NetBackup: Backing up individual EV Closed Partitions

[mezla1058]

Hello,

Is there any way to back up an individual Closed Partition in Enterprise Vault using Netbackup 7.5.0.4?

We don't want to do all of them, as they are close to 30TB and will just take too long/never finish.

Had a look through the NetBackup EV Admin guide and it only mentions ALL partitions.

Thanks in advance,

[Dyneshia · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately this is an all or nothing situation.  You cannot backup an individual Closed partition.

Closed  partitions don't change, so you will only need to do a full every once and a while.  Then do differentials to pick up newly closed partitions in the future.

Here is some excellent documentation including configuration depending on what version OS EV you are running.

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH126523 NetBackup Enterprise Vault Agent Portal

• DOCUMENTATION: Recommended basic backup configurations when protecting Enterprise Vault 8 using the NetBackup 7.x Enterprise Vault Agent.    www.symantec.com/docs/TECH126604

• DOCUMENTATION: Recommended basic backup configurations when protecting Enterprise Vault 9.0 using the NetBackup 7.x Enterprise Vault Agent.   www.symantec.com/docs/TECH150237

• DOCUMENTATION: Recommended basic backup configurations when protecting Enterprise Vault 10 using the NetBackup 7.1 and later Enterprise Vault Agent.  www.symantec.com/docs/TECH176623

There may be an unsupported method out there, however if you run into issues or data loss you will not be able to obtain help from support.