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CATALOGSMaster Server Catalogs
Media Server Catalogs
See an example of this relationship between a Netbackup Master and Media Server during a "restore process":
Common Netbackup Ports bprd 13720/tcp bpdbm 13721/tcp bpjava-msvc 13722/tcp bpjobd 13723/tcp vnetd 13724/tcp bpcd 13782/tcp vopied 13783/tcp nbdbd 13784/tcp visd 9284/tcp Media Manager Ports. vmd 13701/tcp tldcd 13711/tcp DAEMONSMaster Server.
Media Server.
Clients.
Media Management Daemons.
Note, to bypass inetd you can run "bpcd -standalone", for this to work add "ALLOW_NON_RESERVED_PORTS" to bp.conf. MEDIAThe Media ID uses an external volume serial number (evsn) and a recorded volume serial number (rvsn). The external bar code reads 13 characters while internal bar code uses last 6 of 13 characters. You specify which 6 of 13 chars to use for Media ID in vm.conf. When a volume is mounted for first time the "rsvn" is written & "time assignment" updated.
Volume Pools are used to separate data i.e. different volume pools cannot use the same tapes. The defaults pools are - netbackup (for catalogs), none (cleaning tapes), and datastore (third party). A scatch pool exists that moves volumes (tapes) from scratch to another pool as needed. Volume Groups are used to ease management of tapes. For example, "00_000_TLD" robotic group has our LTO tapes and "01_001_TLD" robotic group has our DLT tapes. The "---" is named given to standalone tapes i.e. ones removed from the robots. The media server "DEFAULT" when importing tapes means it checks volume groups and places compatible tapes into an existing group. Delete Volumes can only occur when no images exist i.e. an assigned volume (contains images) cannot be deleted. To deassign a volume run "bpexpdate -m mediaID -d 0". The "time assigned" column is quick indicator of netbackup storing images on a tape. When all images have expired "time assigned" is cleared, as with entries in catalogs. There are two expiration types; volume expiration (how often tape used) and image expiration (retention time of data). POLICIESThe due diligence is to have one data stream per physical spindle. For Unix clients with multiple file systems be sure not to select "cross mount points" with ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive. Assume unix system has 5 mount points, Netbackup queues 5 streams regardless of whether "cross mount points" is selected. Essentially the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive ensures all unix file systems form their own backup stream. There are times when a mount point contains too many files and you need to create more streams for that file system. To manually configure multiple data streams you can create a file list and ensure "Allow multiple data streams" is selected in policy. NEW_STREAM /usr /lib NEW_STREAM /home /bin Exclude / Include list locations for Unix. Windows is modified via GUI; client properties. /usr/openv/netbackup/exclude_list or include_list /usr/openv/netbackup/exclude_list.policy_name A User-Directed backups require a schedule called "user backup" with a backup window defined. The client must also reside in the policy. The user selects files via their supplied list and hence netbackup ignores files in policy. OTHERNetbackup does not mix retention periods on a single volume. The images entries are deleted when the retention period ends. The expired image becomes invalid after midnight, while the image metadata is deleted from images catalog when image cleanup is performed. Once an image expires the only way to restore is to re-import tape. See Master Server properties retention periods. SSO - Shared Storage Option allows sharing of tapes drives across multiple media servers. Two media servers cannot write to the same tape drive at the same time. A media server performs "scsi reserve" on the drive until it has completed it's backup. To configure a robot for shared drives the robot must first be zoned to all media servers. If robotic control is SCSI-based only one media server controls robot tape loading and unloading, while all media servers use the robot for backup and restores. SAN Media Servers - basically clients with assigned tapes drives i.e. they can only backup themselves. Storage Units - are logical devices that NetBackup uses to write backups. A media server sees a Storage Unit as a device to store backups. When creating a Storage Unit you specify the tape library to use, fragment size, numbers of concurrent drives, and multiplexing number. Maximum Fragment Size - Lets assume you had 70GB backup and needed to restore file located at 69GB. With fragment size value of 2G netbackup skips 34 file markers and starts read at 68GB. Hence fragmentation is used to enable fast location of file or directory. Multistreaming - Allows a single clients to send multiple streams. The best practice is one stream per disk to avoid "disk thrashing". |