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  2. NetBackup™ NAS Administrator's Guide
  3. Section II. Using NAS-Data-Protection (D-NAS)
  4. Pre-requisites for D-NAS configuration
  5. Prerequisites for D-NAS configuration
NetBackup™ NAS Administrator's Guide

Prerequisites for D-NAS configuration

You need to meet the following pre-requisites.

  • Ensure that you have installed the NetBackup Snapshot Manager component. For more details, see Veritas NetBackup Snapshot Manager Install and Upgrade Guide.

  • Prepare the plug-in that you want to use for the NetBackup DNAS configuration. For more details, refer the NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager for Data Center Administrator's Guide.

  • Identify the backup host that you want to use for the configuration.

  • If NAS data protection policy uses TAPE storage unit in SLP for protecting NAS volumes, then the number of tape drives must be greater than or equal to the maximum number of streams per volume, otherwise backups fail. The other parameters of TAPE, like Media multiplexing and maximum concurrent write drives, does not have any effect on NetBackup DNAS backups.

  • For SMB backups using NAS-Data-Protection policy the primary, media and backup host version should be 9.1 onwards.

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