NetBackup™ 10.0 Application Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (2.1.4, 2.1.3, 2.1.2, 2.1.1, 2.1)
Platform: Flex Appliance OS
  1. Product overview
    1.  
      Introduction to NetBackup applications for Flex Appliance
    2.  
      About the Flex Appliance documentation
  2. Release notes
    1.  
      NetBackup 10.0 application new features, enhancements, and changes
    2.  
      Supported upgrade paths to this release
    3.  
      Operational notes
  3. Geting started
    1.  
      Prerequisites before you can create NetBackup application instances
    2.  
      Installing the NetBackup Administration Console and client packages
  4. Creating NetBackup application instances
    1. Creating application instances
      1.  
        Creating a NetBackup primary server instance
      2.  
        Creating a NetBackup media server instance
      3.  
        Creating a NetBackup WORM storage server instance
  5. Managing NetBackup application instances
    1.  
      Managing application instances from Flex Appliance and NetBackup
    2. Accessing NetBackup primary and media server instances for management tasks
      1. Managing users on a primary or media server instance
        1.  
          Adding and removing local users on a primary or media server instance
        2.  
          Connecting an Active Directory user domain to a primary or a media server instance
        3.  
          Connecting an LDAP user domain to a primary or a media server instance
        4.  
          Changing a user password on a primary or media server instance
      2. Running NetBackup commands on a primary or media server application instance
        1.  
          Creating a NetBackup touch file on a primary or media server application instance
        2.  
          Installing NetBackup notify scripts on a primary or media server application instance
      3.  
        Monitoring NetBackup services on a NetBackup primary server instance
      4.  
        Mounting an NFS share on a NetBackup primary server instance
      5.  
        Setting environment variables on primary and media server instances
      6.  
        Storing custom data on a primary or media server instance
      7.  
        Modifying or disabling the nbdeployutil utility on a primary server instance
      8.  
        Disabling SMB server signing on a media server instance
      9.  
        Establishing trust with a NetBackup 7.7.3 primary server instance
    3. Accessing NetBackup WORM storage server instances for management tasks
      1. About the NetBackup WORM storage server shell
        1.  
          About the dedupe command
        2.  
          About the retention command
        3.  
          About the setting command
        4.  
          About the support command
      2.  
        Configuring an isolated recovery environment on a Flex Appliance WORM storage server instance
      3.  
        Managing an isolated recovery environment on a Flex Appliance WORM storage server instance

Mounting an NFS share on a NetBackup primary server instance

You can configure the NetBackup catalog backup policy to send disaster recovery files to a Network File System (NFS) share. Use the following procedure to mount an NFS share on a primary server application instance for disaster recovery.

To mount the NFS share and configure the catalog backup policy:

  1. On the NFS server, create a user with the user ID 1000 and the group ID 100. You do not need to do this step if a user with these credentials already exists.

    To create the user, run the following command:

    useradd <username> -u 1000 -g 100

    Where <username> is the username of the new user.

  2. On the NFS server, navigate to /etc/exports and add the following directive:

    <NFS directory> <primary IP address>(rw,no_root_squash)

    Where <NFS directory> is the directory for the NFS share, and <primary IP address> is the IP address of the primary server instance.

    For example:

    /nfsdir 11.11.11.111(rw,no_root_squash)

  3. Restart the NFS service.
  4. Log in to the primary server instance as the appadmin user and run the following commands:

    $ sudo bash

    bash-4.2# cat > /mnt/nbdata/vxos/etc/fstab

    <NFS IP address>:<NFS directory> /mnt/nbcatdr nfs v<NFS version>,rw,x-mount.mkdir

    Where <NFS IP address> is the IP address of the NFS server, <NFS directory> is the directory for the NFS share, and <NFS version> is either 3 or 4.

    For example:

    22.22.22.222:/nfsdir /mnt/nbcatdr nfs v3,rw,x-mount.mkdir

  5. From the NetBackup Administration Console, use the Backup Policy Configuration Wizard to configure a backup policy with the type NBU-Catalog. Specify the following information for the catalog disaster recovery file:

    • Path: /mnt/nbcatdr/

    • Logon: appadmin

    • Password: Your appadmin user password

    For more information about the catalog backup policy, see the chapter "Protecting the NetBackup Catalog" in the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.