Backup a share
Good Morning! I need to back up a share Example: \\ mediaserver \ share this share was mapped and was as follows: W; \ What happens is that I can't create a storage unit (Basic Disk) pointing t...
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I need to store a certain backup on a share on storage.
Example: \\ storage \ share
the disk drive was mapped as W: on my media server I just can't create a storage unit pointed to this mapping.
The reason that you cannot do this easily is because:
1) when you map a drive, then that mapping is private to your process, your session
2) NetBackup Media Server daemons run in their own process space and so they cannot see your mapping, and because they run as Local System then AFAIK this also restricts them from accessing authenticated network paths.
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So, I think this might help you:
Additional configuration of NetBackup services required to set up Disk Storage Units (DSUs) on remote CIFS shares
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100001816
...but it is quite an old tech note from 2012, so hopefully it is still relevant.
And also see other good comments from Marianne mph999 RiaanBadenhorst here:
NetBackup: How to add CIFS share as storage?
https://vox.veritas.com/t5/NetBackup/NetBackup-How-to-add-CIFS-share-as-storage/m-p/646559
