Prerequisites for D-NAS configuration
Note the following prerequisites:
Ensure that you have installed the CloudPoint server. For details refer to the NetBackup CloudPoint Install and Upgrade Guide.
Prepare the plug-in that you want to use for the D-NAS configuration. See the NetBackup CloudPoint Install and Upgrade guide for additional SMB configuration.
Identify the backup host that you want to use for the configuration.
If NAS Data Protection policy uses TAPE storage unit in SLP for protecting NAS volumes, then the number of tape drives must be greater than or equal to the maximum number of streams per volume, otherwise backups fail. The other parameters of TAPE, like Media multiplexing and maximum concurrent write drives, does not have any affect on D-NAS backups.
For SMB backups using NAS-Data-Protection policy the master, media and backup host version should be 9.1 onwards.
This step is required for Windows backup hosts for DNAS-SMB only. You must log on to the NetBackup client service and the NetBackup legacy network service as a domain user to perform the tasks described in the following sections.
To log on to the NetBackup services as a domain user:
- Make sure that the NetBackup client service and the NetBackup legacy network service are running.
- In Windows Services, double-click the NetBackup service.
- Check the Log On tab: if any of these services is not logged on as the domain user, change the logon to the domain account and restart the service. If both the services are not logged on as the domain user, you must do it in the following sequence:
log on to the first service as domain user, and restart the service.
log on to the second service as domain user, and restart the service.
- Make sure that all NetBackup services are running.
- Relaunch the NetBackup UI.