VERITAS NetBackup 6.0

1. VERITAS NetBackup 6.0 Overview of new features and functions David Little Principal Product Specialist

2. 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

3. 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 • The scheduler has been replaced by an intelligent resource manager which will enable policy-based prioritized scheduling of all jobs.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)

4. 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)

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. NDMP • NETAPP SNAPVAULT INTEGRATION • 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

9. NetBackup 5.1 FeaturesAC 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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

13. Bare Metal Restore • BMR – NETBACKUP INTEGRATION • BMR WINDOWS SERVER • BMR SUPPORT FOR VERITAS STORAGE FOUNDATION • BMR SUPPORT FOR LINUX CLIENTS

14. The Bare Metal Restore Node • If BMR is licensed, a new node show up on the left side of the Admin consoles.

15. 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.

16. 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

17. 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

18. NetBackup Vault • CATALOG BACKUP IMPROVEMENT FOR VAULT • 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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