NetBackup™ Clustered Primary Server Administrator's Guide
- Introduction to NetBackup primary server clustering
- NetBackup in a Windows Server Failover Clustering
- About NetBackup on Windows Server Failover Clustering
- Installation prerequisites for NetBackup on WSFC cluster
- Installing a NetBackup failover server on WSFC cluster
- Configuring a NetBackup server on WSFC cluster
- Upgrading a NetBackup failover server on WSFC cluster
- Restoring the cluster quorum
- Restoring the cluster quorum to a node with directory services
- Preparation for disaster recovery of WSFC
- Disaster recovery of WSFC
- Recovering the entire WSFC cluster
- Recovering all shared disks
- About recovering NetBackup data on a shared disk
- NetBackup in a Veritas Cluster Server on Linux
- About NetBackup on a Veritas Cluster Server on Linux
- Installation prerequisites for NetBackup on VCS on Linux
- About preinstallation checklist for a NetBackup failover server installation on VCS on Linux
- Installing a failover NetBackup server on VCS on Linux
- Configuring a failover NetBackup server on VCS on Linux
- About adding a node to existing cluster
- Installing or upgrading NetBackup options on VCS on Linux
- Upgrading a NetBackup failover server on VCS on Linux
- NetBackup in a Veritas Cluster Server on Windows
- About NetBackup in a Veritas Cluster Server on Windows
- About NetBackup agent for VCS on Windows
- Installation prerequisites for NetBackup on VCS on Windows
- Installing a NetBackup failover server on VCS on Windows
- Configuring a NetBackup server on VCS on Windows
- Upgrading a NetBackup failover server on VCS on Windows
- Setting up a detailed monitoring script for the NetBackup server on VCS on Windows
- Enabling detailed monitoring in VCS Cluster Manager for the NetBackup server
- Disabling detailed monitoring in VCS Cluster Manager for the NetBackup server
- NetBackup on RedHat Pacemaker (PCS) on Linux
- Configuring NetBackup
- NetBackup configuration overview
- NetBackup configuration guidelines
- Device configuration guidelines
- Configuring devices
- Configuring NetBackup catalog backups in a cluster
- About configuring backup policies for a NetBackup clustered server
- What to back up
- Guidelines for backing up local disks in a cluster
- Guidelines for backing up the shared disks
- Verifying NetBackup configuration
- Configuring robotic daemons for monitoring (UNIX/Linux clusters)
- Configuring additional services (UNIX/Linux clusters)
- Configuring add-ons for monitoring (UNIX/Linux clusters)
- Configuring additional services (Windows)
- Configuring add-ons for monitoring (Windows)
- About adding license keys
- Operational notes
- Appendix A. NetBackup primary server in a cluster using multiple interfaces
About NetBackup failover server data protection in a cluster
NetBackup protects the data in a cluster environment in several ways.
When NetBackup is installed as a failover server, a NetBackup server is installed on the cluster as a virtual server application. Then the server can fail over from one of the nodes to the other. The server is assigned a network name resource (the virtual server name), an IP address resource, and a disk resource. The NetBackup server fails over from one node to another if a failure occurs on the active node. This failover provides high availability of the NetBackup server itself.
For failover primary servers, the virtual server name is used as the name of the primary server. This virtual name is used for all media servers and clients that use this primary server.
When a failover occurs, the backup jobs that were running are rescheduled with the normal NetBackup retry logic for a failed backup. The NetBackup services are started on another node and the backup processing resumes.
The NetBackup failover primary servers operate in an active-passive failover configuration. The active node and the passive (or failover node) must be the same version of the primary server.
The use of stand-alone media servers and NetBackup clients in a cluster is also briefly described later in this document.