NetBackup™ for Enterprise Vault™ Agent Administrator's Guide

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  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 SQL database components

You can use the same procedure to restore the following Enterprise Vault SQL database components:

  • An Enterprise Vault directory database

  • An Enterprise Vault monitoring database

  • An Enterprise Vault FSA Reporting database

  • An Enterprise Vault auditing database

  • An Enterprise Vault vault store database

    Note:

    If you restore a vault store database, Veritas recommends that you also restore the corresponding open partition if it is available.

  • An Enterprise Vault fingerprint database

You can restore an Enterprise Vault SQL database from any of the following systems:

  • Run the restore from the NetBackup primary server.

  • Run the restore from the system that hosted the Enterprise Vault SQL database and also the policy host for the policy that was used to take the backup of this SQL database.

  • Run the restore from the system that hosted the Enterprise Vault SQL database and was not the NetBackup policy client for the Enterprise Vault SQL database backup images.

    Note:

    By default, a NetBackup client is not allowed to show the backup images for which a policy client is some other NetBackup client. You may need to add a No Restriction File on the NetBackup primary server. That enables the NetBackup client to show and restore the backup images of the Enterprise Vault SQL database that were taken through some other NetBackup client.

    See the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I for more information about the No Restriction File.

To restore Enterprise Vault SQL database components

  1. Log on as administrator.
  2. Stop the Enterprise Vault administrative services on all of the Enterprise Vault systems.

  3. Open the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface.
  4. Click File > Select Files and Folders to Restore > from Normal Backup.
  5. In the Restore window, select the Enterprise-Vault policy type (choose File > Specify NetBackup Machines and Policy Type).
  6. Click OK.
  7. In the NetBackup History pane, determine which backup images to restore.

    See About backup image restore sets.

  8. Select the backup images from the backup image restore set in the proper sequence, then restore one image at a time. Start with the full backup image.
  9. In the All Folders pane, expand Enterprise Vault Resources.
  10. Select the folder(s) of the Enterprise Vault SQL components to restore. (For example, you can restore the Enterprise Vault directory database, the Enterprise Vault monitoring database, or the vault store database.)
  11. Click Actions > Restore.
  12. In the Enterprise Vault Restore dialog box, click the Database Settings tab.
  13. Configure the Recovery completion state, consistency check, and other settings for your restore.
  14. Click Start Restore.
  15. Repeat steps 8 through 14 for each image that you select to restore.
  16. After the restore completes, start the Enterprise Vault services on all of the Enterprise Vault systems. Select Start > Programs > Administrative Tools > Services.

More Information

Important notes about Enterprise Vault data restore