Disaster recovery
    1.  
      Disaster recovery requirements for Enterprise Vault server
    2.  
      About disaster recovery of an Enterprise Vault site
    3.  
      Recovering a directory database
    4.  
      Recovering an auditing database
    5.  
      Recovering an FSA Reporting database
    6.  
      Recovering a Monitoring database
    7.  
      Recovering index locations
    8.  
      Recovering an Enterprise Vault vault store group
    9.  
      Recovering a fingerprint database
    10.  
      Recovering a vault store database
    11.  
      Recovering vault store partition
    12.  
      Recovering Enterprise Vault partitions
    13.  
      Recovering an Enterprise Vault server
    14.  
      Recovering an Enterprise Vault server on a different system
  8. Enterprise Vault Agent support for Enterprise Vault
    1. Policy configuration for Enterprise Vault
      1.  
        Open partition, vault store database, and fingerprint database consistencies
      2.  
        Closed and ready partition consistencies
      3.  
        Index location consistencies
      4.  
        Directory database consistencies
    2. Notes about Enterprise Vault 10.0 backups
      1.  
        Exclude file list for index locations
      2.  
        Exclude file list for vault partitions
    3.  
      Excluding files from the exclude list
    4.  
      About planning backup schedules
    5.  
      About hosts for Enterprise Vault policies
    6.  
      About Enterprise Vault tools
    7. About Enterprise Vault agent backups
      1.  
        Privileges for Enterprise Vault backup
    8. About Enterprise Vault agent restores
      1.  
        Changing the socket buffer size for large restores
    9.  
      Useful tips about Enterprise Vault agent
    10. Enterprise Vault agent functionality and support for Enterprise Vault
      1.  
        Differential incremental backup taken after a restore fails for Enterprise Vault
  9. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      About troubleshooting
    2.  
      About debug logging
    3.  
      How to enable debug logging
    4.  
      Setting the debug level
    5.  
      About status reports
    6.  
      About operational reports
    7.  
      About progress reports
    8. About NetBackup status-related troubleshooting information
      1.  
        NetBackup status code 2
      2.  
        NetBackup status code 13
      3.  
        NetBackup status code 39
      4.  
        NetBackup status code 59
      5.  
        NetBackup status code 69
      6. NetBackup status code 156
        1.  
          About the VSS_E_BAD_STATE snapshot error
        2.  
          About the VSS_E_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE snapshot error
      7.  
        NetBackup status code 1800
  10. Appendix A. NetBackup Enterprise Vault Migrator
    1.  
      About the Enterprise Vault Migrator
    2.  
      Configuring a backup policy for migration
    3.  
      About configuring Enterprise Vault for collection and migration
    4.  
      Testing the Enterprise Vault migrator configuration
    5.  
      Setting the recommended DCOM settings
    6. Restoring Enterprise Vault migrated data from NetBackup
      1.  
        Restoring migrated data using the command line interface
      2.  
        Restoring migrated data using a Backup, Archive, and Restore user interface
    7. Troubleshooting the Enterprise Vault migrator
      1.  
        Enterprise Vault migrator version information
      2. About troubleshooting issues with the migrator
        1.  
          Is the data being archived?
        2.  
          Is the data being collected?
        3.  
          Is the migration being configured appropriately?
        4.  
          Is the data being migrated?
      3. About Log Collection
        1.  
          About Enterprise Vault logs
        2.  
          About Enterprise Vault events
        3.  
          About NetBackup logs

About restoring Enterprise Vault SQL databases

You can categorize an Enterprise Vault SQL database component as one of the following databases:

  • A directory database

  • A monitoring database

  • An FSA Reporting database

  • An auditing database

  • A fingerprint database

  • A .NDF datafile

  • A vault store database

Note:

Restoring multiple Enterprise Vault images in one restore operation is not supported in this release. Veritas recommends that you restore one backup image at a time. Selecting multiple backup images in a single restore job may give unpredictable results.

Review the following notes before you attempt to restore an Enterprise Vault SQL database:

  • Restore full and incremental backups one at a time.

  • When you do a redirected restore, you must select the Redirected restore option and specify the alternate SQL instance name and database name. (This requirement applies to each restore in the restore set.) The SQL instance name always contains the system name. (For default instances, the system name is the instance name.)

  • The Enterprise Vault agent cannot restore data and log files (.MDF and .LDF files) of an Enterprise Vault SQL database to a physical path that is different from the original physical path. As a result, the Enterprise Vault SQL restore is affected as follows:

    • The drive (C:/ or D:/) used by these files at backup time is available at the restore time (in the destination client).

    • In the redirected restore, if a new path (SQL instance or database name) already exists and it is associated with some other physical files. The database becomes associated with the new physical files after the restore completes. The physical files of the old database become dangling files and are no longer associated with a database.

    • In the redirected restore, if the physical files to be restored are present and associated with some other database, manually take the database offline. If you do not take the database offline, the restore cannot overwrite those files.