NetBackup™ for Enterprise Vault™ Agent Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.5)
  1. Introduction to NetBackup Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      About Enterprise Vault
    2.  
      About the NetBackup Enterprise Vault Agent
    3.  
      About the Enterprise Vault Agent and the backup components
    4.  
      Enterprise Vault agent features
    5.  
      Enterprise Vault agent requirements
  2. Installing NetBackup for Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      Planning the installation of NetBackup for Enterprise Vault
    2.  
      Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
    3.  
      NetBackup server and client requirements
    4.  
      About Enterprise Vault agent installation requirements in a cluster
    5.  
      Configuring Enterprise Vault Agent to protect Enterprise Vault databases
    6.  
      License for NetBackup for Enterprise Vault
  3. Configuration
    1.  
      Specifying a logon account for the Enterprise Vault server
    2.  
      About VSS-based snapshot configuration
    3.  
      Configuring the local media server for Enterprise Vault backup
    4.  
      Configuration requirements for an Enterprise Vault backup policy
    5.  
      Adding an Enterprise Vault policy
    6.  
      Enterprise Vault backup policy attributes
    7.  
      Adding schedules to an Enterprise Vault policy
    8.  
      About the types of Enterprise Vault backups
    9.  
      Creating a backup selections list
    10.  
      Adding a client to a policy
  4. About features provided by Enterprise Vault for a backup provider
    1.  
      About Enterprise Vault quiescence before a backup
    2.  
      About granular quiescence
    3.  
      About managing safety copies and backups
    4.  
      About the partition secure notification file
    5.  
      About the archive bit
  5. Performing backups of Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      About Enterprise Vault directives and what data they back up
    2.  
      Manually backing up Enterprise Vault resources
    3.  
      Canceling an Enterprise Vault backup job from the Activity monitor
  6. Performing restores of Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      Important notes about Enterprise Vault data restore
    2.  
      Stopping the administrative services on Enterprise Vault servers
    3.  
      About the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface
    4.  
      Viewing backup data using the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
    5.  
      Restoring Enterprise Vault data
    6.  
      About the Enterprise Vault restore options on the General tab
    7.  
      About the Enterprise Vault Database Settings tab
    8.  
      Specifying the server, clients, and policy type for restores
    9.  
      About restoring Enterprise Vault file system data
    10.  
      Restoring an Enterprise Vault file system component
    11. About restoring Enterprise Vault SQL databases
      1.  
        About backup image restore sets
    12.  
      Restoring Enterprise Vault SQL database components
  7. Disaster recovery
    1.  
      Disaster recovery requirements for Enterprise Vault server
    2.  
      About disaster recovery of an Enterprise Vault site
    3.  
      Recovering a directory database
    4.  
      Recovering an auditing database
    5.  
      Recovering an FSA Reporting database
    6.  
      Recovering a Monitoring database
    7.  
      Recovering index locations
    8.  
      Recovering an Enterprise Vault vault store group
    9.  
      Recovering a fingerprint database
    10.  
      Recovering a vault store database
    11.  
      Recovering vault store partition
    12.  
      Recovering Enterprise Vault partitions
    13.  
      Recovering an Enterprise Vault server
    14.  
      Recovering an Enterprise Vault server on a different system
  8. Enterprise Vault Agent support for Enterprise Vault
    1. Policy configuration for Enterprise Vault
      1.  
        Open partition, vault store database, and fingerprint database consistencies
      2.  
        Closed and ready partition consistencies
      3.  
        Index location consistencies
      4.  
        Directory database consistencies
    2. Notes about Enterprise Vault 10.0 backups
      1.  
        Exclude file list for index locations
      2.  
        Exclude file list for vault partitions
    3.  
      Excluding files from the exclude list
    4.  
      About planning backup schedules
    5.  
      About hosts for Enterprise Vault policies
    6.  
      About Enterprise Vault tools
    7. About Enterprise Vault agent backups
      1.  
        Privileges for Enterprise Vault backup
    8. About Enterprise Vault agent restores
      1.  
        Changing the socket buffer size for large restores
    9.  
      Useful tips about Enterprise Vault agent
    10. Enterprise Vault agent functionality and support for Enterprise Vault
      1.  
        Differential incremental backup taken after a restore fails for Enterprise Vault
  9. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      About troubleshooting
    2.  
      About debug logging
    3.  
      How to enable debug logging
    4.  
      Setting the debug level
    5.  
      About status reports
    6.  
      About operational reports
    7.  
      About progress reports
    8. About NetBackup status-related troubleshooting information
      1.  
        NetBackup status code 2
      2.  
        NetBackup status code 13
      3.  
        NetBackup status code 39
      4.  
        NetBackup status code 59
      5.  
        NetBackup status code 69
      6. NetBackup status code 156
        1.  
          About the VSS_E_BAD_STATE snapshot error
        2.  
          About the VSS_E_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE snapshot error
      7.  
        NetBackup status code 1800
  10. Appendix A. NetBackup Enterprise Vault Migrator
    1.  
      About the Enterprise Vault Migrator
    2.  
      Configuring a backup policy for migration
    3.  
      About configuring Enterprise Vault for collection and migration
    4.  
      Testing the Enterprise Vault migrator configuration
    5.  
      Setting the recommended DCOM settings
    6. Restoring Enterprise Vault migrated data from NetBackup
      1.  
        Restoring migrated data using the command line interface
      2.  
        Restoring migrated data using a Backup, Archive, and Restore user interface
    7. Troubleshooting the Enterprise Vault migrator
      1.  
        Enterprise Vault migrator version information
      2. About troubleshooting issues with the migrator
        1.  
          Is the data being archived?
        2.  
          Is the data being collected?
        3.  
          Is the migration being configured appropriately?
        4.  
          Is the data being migrated?
      3. About Log Collection
        1.  
          About Enterprise Vault logs
        2.  
          About Enterprise Vault events
        3.  
          About NetBackup logs

Restoring Enterprise Vault data

Enterprise Vault is a distributed application that can store archived data at different locations. When you restore Enterprise Vault data, you can restore Enterprise Vault file system data or Enterprise Vault SQL databases. Enterprise Vault file system data consists of Enterprise Vault indexes, open partition, closed partitions, or ready partitions. Examples of Enterprise Vault SQL database information are the Enterprise Vault directory database, a monitoring database, or a vault store database. The following procedures describes how to restore Enterprise Vault data.

See Restore Enterprise Vault migrated data (NetBackup web UI).

See Restore Enterprise Vault data (Backup, Archive, and Restore interface).

Restore Enterprise Vault migrated data (NetBackup web UI)

The following procedure describes how to restore Enterprise Vault data with the NetBackup web UI.

To restore Enterprise Vault migrated data (NetBackup web UI)

  1. Open the NetBackup web UI and sign into the server that you want to perform the restore.
  2. On the left, select Recovery.
  3. Go to the Regular recovery card and select the Start recovery button.
  4. From the Policy type list, select Datastore.
  5. From the Source client list, select the source client. The source client is the policy client in the backup policy from where the backup happened.
  6. By default the Destination client, is the same source client you have selected to restore the images. You can determine the name of the destination client from either the NetBackup web UI or the Enterprise Vault Administration Console.
  7. Click Next.
  8. If necessary, edit the date range to locate the images that contain the objects that you want to restore.
  9. Select the objects to restore.
  10. Click Next.
  11. From the Restore target list, select the target location where you want to restore the Enterprise Vault migrated data.
  12. From the Recovery options list, select the Restore as Enterprise Vault migrated data to restore the Enterprise Vault migrated data.

    Note:

    The options to Create and restore to a new virtual hard disk file and to Restore directories without crossing mount points is displayed in theNetBackup web UI or the Enterprise Vault Administration Console but is not supported for NetBackup Enterprise Vault data recovery using Datastore policy.

  13. In the Media server, do any of the following:

    • Select the Default option to select the default media server.

    • Select the Select option to select the media server that you want for the Enterprise Vault data migration.

  14. Set the job priority number for backup storage.
  15. Review or edit the recovery job summary.
  16. Click Start recovery.
Restore Enterprise Vault data (Backup, Archive, and Restore interface)

The following procedure describes how to restore Enterprise Vault data with the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface.

To restore Enterprise Vault data (Backup, Archive, and Restore interface)

  1. Open the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface and log on as Administrator.
  2. Select File > Specify NetBackup Machines and Policy Type.
  3. Select the Enterprise-Vault policy type in the Policy type for restores list.
  4. Click OK. NetBackup browses for Enterprise Vault backup images.
  5. From the NetBackup History pane, select the images that contain the objects you want to restore.
  6. In the All Folders pane, expand Enterprise Vault Resources.
  7. Select the objects to restore.
  8. Choose Actions > Restore.
  9. Make selections on the two tabbed pages depending on what you want to restore.
  10. Click Start Restore.