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  3. Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft Exchange Server Administrator's Guide
  5. Configuring the Exchange hosts
  7. Configuring mappings for restores of a distributed application, cluster, or virtual machine
Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft Exchange Server Administrator's Guide

Configuring mappings for restores of a distributed application, cluster, or virtual machine

This configuration is required if you want to browse backups or perform restores and you have an environment where the source client is different than the client that NetBackup uses for backup processing. Configure these mappings in the Distributed Application Restore Mapping host property on the master server. Alternatively, you can perform a server-directed restore. Further instructions are available on how to allow redirected restores in the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.

This configuration applies to the following situations:

  • Any operations that use Granular Recovery Technology (GRT).

    Provide a list of the Exchange virtual and the physical host names. Any client that accesses the backup image for GRT operations must appear in the list. Also include the off-host client and the granular proxy host.

    See Exchange granular clients and non-VMware backups .

    See Exchange granular clients and VMware backups.

  • An Exchange DAG

  • A clustered Exchange server

  • A Exchange granular proxy host

    See Configuring the Exchange granular proxy host.

  • Off-host backups

  • When you select a destination client other than the source client

Note the following:

  • Provide the short name or the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the host. It is not necessary to provide both forms of the name.

  • You only need to add the proxy host to the list if it is not a NetBackup master or a media server.

  • (VMware policies) For a standalone server, the backup is cataloged under a different client name if you chose a Primary VM identifier other than VM hostame. In the list of hosts, you must add the NetBackup client name and the name that reflects the identifier that you chose on the VMware tab.

To configure mappings for restores of a distributed application, cluster, or virtual machine

  1. On the master server, open the NetBackup Administration Console.
  2. Select NetBackup Management > Host Properties > Master Servers.
  3. In the right pane, double-click on the master server.
  4. Select Distributed Application Restore Mapping.
  5. Click Add.
  6. Provide the name of the application host and the name of the component host.

    The application host is the client name in the policy, or the DAG name if applicable in a VMware backup. The component host is the client that needs access to the backup image. See Table: Example entries for Exchange hosts for a non-VMware backup and Table: Example entries for Exchange hosts for a VMware backup.

Example entries for Exchange hosts for a non-VMware backup

Table: Example entries for Exchange hosts for a non-VMware backup

Environment

Application host

Component host

DAG

Virtual name of DAG

Physical name of Node 1

Virtual name of DAG

Physical name of Node 2

Virtual name of DAG

Physical name of Node 3

Virtual name of DAG

Granular proxy host name

Cluster

Virtual cluster name

Physical name of Node 1

Virtual cluster name

Physical name of Node 2

Virtual cluster name

Physical name of Node 3

Virtual cluster name

Granular proxy host name

Standalone

Client name in the policy

Granular proxy host name

Off-host

Primary client name

Off-host computer name

Example entries for Exchange hosts for a VMware backup

Table: Example entries for Exchange hosts for a VMware backup

Environment

Application host

Component host

DAG

Virtual name of DAG

Physical name of Node 1

Virtual name of DAG

Physical name of Node 2

Virtual name of DAG

Physical name of Node 3

Physical name of Node 1

Physical name of Node 2

 

Physical name of Node 1

Physical name of Node 3

 

Physical name of Node 2

Physical name of Node 1

 

Physical name of Node 2

Physical name of Node 3

Physical name of Node 3

Physical name of Node 1

Physical name of Node 3

Physical name of Node 2

Virtual name of DAG

Granular proxy host name

Cluster

Virtual cluster name

Physical name of Node 1

Virtual cluster name

Physical name of Node 2

Virtual cluster name

Physical name of Node 3

Physical name of Node 1

Physical name of Node 2

 

Physical name of Node 1

Physical name of Node 3

 

Physical name of Node 2

Physical name of Node 1

 

Physical name of Node 2

Physical name of Node 3

Physical name of Node 3

Physical name of Node 1

Physical name of Node 3

Physical name of Node 2

Virtual cluster name

Granular proxy host name

Standalone server

Client name under which NetBackup cataloged the backup

VM display name, VM BIOS UUID, or VM DNS name (Primary VM identifier other than VM hostname)

Client name in the policy

Granular proxy host name

See Configuring an Exchange backup that uses Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) (non-VMware backups).

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