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Alta Recovery Vault - Which Documents Should I Use???

GNeil
Level 4
Employee

Hi Friends,

I noticed I've created a bunch of documents to help educate and direct folks on how to use Alta Recovery Vault, but there are a lot of them and I thought it would be good to do a flow of what documents to use, when and what they're all about.

So let's begin!

After you've had your introduction to Alta Recovery Vault and want to start finding out more about the product and service, take a look here:

Start With:

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault: Setting up Immutable Storage Part 1 of 2

https://youtu.be/r0emXtBHKMM?si=uBaP6AzEnqmO-IVi

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault: Backup, Recovery, and Expiring Immutable Storage Part 2 of 2

https://youtu.be/DaVvfo8qlKs?si=IF2oJlMFoaMTKgGd

Alta Recovery Vault Short Lived Token Based Authentication Overview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Oj_Dk5hsF4

1.Overview of Alta Recovery Vault.

2.How to setup your storage.

3.Perform a backup.

4.Attempt to expire the immutable backup that fails.

5.Successful recovery using the offsite storage.

6.How Veritas uses token-based authentication.

7.Creating a credential with the new token.

Now comes the security questions that you and your Network team will have.

Alta Recovery Vault Security Guide

https://www.veritas.com/content/dam/www/en_us/documents/white-papers/WP_veritas_alta_recovery_vault_...

1.Overview of Alta Recovery Vault security.

2.What are tokens and why we use them.

3.NetBackup security fundamentals as they pertain to ARV.

4.Data Deletion.

5.Proxies and using connection methods other than HTTPS.

After your security questions have been answered, you might want to use something other than HTTPS to connect to your offsite storage so.

Alta Recovery Vault Azure ExpressRoute Overview

https://www.veritas.com/content/dam/www/en_us/documents/white-papers/WP_recovery_vault_expressroute_...

Alta Recovery Vault AWS Direct Connect

https://www.veritas.com/content/dam/www/en_us/documents/white-papers/WP_veritas_alta_recovery_vault_...

1.Overview of what the Azure and AWS private connection solutions are.

2.Recommended setup guidelines to reproduce Veritas certification testing.

3.Overview of the Veritas architectures used to connect to the Cloud Service Provider’s private connections.

4.Veritas Alta Recovery Vault backup and test results.

Now that you've educated yourself on how Alta Recovery Vault works and your Network and Security team have the answers they need it's time to move to the Deployment Guide.

Alta Recovery Vault Deployment Guide

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/VeritasAltaRecoveryVaultGuide

1.Overview of what Alta Recovery Vault is.

2.Pre-Requisites.

3.Patches required.

4.Where to download the software.

5.Covers all supported versions of NetBackup.

6.How to:

1.Create a credential.

2.Connect to the storage.

3.Create a storage unit.

4.Create a policy.

5.Backup data.

6.Restore data.

7.Migrate from access key to token support.

8.Storage reporting on Alta Recovery Vault from Alta View.

Alta Recovery Vault is great, but you want to use it for disaster recovery so you can restore your backups from anywhere!

Alta Recovery Vault Image Sharing and Disaster Recovery

https://www.veritas.com/content/dam/www/en_us/documents/technical-documents/TD_netBackup_recovery_va...

1.What is Image Sharing and a Cloud Recovery Server(CRS)?

2.How to setup Image Sharing with Alta Recovery Vault.

1.Using a newly created Primary or CRS.

2.Create a new credential to access the offsite storage.

3.Import the storage.

4.Restore the backup image from the offsite storage.

And sometimes things just don't go like they're supposed to and that's when it's time for you to look at the Alta Recovery Vault Troubleshooting Guide:

Alta Recovery Vault Troubleshooting Guide

https://www.veritas.com/content/dam/www/en_us/documents/technical-documents/TB_alta_recovery_vault_t...

1.Ensure all pre-requisites for connectivity have been met.

1.Ports opened?

2.EEBs applied?

3.Communication to storage and Veritas confirmed?

4.Common errors and where to find logs.

And just to make things easier.  Here are all of the Alta Recovery Vault Guides:

Alta Recovery Vault Deployment Guide

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/VeritasAltaRecoveryVaultGuide

Alta Recovery Vault Security Guide

https://www.veritas.com/content/dam/www/en_us/documents/white-papers/WP_veritas_alta_recovery_vault_...

Alta Recovery Vault Image Sharing and Disaster Recovery

https://www.veritas.com/content/dam/www/en_us/documents/technical-documents/TD_netBackup_recovery_va...

Alta Recovery Vault Azure ExpressRoute Overview

https://www.veritas.com/content/dam/www/en_us/documents/white-papers/WP_recovery_vault_expressroute_...

Alta Recovery Vault AWS Direct Connect

https://www.veritas.com/content/dam/www/en_us/documents/white-papers/WP_veritas_alta_recovery_vault_...

Alta Recovery Vault Troubleshooting Guide

https://www.veritas.com/content/dam/www/en_us/documents/technical-documents/TB_alta_recovery_vault_t...

And here are all of the Alta Recovery Vault videos:

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault: Setting up Immutable Storage Part 1 of 2

https://youtu.be/r0emXtBHKMM?si=uBaP6AzEnqmO-IVi

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault: Backup, Recovery, and Expiring Immutable Storage Part 2 of 2

https://youtu.be/DaVvfo8qlKs?si=IF2oJlMFoaMTKgGd

Alta Recovery Vault Deployment Demo Azure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_cR89y7Drk

Alta Recovery Vault Deployment Demo AWS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxMoS1E2xKI

Creating an Alta Recovery Vault Storage Bucket on Azure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eRy7f1p6qc

Creating an Alta Recovery Vault Storage Bucket on AWS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNr9uWOfRU4

Alta Recovery Vault Short Lived Token Based Authentication Overview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Oj_Dk5hsF4

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