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Setting up the Dell™ DR Series System on Symantec™ NetBackup™ | July 2015

Revisions

Date

Description

February 2014

Initial release

July 2015

Added content about creating and configuring NDMP target container(s) for

NetBackup. Consolidated content for the various container types and updated

cleaner recommendation.

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Section	Page
1 Installing and configuring the DR Series system for use with Symantec NetBackup	6
1.1 Symantec NetBackup prerequisites	6
1.2 Installing and configuring the DR Series system	6
2 Configuring a CIFS or NFS target container	10
2.1 Setting up Symantec NetBackup storage units - Windows	12
2.2 Setting up Symantec NetBackup storage units - Unix/Linux	16
2.3 Creating a new backup job with the DR Series system as the target	17
2.4 Setting up native replication & restore from the target container	23
2.4.1 Building the replication relationship between two DR Series systems	23
2.4.2 Backing up the image to the source DR Series system	27
2.4.3 Cleaning up the image from NetBackup	29
2.4.4 Importing the image from the target DR Series system	30
2.5 Restoring the image from the target DR Series system	33
3 Creating and configuring OST target container(s) for NetBackup	35
3.1.1 Setting up NetBackup for virtual synthetic backup on a Windows or Linux client	36
3.1.2 Backing up using NetBackup virtual synthetic backup	49
4 Configuring VTL type containers for use with Symantec NetBackup	52
4.1 Creating and configuring NDMP target container(s) for NetBackup	52
4.1.1 Creating the NDMP VTL container	52
4.1.2 Setting up NetBackup to use the newly created NDMP VTL	54
5 Setting up the DR Series system cleaner	76
6 Monitoring deduplication, compression, and performance	77
A Creating Symantec NetBackup storage units for CIFS and NFS	78
A.1 Creating a storage unit for CIFS	78
A.2 Creating a storage unit for NFS	80
B VTL configuration guidelines	81
B.1 Managing VTL protocol accounts and credentials	81
B.1.1 iSCSI Account Details and Management	81
B.1.2 NDMP account details and management	82
B.1.3 VTL default account summary table	83
B.2 Managing VTL media and space use	83
B.2.1 General performance guidelines for DMA configuration	83
B.2.2 Physical DR space sizing and planning	83
B.2.3 Logical VTL geometry and media sizing	84
B.2.4 Media retention and grouping	85
B.2.5 VTL media count guidelines	85
B.2.6 Adding media to a VTL container	86
B.2.7 Updating NetBackup to identify newly added VTL media	86

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