cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Netbackup Configuarion

traghav86
Level 5

Morning Guys

Please advise i am trying to implemet below Netbackup domain, please advise was there any issues if we want to have DR recovery in future ?

i am just concern becuas of its cross platform.

1.Master Server (VM-Windows)

2.Media Server(Windows)

3.Media Server(Linux)

 

Rahul
1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

Accepted Solutions

Marianne
Moderator
Moderator
Partner    VIP    Accredited Certified

No NBU databases are stored on the media servers - only on the master server. 

As long as your DR planning involves a Windows master server, you can recover NBU catalogs.

As Nicolai said - you NEED to document a DR plan. 
Especially if any of the media servers are disk or OST media servers.

Be sure to read through the Disaster Recovery chapter of the Troubleshooting Guide and get help of a consultant if you feel that your environment includes complexities such as disk / OST media servers, then TEST your DR plan.
Please bear in mind that such services come at a fee. 
Members of this forum will not be able to assist as each environment is unique.

Your first attempt at DR recovery should NOT be when disaster strikes!

 

View solution in original post

6 REPLIES 6

Marianne
Moderator
Moderator
Partner    VIP    Accredited Certified

You need to tell us what your DR environment and/or DR plan looks like.

NBU does not have a problem with mixed environment. 

 

Nicolai
Moderator
Moderator
Partner    VIP   

Maybe you should team-up with a Netbackup consultant about a DR setup. There is a lot of details you need to be aware of building a DR site.

My personal recommendation: document what has to be done to use DR site. 

 

Thanks Marienne

Not planning for DR but just in case to recover catlouges i thought we would face difcculties because Win/Linux or diffrenet filesystems.

as log as NBU does not have a problem with mixed environment i am happy.

 

Rahul

Marianne
Moderator
Moderator
Partner    VIP    Accredited Certified

No NBU databases are stored on the media servers - only on the master server. 

As long as your DR planning involves a Windows master server, you can recover NBU catalogs.

As Nicolai said - you NEED to document a DR plan. 
Especially if any of the media servers are disk or OST media servers.

Be sure to read through the Disaster Recovery chapter of the Troubleshooting Guide and get help of a consultant if you feel that your environment includes complexities such as disk / OST media servers, then TEST your DR plan.
Please bear in mind that such services come at a fee. 
Members of this forum will not be able to assist as each environment is unique.

Your first attempt at DR recovery should NOT be when disaster strikes!

 

Nicolai
Moderator
Moderator
Partner    VIP   

Catalog restore can be very ease or diffult according to the issue you are faceing.

The type of storage unit you choose for catalog backup can either add or reduce complexity. The basic disk storage unit is the simplest, MSDP is the most complex.

I highly recommend using a test system performing different type of catalog restore to familiarize yourself of the process. Write your own documentation, the one Veritas has is not all that clear (been there myself!).

Some tech note you will need :

http://www.veritas.com/docs/000031908

http://www.veritas.com/docs/000044420

mph999
Level 6
Employee Accredited

The catalog back is arguable the most important backup, as without this, you would be in a real mess if you had to recover.  I've seen cases where the catalog backup did not exist and the only way to recover the images was by importing tapes, which took many months, due to the number of tapes.

I woud not write the catalog backup only to disk, it needs to goto tape as well, if the disk fails, you'll loose everything.