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NetBackup™ NAS Administrator's Guide
Last Published:
2025-03-18
Product(s):
NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (11.0)
- Section I. About NAS backups
- Section II. Using NAS-Data-Protection (D-NAS)
- D-NAS overview
- D-NAS Planning and Tuning
- Pre-requisites for D-NAS configuration
- Configuring Storage Lifecyle Policies for D-NAS
- Snapshot operation in SLP
- Index from snapshot operation in an SLP
- Retention types for SLP operations
- Volume multi-host backup
- Configure D-NAS policy for NAS backups
- Configuring the Start window
- Using Accelerator
- Using Vendor Change Tracking
- Using true image restore
- Replication using D-NAS policy
- Restoring from D-NAS backups
- Multi-stream restores from D-NAS backups
- Multi-stream restores from D-NAS backups
- Troubleshooting
- Section III. Using NDMP
- Introduction to NetBackup for NDMP
- About NetBackup for NDMP
- Types of NDMP backup
- About assigning tape drives to different hosts
- Installation Notes for NetBackup for NDMP
- Configuring NDMP backup to NDMP-attached devices
- About Media and Device Management configuration
- Using the Device Configuration Wizard to configure an NDMP filer
- About creating an NDMP policy
- Backup selection options for an NDMP policy
- About enabling or disabling DAR
- Configuring NDMP backup to NetBackup media servers (remote NDMP)
- Configuring NDMP DirectCopy
- Accelerator for NDMP
- Remote NDMP and disk devices
- Using the Shared Storage Option (SSO) with NetBackup for NDMP
- NAS appliance information for NDMP
- Vendor-specific information
- EMC Celerra
- NetApp
- Using NetBackup with NetApp's Data ONTAP 8.2 cluster mode
- Using NetBackup with NetApp's Data ONTAP 8.2 cluster mode
- Backup and restore procedures
- Troubleshooting
- Using NetBackup for NDMP scripts
- Introduction to NetBackup for NDMP
Configuring backup selections
The
tab contains a list of what to back up on each client, host, or instance when NetBackup runs an automatic schedule (for example, a full backup). The list does not apply to user backups or archives, where users select the shares/volumes to back up before they start the operation.To configure backup selections:
- On the left, click Policies, under Protection. Click the Schedules tab. Under Backup schedules, click Add. Click the Backup selections tab.
- Select NFS or SMB as required.
- (Optional) Select Include mixed volumes to select the volumes protected by both NFS and SMB protocols, under Backup selections.
- From the Backup host pool dropdown, select any of the following:
From the Backup host pool dropdown, select any of the following:
Select an already created backup host.
Select All media server pool. See About the All media server pool option .
Select Create new backup host pool to create a new backup host pool. See Configuring a backup host pool .
If you have not created a backup host pool already, the Backup selections dialog box appears. Click Yes to configure. See Configuring a backup host pool .
- From the Backup host pool list, select the preferred pool, and select one or more required volumes from the table.
- To add a new volume, click Add.
In the Add backup selection dialog, do one of the following:
From the Pathname or directive list, select the preferred and click Add to list.
Click Browse and select the preferred.
Click Add.
- Click Save to save the backup selection.