Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Administrator's Guide
- Overview
- About accessing the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- About the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- About appliance console components
- Monitoring the NetBackup appliance
- About hardware monitoring and alerts
- About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup appliance
- Managing a NetBackup appliance from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- About storage configuration
- About Copilot functionality and Share management
- About viewing storage space information using the Show command
- About appliance supported tape devices
- About configuring Host parameters for your appliance
- Manage > Appliance Restore
- Manage > License
- About the Migration Utility
- Software release updates for NetBackup Appliances
- About installing EEBs
- About installing NetBackup Administration Console and client software
- Manage > Additional Servers
- Manage > High Availability
- Managing NetBackup appliance using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- About OpenStorage plugin installation
- About mounting a remote NFS
- About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
- About NetBackup administrator capabilities
- Creating a NetBackup touch file from the NetBackup appliance
- Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
- About NetBackup administrator capabilities
- About Auto Image Replication between appliances
- About forwarding logs to an external server
- About high availability configuration
- About data erasure
- Understanding the NetBackup appliance settings
- Settings > Notifications
- Settings > Network
- Settings > Authentication
- About configuring user authentication
- About authorizing NetBackup appliance users
- Settings > Authentication > LDAP
- Settings > Authentication > Active Directory
- Settings > Authentication > User Management
- Troubleshooting
- Deduplication pool catalog backup and recovery
Installing NetBackup client software through an NFS share
After all appliance configuration has been completed, you can open an NFS share to install NetBackup client software on the UNIX clients that you plan to use with your configured appliance.
Before the installation, make sure that you have downloaded the NetBackup client software package to the appliance and verified that it exists in the following NFS share: <appliance-name>:/inst/client
To install NetBackup client software on a UNIX client through an NFS share
- Log on to the primary appliance from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu with your administrator credentials.
- Add the client host names to the additional servers list of the primary server appliance using the following command:
Main_Menu > Settings > NetBackup AdditionalServers Add
- Open the NFS share using the following command:
Main_Menu > Settings > Share ClientInstall Open
- On the UNIX client host where you want to install the NetBackup client software, log on as root.
- Mount the following NFS share:
<appliance_name>:/inst/client
- On the client, browse the files within the NFS share directory. The following files or directories appear:
NetBackup_8.x_CLIENTS2 and/or NetBackup_8.x_CLIENTS1
.packages
clientconfig
quickinstall.exe
PC_Clnt
docs
unix-client-install
- On the client, use a text editor to open the following file:
/inst/client/clientconfig/defaults.txt
- Add one or more media servers from this NetBackup domain to the ADDITIONALSERVERS entry. Use only the host name to specify a media server. Use a comma-separated list if you want to add multiple media servers.
Example:
PRIMARIESERVER=primary123.test.com ADDITIONALSERVERS=media1.test.com,media2.test.come,media3.test.com
Note:
Media servers that are used for backing up the client hosts are preferred. If you do not know the media servers in this NetBackup domain, run the Main > Settings > NetBackup AdditionalServers Show|ShowAll commands on the primary appliance. You can also check the media servers from the NetBackup Administration Console.
Save the file and exit the editor.
- Create the NetBackup answer file (
NBInstallAnswer.conf
) in the client /tmp directory.Example:
CA_CERTIFICATE_FINGERPRINT=<fingureprint_value> AUTHORIZATION_TOKEN=<token>
More information about the answer file and its contents is available in the NetBackup Installation Guide
- Populate
NBInstallAnswer.conf
with the following information:CA_CERTIFICATE_FINGERPRINT=<fingureprint_value>
Example (the fingerprint value is wrapped for readability):
CA_CERTIFICATE_FINGERPRINT=30:A5:9A:D1:18:F0:01:E4:21:E8:0D:A0:
26:95:14:52:7C:7A:58:B1
Depending on the security configuration in your NetBackup environment, you may need to add the
AUTHORIZATION_TOKEN
option to the answer file.Additional information about the NetBackup answer file is available:
See the NetBackup Installation Guide
Additional information about the CA certificate fingerprint and the authorization token is available:
See the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide
- Run the unix-client-install script.
This action installs the NetBackup client software.
- Check the following file on the client. Make sure that the
bp.conf
file contains the media server names you added to thedefaults.txt
file in Step 8./usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf
- On the appliance, close the shared directory using the following command:
Main > Settings > Share ClientInstall Close
See Downloading NetBackup client packages to a client from a NetBackup appliance.