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VERITAS NetBackup 6.0 Overview of new features and functions
David Little Principal Product Specialist
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NetBackup 6.0 – Overview The newest major release of NetBackup delivers Extended scalability and functionality to NetBackup’s largest enterprise customers. Further enhance NetBackup’s disk backup capabilities, responding to the increased market requirement for backing up data to disk. Significantly enhanced management and reporting capabilities with the new interface introduced in this release, NetBackup Operations Manager
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IMPROVED SCALABILITIY
Several changes have been made to make the product scale better. The media/volume and device databases, spread across multiple media servers, have been consolidated into a single relational database. This not only makes the product scale better, but also further reduces the catalog synchronization issues. The scheduler has been replaced by an intelligent resource manager which will enable policy-based prioritized scheduling of all jobs. Catalog backup has been modified to allow for hot backups. In addition a pool of tapes can be dedicated for catalog backups. NDMP NAS Appliances can now share tape drives over a SAN with NetBackup Media Servers (SSO for NDMP)
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Disk-based Backups OPTIMIZED NETAPP NEARSTORE DSU
Description: Optimized backups to NetApp NearStore STAGING: USING MULTIPLE TAPE DRIVES Description: enable the simultaneous use of multiple drives; allow more than one duplicate at a time for a disk storage unit with the staging attribute set. DISK BACKUP PERFORMANCE: DOCUMENTATION Description: Document how to tune NetBackup, OS, file systems, volume manager, etc., for maximum disk performance. DISK BACKUP PERFORMANCE: DEFAULT SETTINGS Description: Change default tuning parameters to optimize disk performance. DSU: STAGING AS A STORAGE UNIT ATTRIBUTE Description: Make staging an attribute of a Disk Storage Unit (DSU) rather than a separate type of storage unit (DSSU)
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Optimised NetApp NearStore Backups
The NBU tar image is preserved in a WAFL qtree to support NBU administrative functions (restore, duplication, staging, inline copy, etc). NearStore uses snapshots to avoid duplicating disk blocks that are the same in a snapshot as in the active file system. Only when blocks in the active file system are modified or removed do snapshots containing those blocks begin to consume disk space.
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Disk-based backups - 2 STAGING: HIGH AND LOW WATERMARKS
Description: Provide high and low thresholds (watermarks) that will allow more predictable, better performing behavior. DSU: LEVERAGE DSU STORAGE UNIT GROUPS Description: Don’t schedule jobs to full disk storage units. If a disk storage unit is full, use another one in the Storage Unit Group. Provide load sharing of DSU’s in a Storage Unit Group. 3 options. DSU: SUPPORT IMPORT OF DISK BACKUP IMAGES Description: This feature will enable import for backup images on disk. DSU: MEDIA SERVER FAILOVER Description: Allow FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER and FAILOVER_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVERS to work with disk.
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NetBackup Media Manager
ENTERPRISE MEDIA MANAGER Description: Provides for centralization and consolidation of many internal NetBackup and Media Manager databases and media and drive selection logic MULTI-PATH SSO NDMP Description: Sharing of tape drives among media servers and NDMP devices DEVICE CONFIGURATION WIZARD DRIVE NAME SEED Description: Allows specifying policies for automatic generation of drive names AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION ON TAPE DRIVE SWAP Description: Automatically configure swapped tape drives MEDIA SERVER CAN BE TAKEN OFF-LINE Description: CLI may be used to take a media server off-line. STORAGE UNIT FAILOVER Description: An alternate storage unit can be configured to be used only when the primary storage unit fails.
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NDMP NETAPP SNAPVAULT INTEGRATION REMOTE NDMP SUPPORT
Description: Integration with NetApp SnapVault for backups and restores. Allows user to schedule SnapVault with NetBackup and use NetBackup for restores. REMOTE NDMP SUPPORT Description: Remote NDMP support for all major OS platforms. SUPPORT FOR > 1.6 TB BACKUPS AND FILES /NDMP Description: Allows NDMP backups > 1.6 TB in size. New limits will be 64 TB for file size
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NetBackup 5.1 Features AC support for NetApps SnapShots
Integrates with the open NDMP V4 Snapshot extension Provides the ability to interface with applications. Snapshots provide near instantaneous, transparent, read-only, online copies of active data on NAS devices. NetBackup provides a full point in time rollback of the entire NAS volume as well as file level restore from the snapshot.
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Integration with NetApp SnapVault
Oracle application interface. Consolidation of primary and secondary snapshots. Ease of use – replaces cumbersome administrative CLI commands which must be run on both the primary and secondary systems. Provides a “single pane of glass” for NAS filer administration, backups, and restores. Improved scheduling of snapshot and snapvault transfers with finer time granularity and with predictability. Provides a user restore browse capability enabling efficient user directed restores. (.vs. ~snapshot copies) Improved snapshot naming conventions combined with NBU cataloguing to identify images.
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Core Enhancements INTELLIGENT RESOURCE MANAGER
Description: IRM for NetBackup is the redeployment of current scheduler and job manager providing additional functionality. IRM will allow also users to prioritize backups, restores and duplications. CATALOG BACKUP ENHANCEMENTS Description: The catalog backups have been enhanced considerably to improve RPO and RTO. Online backup, spanning media and catalog media pool. PORTS REDUCTION Description: Reduce the number of ports that needs to be opened in the firewall for NBU. ROBUST LOGGING Description: Robust Logging feature that enables users to prune log files more frequently than once a day. Users can set a maximum size of each of the debug log files and also set the maximum number of log files in each NetBackup debug log directory. This way, if the maximum size is exceeded a new debug log file is created. And if the Maximum number of debug log files is exceeded, the oldest log file will be deleted.
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Catalog Backup methods in NBU6.0
Hot, online catalog backup For enterprise customers under 24x7 backup environment Rich features Hot catalog backup Full/Incremental catalog backup Scheduled catalog backup Partial catalog recovery capability through BAR UI Catalog backup policy UI guided DR catalog recovery
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Bare Metal Restore BMR – NETBACKUP INTEGRATION BMR WINDOWS SERVER
BMR SUPPORT FOR VERITAS STORAGE FOUNDATION BMR SUPPORT FOR LINUX CLIENTS
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The Bare Metal Restore Node
If BMR is licensed, a new node show up on the left side of the Admin consoles.
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VxFS integration VXFS 4.1 FILE CHANGE LOG SUPPORT
Description: The newest version of the Veritas File System (VxFS 4.1) has a new feature, the file change log. NetBackup currently scans the file system looking for files to backup during incremental backups. This can be a slow process on file systems with very many files (millions or billions), and can be unneeded if most of the files don’t change very often. VxFS 4.1 is adding a file change log to track modifications to files, and NetBackup will use this log to determine which files to select for incremental backups, potentially saving huge amounts of unnecessary file system processing.
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Application Backup ADVANCED CLIENT SNAPSHOT WIZARD
OFF-HOST BACKUP FOR MICROSOFT EXCHANGE 2003 SUPPORT FOR MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2005 (BETA) SUPPORT FOR MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT PORTAL 2003 SAP BACKUP INTEGRATION WITH ORACLE RMAN SAP BACKINT SUPPORT FOR SAP DB SUPPORT FOR LOTUS DOMINO/NOTES R7
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NetBackup Operations Manager
A product that is bundled with NBU for no additional cost Browser based UI Real time monitoring & administration Server Grouping Built-in reports Enhanced reporting with custom report building Troubleshooting assistance Log management and viewing Alert management and notification Security
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NetBackup Vault CATALOG BACKUP IMPROVEMENT FOR VAULT QUEUE VAULT JOBS
Description: Vault’s support for the new way NetBackup Catalog backup works. QUEUE VAULT JOBS Description: Enable queuing of vault jobs if they belong to the same Vault instead of aborting the second job. TRUE CONSOLIDATION FOR VAULT REPORTS Description: “Consolidation”, over concatenation (current) of reports VSM/VAULT INTEGRATION Description: GUI integration of VSM vaulting of tapes in to Vault.
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