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How to auto detect open/closed partition and indexes when doing backup?

patriot3w
Level 5
Partner Accredited

Hi Guys,

Base on the EV backup best pratice document, need to set different backup schedules for open/closed paritions and indexes. In our setup, we have multiple vault stores and indexes, how to configure the netbackup policy to auto detect the open/cosed paritions and indexes?

1. We are using NBU 7.1, the EV policy only can detect open/closed partitions , not the indexes.

2. Our EV partitions and indexes are configured using UNC path on another server, and the server configured as SAN media server, does the NBU EV agent support this kind of configuration?

Thank you.

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FreKac2
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

Well to start best practice is that Indexes and Vault Store Partitions are on seperate disks/LUNs.

Also if you seperate the two one won't affect the other, e.g. VS ptns filling up the disk space affecting the indexes.

Also remember that the indexes don't grow that fast compared to the VS ptns.

So yes at the moment you have to do stuff manually in regard to the backups of indexes if you want to make one policy for closed and one for open index locations.

On the other hand it's not going to be something you have to do very often unless the LUNs that holds the indexes are very small and/or they share disks with VS Ptns.

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RahulG
Level 6
Employee

I dont think in NBU there any way that it can detect the open or closed partition . But thought the partition is closed you need to backup them up . I would suggest probably to use full -incremental backup stratergy. The reason I am suggestin is because when you backup the Vault store you also backup its database , you vault store data ad the entries in the database should be in sync so that you can get the restore done without any errors and recover all the data. So better to backup the Vault store and Vault store SQL database to be backuped at the same time when it is in backup mode .

Configuration you mentioned is suported , and you can perform your backup . I would suggest you to post this query on the NBU forums as well so you can get some detail about the same> 

FreKac2
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

One thing to note about the indexes is that it depends on the EV version.

If it's pre-EV10 then indexes will be updated even though the location is closed.

It's still true to some extent in EV10 (e.g. after delete's) but not to same level as before.

patriot3w
Level 5
Partner Accredited

Hi RahulG and FreKac, the thing is our customer wants to backup the open/closed partition every day , and closed the partitions/indexes every 3 month. That was suggest by Symantec as well.

The NBU EV agent can only detect open/closed partitions. It can not detect open/closed the indexes. 

In our EV setup, the partition and index are on the same LUN. The LUN is mounted as a NTFS volume, the policy configured when the LUN is full, partition will auto roll over to a new LUN. Since the index not able to auto roll over, someone need to manually configure.

If the NBU backup policy(either EV agent or Windows agent) can not auto detect the open/closed partitions/indexes, that means everytime the partition rollover, someone need to to change the NBU policy too.

I'm still trying to figure out what's the best way to backup our EV setup.

Thank you.

FreKac2
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

Well to start best practice is that Indexes and Vault Store Partitions are on seperate disks/LUNs.

Also if you seperate the two one won't affect the other, e.g. VS ptns filling up the disk space affecting the indexes.

Also remember that the indexes don't grow that fast compared to the VS ptns.

So yes at the moment you have to do stuff manually in regard to the backups of indexes if you want to make one policy for closed and one for open index locations.

On the other hand it's not going to be something you have to do very often unless the LUNs that holds the indexes are very small and/or they share disks with VS Ptns.

patriot3w
Level 5
Partner Accredited

Thanks. Put the indexes and partitions on the same LUN because once it closed, only need to backup the whole LUN every 3 month.