About NetBackup and CloudPoint integration for snapshot management
NetBackup interfaces with snapshot management servers to manage arrays for discovery of devices and snapshot lifecycle management. Snapshot management severs are installed separately apart from NetBackup and they have plugins for various storage arrays. Veritas CloudPoint (TM) is an example of a snapshot management server for NetBackup. Using the NetBackup Snapshot management framework, you can use CloudPoint for taking snapshots of your images. You can protect all the on-premises storage arrays that are supported by CloudPoint.
The following table describes the underlying tasks.
Table: Tasks for snapshot management
Task | Description |
|---|---|
Configure the CloudPoint server in NetBackup. | You can configure the CloudPoint server as a snapshot management server. To configure the CloudPoint server in NetBackup you need to add the credentials of the CloudPoint server. |
Configure the CloudPoint plug-ins in NetBackup. | The CloudPoint plug-ins that are installed on the CloudPoint server must be registered and configured in NetBackup with the associated CloudPoint server. |
Configure a Standard policy to use VSO snapshot method. | See Configuring a policy. |
Backup and restore procedures |
Consider the following when integrating NetBackup with CloudPoint:
Deletion of CloudPoint host entry and its associated plug-ins is not supported in NetBackup.
Using CloudPoint, if you delete plug-ins that are configured in NetBackup, the images of snapshots that are taken using CloudPoint will be unusable.
Back up from snapshot and index from snapshot is supported. Replication operations are not supported.
For snapshot and index for snapshot, you can use any available storage unit.
Post integration, all the related operations must be performed from NetBackup. Results of operations that are performed outside NetBackup, will not be visible in NetBackup. CloudPoint has its own RBAC, where NetBackup is one of the users and operations performed only through NetBackup will be visible in NetBackup. For example, even though you can add CloudPoint plug-in from CloudPoint, you must add the plug-in from NetBackup, or the plug-in may not be visible in NetBackup.
HP-UX Native volume group Version 2.0 and later is not supported.
Raw device and raw partitions are not supported.
File system verification is not supported. You must skip the verification step and perform a force rollback. In the Restore Marked Files dialog box, select the check box.
Consider all the CloudPoint limitations.
Refer to the Veritas CloudPoint Installation and Upgrade Guide.
NetBackup integration is not supported with the CloudPoint freemium version.
It is recommended not to reinstall the CloudPoint server but to upgrade it. However, if you reinstall the CloudPoint server you need to reconfigure the CloudPoint server and the associated CloudPoint plug-ins.
Perform the following tasks for RHEL:
In the recent RHEL version, there are changes in usage of partition delimiter. Based on last character in the device path, OS decides if partition delimiter must be added or not. To address the change, update the udev rule to add partition delimiter 'p' on RHEL
Open the
/lib/udev/rules.d/62-multipath.rulesfile.Update the existing line:
RUN+="$env{MPATH_SBIN_PATH}/kpartx -an $tempnode", \ ENV{DM_MULTIPATH_NEED_KPARTX}=""To
RUN+="$env{MPATH_SBIN_PATH}/kpartx -an -p p $tempnode", \ ENV{DM_MULTIPATH_NEED_KPARTX}=""Restart the multipath service. Run the following command:
# service multipathd restart
For devices in LVM, if multiple paths are used, ensure that multipathing service is enabled.
On SUSE Linux, ensure that the automount service is disabled.
Junction mount point on filler or array is not supported for snapshot operations with VSO FIM snapshot method.
For client-side nested mount points, rollback of parent mount points is not supported.