Veritas NetBackup™ in Highly Available Environments Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (9.0)
  1. About in this guide
    1.  
      What's in this guide
    2.  
      Documents related to NetBackup in highly available environments
  2. NetBackup protection against single points of failure
    1. Protecting against component failures
      1.  
        Network link failures
      2. Storage device connection failures
        1.  
          SAN connection failures
        2.  
          Robotic control connection failures
      3.  
        Storage device failure
      4.  
        Media availability failures
      5.  
        Master server failures
      6. Media server failures
        1.  
          Dedicated media server failures
        2.  
          Non-dedicated media servers failures
        3.  
          SAN media server failures
        4.  
          Restoring tape backups using an alternative media server
        5.  
          Restoring disk backups using an alternative media server.
      7.  
        LAN client failures
      8.  
        SAN client failures
    2.  
      Site failures
    3.  
      Protecting catalog in highly available environments
  3. About site disaster recovery with catalog backup and recovery
    1.  
      Disaster recovery packages
    2. About catalog recovery
      1.  
        About full catalog recovery
      2.  
        Performing full catalog restore
      3.  
        Making the DR environment consistent after a full catalog restore
      4.  
        About partial catalog recovery
      5.  
        Performing partial catalog restore
      6.  
        Making the DR environment consistent after a partial catalog restore
    3. About disk recovery in DR domain
      1.  
        Disk recovery in single-domain replication DR environment
      2.  
        Auto Image Replication
      3.  
        Disk recovery in cross-domain replication DR environment
  4. About site loss protection with auto image and catalog replication
    1.  
      About Auto Image Replication (AIR)
    2. About NetBackup catalog replication
      1.  
        About conditions for support of replicated NetBackup catalogs
      2.  
        About catalog synchronization
      3. About multi-site single domain replication
        1.  
          About multi-site single domain with stretched SAN
        2.  
          About multi-site single domain with optimized duplication
      4. About multi-site cross domain replication
        1.  
          About multi-site cross domain and BasicDisk storage
        2.  
          Planning a cross domain replication disaster recovery domain
      5. About full catalog replication
        1.  
          Recovering the catalog with full catalog replication
        2.  
          Making the DR environment consistent with full catalog replication
      6. About partial catalog replication
        1.  
          Preparing an environment for partial catalog replication
        2.  
          Recovering the environment with partial catalog replication
        3.  
          Making the disaster recovery environment consistent with partial catalog replication
        4.  
          Considerations for managing tapes with partial catalog replication
  5. Deploying NetBackup master servers with full catalog replication
    1.  
      About replication considerations
    2. About non-clustered NetBackup master server with catalog replication
      1. Installing and configuring non-clustered NetBackup master server with catalog replication
        1.  
          Installing and configuring the primary NetBackup master server
        2.  
          Installing and configuring secondary NetBackup master server
        3.  
          Upgrading NetBackup master server in a non-clustered replicated configuration
    3. About globally clustered NetBackup master servers with catalog replication
      1. Installing and configuring a globally clustered NetBackup master server with catalog replication
        1.  
          About clustering considerations
        2.  
          Installing and configuring primary NetBackup master server cluster
        3.  
          Installing and configuring secondary NetBackup master server cluster
      2.  
        Populating the server tables in the EMM
      3.  
        Upgrading NetBackup in clustered replication configuration
      4.  
        Failing over to secondary master server cluster
      5.  
        Testing the NetBackup master server cluster in clustered replication environment
  6. Using NetBackup to perform backups and restores in a cluster
    1. About backups and restores with NetBackup in a cluster
      1.  
        Performing user-directed backups with NetBackup in a cluster
      2. About restoring data in a cluster
        1.  
          Example: Performing a user-directed restore in a NetBackup cluster
    2.  
      About supported NetBackup application agents in a cluster
  7.  
    Index

C

catalog backups
disaster recovery packages, Disaster recovery packages
catalog protection
catalog replication, Protecting catalog in highly available environments
(see also catalog repllication)
online catalog backup, Protecting catalog in highly available environments
catalog recovery, About catalog recovery
full catalog recovery, About full catalog recovery
partial catalog recovery, About partial catalog recovery
catalog replication
catalog synchronization, About catalog synchronization
conditions for support, About conditions for support of replicated NetBackup catalogs
considerations (see replication considerations)
full catalog replication, About full catalog replication
multi-site cross domain replication, About multi-site cross domain replication
multi-site single domain, About multi-site single domain replication
partial catalog replication, About partial catalog replication
catalog synchronization, About catalog synchronization
clustered master server
installing primary master server, Installing and configuring primary NetBackup master server cluster
installing seconday master server, Installing and configuring secondary NetBackup master server cluster
server table, Populating the server tables in the EMM
testing with catalog replication, Testing the NetBackup master server cluster in clustered replication environment
upgrade volume, Installing and configuring secondary NetBackup master server cluster
upgrading NetBackup, Upgrading NetBackup in clustered replication configuration

D

database agents, About supported NetBackup application agents in a cluster
dedicated media server protection
storage unit group, Dedicated media server failures
disaster recovery package, Disaster recovery packages
disc recovery, About disk recovery in DR domain

L

LAN client protection, LAN client failures

M

master server protection
clustering, Master server failures
media availability protection
global scratch pool, Media availability failures
media sharing, Media availability failures
media server
restore backup, Restoring tape backups using an alternative media server
multi-site cross domain replication
BasicDisk storage, About multi-site cross domain and BasicDisk storage
multi-site single domain replication, About multi-site single domain replication
optimized duplication, About multi-site single domain with optimized duplication
stretched SAN, About multi-site single domain with stretched SAN

N

NetBackup client in cluster, About supported NetBackup application agents in a cluster
network link protection
redundant network teaming, Network link failures
non-clustered master server
installing primary master server, Installing and configuring the primary NetBackup master server
installing secondary master server, Installing and configuring secondary NetBackup master server
upgrade volume, Installing and configuring secondary NetBackup master server
upgrading NetBackup, Upgrading NetBackup master server in a non-clustered replicated configuration
non-dedicated media server protection
storage unit group, Non-dedicated media servers failures

P

partial catalog recovery, About partial catalog recovery
restoring partial catalog, Performing partial catalog restore
partial catalog replication, About partial catalog replication
point of failure
component, Protecting against component failures
dedicated media server, Dedicated media server failures
LAN client, LAN client failures
master server, Master server failures
media availability, Media availability failures
media server, Media server failures
network link, Network link failures
non-dedicated media server, Non-dedicated media servers failures
SAN client, SAN client failures
SAN media server, SAN media server failures
site, Site failures
storage device, Storage device failure
storage device connection, Storage device connection failures
robotic control connection, Robotic control connection failures
SAN connection, SAN connection failures
protection method
dedicated media server
storage unit group, Dedicated media server failures
LAN client, LAN client failures
master server
clustering, Master server failures
media availability
global scratch pool, Media availability failures
media sharing, Media availability failures
network link
redundant network teaming, Network link failures
non-dedicated media server
storage unit group, Non-dedicated media servers failures
robotic control connection
control server cluster, Robotic control connection failures
redundant connections, Robotic control connection failures
SAN client, SAN client failures
SAN connection
dynamic multi-pathing, SAN connection failures
SAN media server
application cluster, SAN media server failures
site
global cluster, Site failures
storage device
redundant drives, Storage device failure

R

replication considerations, About replication considerations
clustering considerations, About clustering considerations
DNS considerations, About replication considerations
master server considerations, About replication considerations
networking considerations, About replication considerations
restore data in cluster, About restoring data in a cluster
restore full catalog, Performing full catalog restore
restore partial catalog, Performing partial catalog restore
robotic control connection protection
control server cluster, Robotic control connection failures
redundant connections, Robotic control connection failures

S

SAN client protection, SAN client failures
SAN connection protection
dynamic multi-pathing, SAN connection failures
SAN media server protection
application cluster, SAN media server failures
site protection
global cluster, Site failures
storage device protection
redundant drives, Storage device failure