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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide
  3. Instant Recovery configuration
  4. Giving full server privileges to the media server
Veritas NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide

Giving full server privileges to the media server

A media server used in an Instant Recovery backup must have full server privileges. If it does not have server privileges, the snapshots created by each backup do not properly expire in the NetBackup catalog.

To give full server privileges to the media server

  1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, click Host Properties > Master Server > double click master server > Master Server Properties > Servers.
  2. Make sure that the media server is listed under Additional Servers, not under Media Servers.

    Note: on UNIX, this procedure places a SERVER = host entry in the bp.conf file for each host that is listed under Additional Servers. In the bp.conf file, the media server must not be designated by a MEDIA_SERVER = host entry.

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Instant Recovery requirements

Instant Recovery restrictions

Giving full server privileges to the media server

About Instant Recovery

Configuring a policy for Instant Recovery

About sizing the cache for Instant Recovery copy-on-write snapshots

About configuring VxVM

Modifying the VxVM or FlashSnap resync options for point in time rollback

Instant Recovery for databases

About storage lifecycle policies for snapshots

About Instant Recovery capabilities

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