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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide
  3. Introduction
  4. Snapshot Client assistance
Veritas NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide

Snapshot Client assistance

The following kinds of assistance are available.

Table: Types of assistance available for Snapshot Client

Type of assistance

Description

Snapshot Client help from NetBackup Administration Console

For help creating a policy, click the Master Server name at the top of the left pane and click Create a Snapshot Backup Policy.

Snapshot Client assistance from the web

For a document containing additional Snapshot Client assistance, see the tech note NetBackup Snapshot Client Configuration. This document may be accessed from the following link:

http://www.veritas.com/docs/000081320

This document includes the following:

  • An up-to-date list of supported operating systems and peripherals

  • Detailed configuration assistance for the legacy disk array snapshot methods: EMC TimeFinder, Hitachi ShadowImage, and HP BusinessCopy

  • Sections on SAN device configuration and on setting up NetBackup for off-host data mover backups (with instructions for creating 3pc.conf and mover.conf files)

Compatibility list

For a complete list of supported platforms, snapshot methods, data types, and database agents, and supported combinations of platform and snapshot methods, see the NetBackup 7.x Snapshot Client Compatibility document:

http://www.netbackup.com/compatibility

NDMP information on the web

The Veritas Support website has a pdf document on supported NDMP operating systems and NAS vendors. The document also contains configuration and troubleshooting help for particular NAS systems.

This document may be accessed from the following link:

http://www.veritas.com/docs/000027113

The document's title is: NetBackup for NDMP Supported OS and NAS Appliance Information.

More Information

Snapshot Client features

About snapshot basics

Benefits of copy-on-write versus mirror

About local backup of a snapshot

Off-host backup overview

Off-host backup methods

Snapshot Client requirements

Snapshot Client terminology

About open file backups for Windows

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