NetBackup for Sharepoint environment diagrams
Hello All,
Someone can explain me how a backup of Netbackup for Sharepoint works? Describing the entire backup process.
For e.g.
1-Master Server connect to Media Server
2-Media Server send a bpcd conection to client
3-Sharepoint Server (that is a netbackup client) starts a connection with Back-end Server (SQL host)
4-Sharepoint Server send commands for SQL host (commands via APis)
5-etc
It´s only a example I don´t know if is true, please help me.
I have readed the Administration Guide however didn´t find it.
Best Regards.
Wellington Teixeira.
Not sure how details you want those info for.
Netbackup internal processes (nb* & bp*) and workflow can be complicated and may not make sense for end user. Those are normally internal to Symantec or unless you are a partner supporting NBU.
For just a high-level overview:
Master server - media server - client connection are just like the normal backup.
Only diff is when communicating with clients (which is the Sharepoint frontend in policy), NBU looks at "Distributed Application Restore Mapping" to locate the actual Sharepoint backend (SQL) of the farm.
Therefore when a backup starts, you will see at least 3 jobs starting. One is parent job, it spawns another two, where 1 goes to Sharepoint frontend, the other goes to Sharepoint backend to backup respective components. The parent would receive status from both child jobs to determine if the whole process is good.
