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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft Exchange Server Administrator's Guide
  3. Protecting Exchange Server data with VMware backups
  4. About configuring a VMware backup that protects Exchange Server, using Replication Director to manage snapshot replication
  5. Configuring NetBackup with access to the CIFS share on the NetApp disk array
Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft Exchange Server Administrator's Guide

Configuring NetBackup with access to the CIFS share on the NetApp disk array

You can use Replication Director to manage your VMware snapshots and snapshot replication, including the creation of snapshot copies and duplicating an image to disk. To browse and restore granular items from the VMware backup from a snapshot copy, you must configure the logon account for NetBackup Client Service. This account must have access to the CIFS shares that are created on the NetApp disk array.

Note the following when you configure the logon account for the NetBackup Client Service:

  • You do not need to configure the logon account for the NetBackup Client Service if you restore databases. Nor do you need to configure the account if you browse or restore granular items from a disk image.

  • Configure each client that performs granular operations. To determine which clients to configure, see the following topics:

    See Exchange granular clients and VMware backups.

  • In a cluster environment, perform the steps on each database node in the cluster. Perform the steps on each database node in the DAG.

To configure NetBackup with access to the CIFS shared on the NetApp disk array

  1. Open the Windows Services application.
  2. Double-click on the NetBackup Client Service entry.
  3. Click on the Log On tab.
  4. Add the account that has access to the CIFS shares that are created on the NetApp disk array. To change the Log on as account, you must have administrator group privileges.

    The account must include the domain name, followed by the user account, domain_name\account. For example, recovery\netbackup.

  5. Type the password.
  6. Click OK.
  7. Stop and start the NetBackup Client Service.
  8. Close the Services control panel application.

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