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  2. NetBackup™ NAS Administrator's Guide
  3. Section II. Using NAS-Data-Protection (D-NAS)
  4. Configure D-NAS policy for NAS backups
  5. Configure D-NAS policy for NAS volumes
NetBackup™ NAS Administrator's Guide

Configure D-NAS policy for NAS volumes

Using the NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center you can perform hardware snapshots of shares and volumes. The snapshots are accessed on backup hosts and read by dynamic streams to create point-in-time backup copies. The following procedure describes how to configure a D-NAS policy to use hardware snapshots of NAS volumes.

Table: Configuration steps

Step

Description

Reference topic

1

Configure the NetBackup Snapshot Manager server in NetBackup

For more details, refer to the Configure NetBackup snapshot manager for Data Center chapter of the NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager for Data Center Administrator's Guide.

2

Configure the NAS storage array plug-in.

For more details, refer to the Configure NetBackup snapshot manager for Data Center chapter in the NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager for Data Center Administrator's Guide.

3

Add the backup hosts to a backup host pool. The backup hosts are responsible for data streaming.

See Configuring a backup host pool .

4

Configure the SLP to use snapshot

See About storage lifecycle policies.

5

Configure a NAS-Data-Protection policy to perform the operations that are specified in the SLP.

  • Policy attributes

  • Creating schedule attributes for policies

  • Configuring the Start window

  • Configuring the exclude dates

  • Configuring clients

  • Configuring backup selections

  • Configuring exclude lists

Note:

For all the supported NAS storage arrays, refer to the NetBackup Snapshot Manager section, under Snapshot Solutions in the NetBackup Hardware and Cloud Storage Compatibility List (HCL).

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