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  1. Home
  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section IX. Administering NetBackup
  4. About Granular Recovery Technology
  5. About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2012, 2012 R2, or 2016
  6. Enabling Services for Network File System (NFS) on a Windows 2012, 2012 R2, or 2016 media server
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Enabling Services for Network File System (NFS) on a Windows 2012, 2012 R2, or 2016 media server

To restore individual items from a backup that uses Granular Recovery Technology (GRT), you must enable Services for Network File System (NFS). When this configuration is completed on the media server, you can disable any unnecessary NFS services.

To enable Services for Network File System (NFS) on a Windows 2012, 2012 R2, or 2016 media server

  1. Open the Server Manager.
  2. From the Manage menu, click Add Roles and Features.
    Image showing how to start Add Roles and Features Wizard
  3. In the Add Roles and Features Wizard, on the Before You Begin page, click Next.
  4. On the Select installation type page, select Role-based or feature-based installation.
    Image showing how to select the Role-based installation option.
  5. Click Next.
  6. On the Server Selection page, click Select a server from the server pool and select the server. Click Next.
    Image showing how to select a server from the server pool.
  7. On the Server Roles page, expand File and Storage Services and File and iSCSI Services.
  8. Click File Server and Server for NFS. When you are prompted, click Add Features. Click Next.
    Image showing how to the Server for NFS role.
  9. If the media server is also an Active Directory domain controllers or ADAM/LDS host, on the Features page, click Client for NFS. Click Next.
    Image showing how to select the Client for NFS feature.
  10. On the Confirmation page, click Install.
  11. Disable any unnecessary services, as follows:
    • If you have a single host that functions as both the media server and the Active Directory domain controllers or ADAM/LDS host, you can disable the Server for NFS service.

    • For a host that is only the NetBackup media server, you can disable the Server for NFS and the Client for NFS services.

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Disabling the Server for NFS

Disabling the Server for NFS

Disabling the Client for NFS on the media server

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