Mounting an NFS share on a NetBackup primary server instance
You can configure the NetBackup catalog backup policy to send disaster recovery files to a Network File System (NFS) share. Use the following procedure to mount an NFS share on a primary server application instance for disaster recovery.
To mount the NFS share and configure the catalog backup policy:
- On the NFS server, run the following command to create a directory for the NFS share:
mkdir <NFS directory>
- Navigate to
/etc/exportsand add the following directive:<NFS directory> <primary IP address>(rw,no_root_squash)
Where <NFS directory> is the directory that you created, and <primary IP address> is the IP address of the primary server instance.
For example:
/nfsdir 11.11.11.111(rw,no_root_squash)
- Restart the NFS service or reload the configuration file with the exportfs command.
- Log in to the primary server instance as the appadmin user and run the following commands:
sudo bash
cat > /mnt/nbdata/vxos/etc/fstab
<NFS IP address>:<NFS directory> /mnt/nbcatdr nfs nfsvers=<NFS version>,rw,x-mount.mkdir
Where <NFS IP address> is the IP address of the NFS server, <NFS directory> is the directory for the NFS share, and <NFS version> is either 3 or 4.
For example:
22.22.22.222:/nfsdir /mnt/nbcatdr nfs nfsvers=3,rw,x-mount.mkdir
- From the Flex Appliance Console, restart the instance.
- Log back in to the instance and run the following command:
chown -R nbsvcusr:users /mnt/nbcatdr
- From the NetBackup web UI, select Protection > Policies and click Add. Follow the prompts to configure a backup policy with the type NBU-Catalog. Specify the following information for the catalog disaster recovery file:
Path:
/mnt/nbcatdr/Logon and Password: Leave empty
For more information about the catalog backup policy, see the chapter "Protecting the NetBackup Catalog" in the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.