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  3. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  5. Section V. Configuring backups
  7. Creating backup policies
  9. Policy Attributes tab
  11. Use Accelerator (policy attribute)
  13. Configuring Accelerator
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Configuring Accelerator

The following table outlines the procedure to configure the full backups that use the NetBackup Accelerator.

Table: To configure Accelerator on full backups

Task

Procedure and notes

Make sure that you have a storage unit that supports Accelerator.

Accelerator supports disk storage units only. Supported storage unit types are PureDisk (Media Server Deduplication Pool and NetBackup appliance), cloud storage, and qualified third-party OST storage.

The NetBackup device mapping files contain a complete list of supported storage units (see the next task).

Note:

Storage unit groups are supported only if the storage unit selection in the group is Failover.

Update the NetBackup device mapping files if needed.

The NetBackup device mapping files contain all storage device types that NetBackup can use. To add support for the new devices or upgraded devices that support Accelerator, download the current device mapping files from the Veritas support site.

See About the device mapping files.

See Downloading the device mapping files.

Configure a Standard, MS-Windows, VMware, NDMP, or Oracle backup policy.

Select the following on the policy Attributes tab:

  • A disk storage unit that supports Accelerator.

  • The Use Accelerator option.

Accelerator operates differently when used for backup of virtual machines, NDMP, or Oracle databases. For full details, see the following guides:

  • The NetBackup for VMware Administrator's Guide.

  • The NetBackup for NDMP Administrator's Guide.

  • The NetBackup for Oracle Administrator's Guide.

    The guides are available from this location:

    http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332

To periodically establish a new baseline of change detection on the client, you can select the Accelerator forced rescan option on the Schedule Attribute tab of the policy.

This option provides an additional level of Accelerator change detection in the client's data. This option reduces the speed of Accelerator.

See Accelerator forced rescan option (schedule attribute).

See Accelerator and the Windows change journal.

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