Netbackup Snapshot

[BackupSysAdmin]

I read the Veritas Netbackup Snapshot Client Administrators Guide.  It showed me what to look for as far as setting up Netbackup Snapshots.  I checked my backup jobs in Activity monitor and saw that a Netbackup Snapshot was performed.  However, when I checked that policy, it was not set up to perform snapshot backups.  In other words, I can't determine how this was setup in the first.  Is there another location on the master server where I can check?

5/1/2012 12:00:00 AM - requesting resource xxxxxxxx-hcart-robot-tld-0
5/1/2012 12:00:00 AM - requesting resource xxxxxxxx.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.AAAAAAAA
5/1/2012 12:00:00 AM - requesting resource xxxxxxxx.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.AAAAAAAA_SQLBackups_B
5/1/2012 12:00:00 AM - granted resource xxxxxxxx.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.AAAAAAAA
5/1/2012 12:00:00 AM - granted resource xxxxxxxx.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.AAAAAAAA_SQLBackups_B
5/1/2012 12:00:00 AM - granted resource ECL922
5/1/2012 12:00:00 AM - granted resource HP.ULTRIUM4-SCSI.000
5/1/2012 12:00:00 AM - granted resource xxxxxxxx-hcart-robot-tld-0
5/1/2012 12:00:03 AM - estimated 1 Kbytes needed
5/1/2012 12:00:03 AM - begin Parent Job
5/1/2012 12:00:03 AM - begin Snapshot, Start Notify Script
5/1/2012 12:00:03 AM - started process RUNCMD (6628)
5/1/2012 12:00:03 AM - started
5/1/2012 12:00:04 AM - ended process 0 (6628)
Status 0
5/1/2012 12:00:04 AM - end Snapshot, Start Notify Script; elapsed time: 00:00:01
5/1/2012 12:00:04 AM - begin Snapshot, Step By Condition
Status 0
5/1/2012 12:00:04 AM - end Snapshot, Step By Condition; elapsed time: 00:00:00
5/1/2012 12:00:04 AM - begin Snapshot, Stream Discovery
Status 0
5/1/2012 12:00:04 AM - end Snapshot, Stream Discovery; elapsed time: 00:00:00
5/1/2012 12:00:04 AM - begin Snapshot, Read File List
Status 0
5/1/2012 12:00:04 AM - end Snapshot, Read File List; elapsed time: 00:00:00
5/1/2012 12:00:04 AM - begin Snapshot, Create Snapshot
5/1/2012 12:00:04 AM - started process bpbrm (7412)
5/1/2012 12:00:08 AM - begin Create Snapshot
5/1/2012 12:00:31 AM - end Create Snapshot; elapsed time: 00:00:23
5/1/2012 12:00:34 AM - end writing
Status 0
5/1/2012 12:00:34 AM - end Snapshot, Create Snapshot; elapsed time: 00:00:30
5/1/2012 12:00:34 AM - begin Snapshot, Policy Execution Manager Preprocessed
Status 0
5/1/2012 12:04:14 AM - end Snapshot, Policy Execution Manager Preprocessed; elapsed time: 00:03:40
5/1/2012 12:04:14 AM - begin Snapshot, Validate Image
Status 0
5/1/2012 12:04:15 AM - end Snapshot, Validate Image; elapsed time: 00:00:01
5/1/2012 12:04:15 AM - begin Snapshot, Delete Snapshot
5/1/2012 12:04:15 AM - started process bpbrm (8168)
5/1/2012 12:04:27 AM - end writing
Status 0
5/1/2012 12:04:27 AM - end Snapshot, Delete Snapshot; elapsed time: 00:00:12
5/1/2012 12:04:27 AM - begin Snapshot, Delete Snapshot On Exit
Status 0
5/1/2012 12:04:27 AM - end Snapshot, Delete Snapshot On Exit; elapsed time: 00:00:00
5/1/2012 12:04:27 AM - begin Snapshot, End Notify Script
5/1/2012 12:04:27 AM - started process RUNCMD (6996)
5/1/2012 12:04:27 AM - ended process 0 (6996)
Status 0
5/1/2012 12:04:27 AM - end Snapshot, End Notify Script; elapsed time: 00:00:00
Status 0
5/1/2012 12:04:27 AM - end Parent Job; elapsed time: 00:04:24
the requested operation was successfully completed(0)

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

Windows Filesystem backups will do Windows Open File backup by default. As from 7.0, VSS is used as snapshot provider.

Read up in Admin Guide I under the topic:
Windows Open File Backup tab of the Client Attributes properties

Host Properties: Master Server -> Client Attributes.

Extract from manual:

Add...
Adds NetBackup clients only if you want to change the default settings on the Windows
Open File Backup tab.
By default, no clients are listed in the Client Attributes dialog box. The server uses the
following Windows Open File Backup defaults for all Windows clients:
■ Windows Open File Backup is enabled on the client.
■ Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is used for NetBackup 7.0 clients.
See “Backlevel and upgraded clients that use Windows Open File Backup” on page 90.
■ Snapshots are taken of individual drives (Individual drive snapshot) as opposed to all
drives at once (Global drive snapshot).
■ Upon error, the snapshot is terminated (Abort backup on error).