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Setting up the Dell™ DR Series System on Symantec™ NetBackup™ | July 2015
Table of contents
Executive summary
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1
Installing and configuring the DR Series system for use with Symantec NetBackup
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1.1
Symantec NetBackup prerequisites
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1.2
Installing and configuring the DR Series system
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2
Configuring a CIFS or NFS target container
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2.1
Setting up Symantec NetBackup storage units - Windows
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2.2
Setting up Symantec NetBackup storage units - Unix/Linux
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2.3
Creating a new backup job with the DR Series system as the target
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2.4
Setting up native replication & restore from the target container
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2.4.1
Building the replication relationship between two DR Series systems
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2.4.2
Backing up the image to the source DR Series system
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2.4.3
Cleaning up the image from NetBackup
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2.4.4
Importing the image from the target DR Series system
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2.5
Restoring the image from the target DR Series system
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Creating and configuring OST target container(s) for NetBackup
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3.1.1
Setting up NetBackup for virtual synthetic backup on a Windows or Linux client
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3.1.2
Backing up using NetBackup virtual synthetic backup
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Configuring VTL type containers for use with Symantec NetBackup
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4.1
Creating and configuring NDMP target container(s) for NetBackup
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4.1.1
Creating the NDMP VTL container
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4.1.2
Setting up NetBackup to use the newly created NDMP VTL
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Setting up the DR Series system cleaner
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Monitoring deduplication, compression, and performance
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A
Creating Symantec NetBackup storage units for CIFS and NFS
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A.1
Creating a storage unit for CIFS
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A.2
Creating a storage unit for NFS
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B
VTL configuration guidelines
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B.1
Managing VTL protocol accounts and credentials
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B.1.1
iSCSI Account Details and Management
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