How to protect and manage NetBackup Appliance Universal Share
You can protect your data on a universal share and NetBackup can then backup the data and manage the backups.
For example, in NetBackup Appliance, the NFS exported path (universal share) is /shares/EXPORTED. On the NFS client server, the mounted path of the universal share is /mounted/MOUNTED.
Where /shares/EXPORTED is the network path of the universal share data and /mounted/MOUNTED is the network path on the NFS client where the share is mounted.
You then back up the data on the /mounted/MOUNTED universal share.
To protect NetBackup Appliance Universal Share
- Create a universal share in NetBackup Appliance using the command line interface or the user interface.
For more information about the universal share feature and the supported appliance versions, refer to the NetBackup Appliance documentation.
- Mount the exported path of the universal share on the NFS client server.
- Copy your application data to the universal share.
- In NetBackup, create a Standard policy.
- Select the Backup Selections tab and perform the following actions in the order listed:
(Optional) Add the NEW_STREAM directive if you require multistream backup.
See NEW_STREAM directive.
Add the USHARE directive.
Add the mounted path on NFS client server and the exported path of the universal share.
Enter the BACKUP X USING Y directive in the Backup Selections tab. For example:
BACKUP /mounted/MOUNTED USING /shares/EXPORTEDFor example, if the universal share mounted on a Windows system,
C:\mounted\MOUNTED, use the/C:/mounted/MOUNTEDformat for theBACKUPpath.
You can add multiple shares in a policy. If you want to group several shares into one backup job, use the NEW_STREAM directive.
See NEW_STREAM directive.
- Enter the host name of the client where the universal share is mounted.
- Run the Standard policy.
After the backups are created you can manage the backups with NetBackup features, such as restore, duplication, AIR, and so on.
You can instantly access the backups with NetBackup Instant Access APIs.
For information about NetBackup APIs, see the following website:
https://sort.veritas.com/documents
Select NetBackup and then the version at the bottom of the page.