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  3. Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  5. Configuring deduplication to the cloud with NetBackup Cloud Catalyst
  7. Configuring a Cloud Catalyst storage server for deduplication to the cloud
  9. How to configure a NetBackup Cloud Catalyst Appliance
Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

How to configure a NetBackup Cloud Catalyst Appliance

Use the following procedure to configure a NetBackup Cloud Catalyst Appliance as a Cloud Catalyst storage server.

This procedure assumes that the preferred use case is configured. The preferred use case is described in the following topic:

See Optimized duplication is used to copy data from an MSDP storage server to a Cloud Catalyst storage server (preferred use case).

Table: Configuration steps for a NetBackup Cloud Catalyst Appliance

Step

Task

Where to configure

Procedure

Step 1

Configure an MSDP storage server (source)

One or more media servers

A NetBackup environment may contain one or more media servers that serve as source MSDP storage servers for one or more Cloud Catalyst appliances.

See About MSDP optimized duplication within the same domain.

See About the media servers for MSDP optimized duplication within the same domain.

Step 2

Create an account with a cloud service provider

Cloud service provider

Make sure that you have an account with a cloud service provider and that you know the user name and password.

Step 3

Configure KMS (optional)

Master server

NetBackup Cloud Catalyst supports MSDP Key Management Service (KMS) encryption.

NetBackup supports NetBackup KMS and external KMS for data encryption.

To configure KMS and encrypt backups, log into the appliance as a NetBackup CLI user to run the commands.

For more information about KMS configuration, see the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.

Step 4

Configure an appliance as a Cloud Catalyst storage server (target)

Appliance

A Cloud Catalyst Appliance is the target for the optimized duplication. It is a dedicated appliance for cloud storage.

A NetBackup environment may contain one or more Cloud Catalyst appliances. There should be one appliance for each different cloud service provider that is used in the environment.

Perform the initial configuration on NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu, then run the NetBackup Appliance Cloud Storage Server Configuration Wizard in the NetBackup Administration Console.

If desired, select the Encrypt data using MSDP KMS encryption in the wizard to configure encryption.

If the Encrypt data using MSDP KMS encryption option is selected, one of following operations is carried out:

  • If none of the KMS servers is configured, by default NetBackup KMS is configured.

  • If NetBackup KMS server is configured, you need to provide key name and key passphrase.

  • If external KMS server is configured on the master server, you must enter key group name. You need to ensure that a key with a custom attribute set with value of key group name already exists in the external KMS server.

For more information about KMS configuration, see the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.

As part of this wizard, a disk pool and a storage unit are configured.

The default path for the Local cache directory: is /msdpc. You can change this directory by clicking on Browse.

Documentation for the Cloud Catalyst Appliance can be found at the following website:

https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/Appliances.html

Step 5

Configure the target to allow load balancing for push optimized duplications (optional)

Appliance

To configure load balancing for push optimized duplications, the Cloud Catalyst Appliance must allow access from the source media server.

Note:

The push configuration is recommended if using load balancing for Cloud Catalyst.

See the following topic for configuration considerations.

See Configuring source control or target control optimized duplication for Cloud Catalyst.

Step 6

Configure a storage lifecycle policy

Master server

See Configuring a storage lifecycle policy for NetBackup Cloud Catalyst.

Note:

The backup and the duplication jobs can also be run manually from the NetBackup Administration Console or by using the bpduplicate command.

Step 7

Configure a backup policy

Master server

Create a backup policy that uses the SLP. In the Policy storage field of the policy Attributes tab, select the SLP.

See About MSDP backup policy configuration.

See Creating a backup policy.

Step 8

Protect the MSDP data and catalog

Media server

  • Manually create an MSDP catalog backup policy for every MSDP storage server and Cloud Catalyst storage server in the environment.

    See About protecting the MSDP catalog.

    See Configuring an MSDP catalog backup.

    Note:

    After the MSDP catalog backup policy is created, it is inactive. Assign a storage unit to it and then make it active by setting the Go into effect at option on the Attributes tab.

  • Save a configuration file for every MSDP storage server and Cloud Catalyst storage server in the environment.

    See About saving the MSDP storage server configuration.

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