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gplus
Level 3
9 years ago

Backing up LUNs provisioned to server

Our current setup for all our policy is set to backup "All Local Drives" but for some servers there are LUN's provisioned to them and is formatted and mounted to created directories.

Something like:

/dev/mapper/vg23-lvdata
                      296G   56G  225G  20% /u01/app
/dev/mapper/vg20_lvlog
                       99G   17G   78G  18% /u01/applog
 

My question is..

1. Are those provisioned from storage via iSCSI or FC be treated as local drives?

2. Will it be backed up with our current selection which is "All local drives"?

3. If we will back it up, what should we do ; define it specifically in the selection list?

 

Your feedback will be very much appreciated.

 

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  • revarooo's avatar
    revarooo
    9 years ago

    > bpmount will just check if the mount points are included or not right?

    This tells you what filesystems WILL be included if you use ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES

     

    > If incase they didn't show up, will adding in selection list the only way we can included them in backup?

    YES

    > what about for NFS, how can we include them in the backup?

    NFS you have to include manually.

    You could however specify / in your Backup Selections and tick in the Attributes section of the policy "Follow NFS" and "Cross mount points"

    This would backup all NFS mounts AND all filesystems under the / filesystem (so everything)

     

    Personally I would backup NFS mounts directly on the server sharing the filesystem/directory not on the system mounting them over the network.

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  • revarooo's avatar
    revarooo
    Level 6
    9 years ago

    1. Are those provisioned from storage via iSCSI or FC be treated as local drives?

    They should be. Run /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpmount - if they show up they will be included in ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES backup

    Note, filesystems will only show up if currently mounted on your hosts

    2. Will it be backed up with our current selection which is "All local drives"?

    See above

    3. If we will back it up, what should we do ; define it specifically in the selection list?

    You can define it manually or check bpmount command (as listed above) if you want to check it will be included in ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES - it should be

  • gplus's avatar
    gplus
    Level 3
    9 years ago

    bpmount will just check if the mount points are included or not right?

    If incase they didn't show up, will adding in selection list the only way we can included them in backup?

    what about for NFS, how can we include them in the backup?

  • revarooo's avatar
    revarooo
    Level 6
    9 years ago

    > bpmount will just check if the mount points are included or not right?

    This tells you what filesystems WILL be included if you use ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES

     

    > If incase they didn't show up, will adding in selection list the only way we can included them in backup?

    YES

    > what about for NFS, how can we include them in the backup?

    NFS you have to include manually.

    You could however specify / in your Backup Selections and tick in the Attributes section of the policy "Follow NFS" and "Cross mount points"

    This would backup all NFS mounts AND all filesystems under the / filesystem (so everything)

     

    Personally I would backup NFS mounts directly on the server sharing the filesystem/directory not on the system mounting them over the network.

  • gplus's avatar
    gplus
    Level 3
    9 years ago

    So you're saying that i would rather use /  with "Follow NFS" and "Cross mount points" selected in LINUX boxes than selecting "All Local Drives"?

    Actually those nfs came from the storage (our storage can also be nas and can provision nfs)..

  • revarooo's avatar
    revarooo
    Level 6
    9 years ago

    If that is what you want to backup in one policy then yes.

    you may be better off just specifying exactly what you want to backup and backuping using Multiple streams so you get a job for each filesystem if you have the resources to backup more than 1 stream at a time.

  • vjuhola's avatar
    vjuhola
    Level 4
    9 years ago

    Consider using NDMP for the NAS backup if that is a viable solution for you.

  • gplus's avatar
    gplus
    Level 3
    9 years ago

    Thanks for all suggestion guys. Much appreciated.