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  3. NetBackup™ Flex Scale Administrator's Guide
  5. NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management
  7. About Universal Shares
  9. Creating a Protection Point for a Universal Share
NetBackup™ Flex Scale Administrator's Guide

Creating a Protection Point for a Universal Share

You can create a Protection Point for the data in a Universal Share that lets you manage and protect the data in the share. Creating a Protection Point is accomplished by creating a Universal-Share backup policy.

If an MSDP storage server is configured with multiple Universal Shares, a single policy can be created for some or all of the shares, and enable multi-stream option in policy. You can also create individual policies, one for each share. A universal share backup policy supports only one MSDP storage server.

To create a Protection Point policy for a Universal Share

  1. Create a Universal Share on an existing MSDP storage server.

    For details, see Create a Universal Share in NetBackup Web UI Administrator's Guide.

  2. Mount the exported path of the Universal Share on the storage server.

    The Export path is found on the details page of the universal share in the NetBackup web UI: click Storage > Disk storage > Universal Share and then select the universal share to view its details.

  3. Copy your application data to the Universal Share.
  4. Use the NetBackup Administration Console or the NetBackup web UI to create a policy.
  5. On the Attributes tab, select Universal-Share.
  6. On the Schedules tab, select the type of backup. It can be Full Backup, Differential Incremental Backup or Cumulative Incremental Backup.

    Note:

    Accelerator backups are not supported or necessary for Universal Shares.

  7. On the Clients tab, enter the name of the desired client.

    Universal share is an agentless technology, so the client name that is specified is used only for cataloging purposes. You can enter a NetBackup Appliance, NetBackup Virtual Appliance, Flex Appliance media server application instance, or MSDP server name or a host where universal share is mounted. The client name can be a short name, Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN), or IP address.

  8. On Backup Selections tab, enter the NetBackup path of the universal share.

    You can find the export path from the Universal share details page web UI: Storage > Storage Configuration > Universal Share. For example: /mnt/vpfs_shares/3cc7/3cc77559-64f8-4ceb-be90-3e242b89f5e9

    You can also use the BACKUP X USING Y directive, which allows cataloging under a different directory than the universal share path. For example: BACKUP /demo/database1 USING /mnt/vpfs_shares/3cc7/3cc77559-64f8-4ceb-be90-3e242b89f5e9. In this example, the backup will be cataloged under /demo/database1.

  9. Run the Universal-Share policy.

    After the backups are created, you can manage the backups with NetBackup features, such as restore, duplication, Auto Image Replication, and others.

    You can instantly access the backups with NetBackup Instant Access APIs.

    For information about NetBackup APIs, see the following website:

    https://sort.veritas.com/documents

    Select NetBackup and then the version at the bottom of the page.

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