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NetVault 13.0.1 - Built-in Plug-ins User Guide

Backing up the NetVault Database

To safeguard your NetVault Server, you must perform regular backups of the NetVault Database. The NetVault Database backup allows you to recover the NetVault Server in the event of a disaster. You can schedule a daily backup of the NetVault Database after all other jobs have completed. Make sure that you use specific media or media group for these backups.

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You can also start the wizard from the Guided Configuration link. In the Navigation pane, click Guided Configuration, and then on the NetVault Configuration Wizard page, click Create Backup Jobs.
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In Job Name, specify a name for the job. Assign a descriptive name that allows you to easily identify the job for monitoring its progress or restoring data.
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In the Selections list, select an existing Backup Selection Set, or complete the following steps to create a set.
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Click Create New to open the NetVault Selections page.
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Select the NetVault Database node.
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Click Save, and in the Create New Set dialog box, type a name for the set. Click Save to close the dialog box.
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In the Plugin Options list, select an existing Backup Options Set, or complete the following steps to create a set.
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Click Create New to open the NetVault Database Backup Options page.
Check Database Tables before Backup: This option can be used to verify the structural, entity, and referential integrity for the Scheduler and Media databases before the backup. It generates a warning or error log if any inconsistency is detected during the process.
Exclude the Online Indexes during backup: This option can be used to exclude the online backup indexes (backup indexes stored on the local filesystem) from the NetVault database backup to complete the NVDB backup in the required backup window.
Exclude the Catalog database during backup: This option can be used to exclude the catalog search database from the NetVault database backup to complete the NVDB backup in the required backup window.
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Click Save, and in the Create New Set dialog box, type a name for the set. Click Save to close the dialog box.
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To submit the job for scheduling, click Save & Submit. You can monitor the job progress from the Job Status page and view the logs from the View Logs page.
To save the job definition without scheduling it, click Save. You can view, edit, or run this job from the Manage Job Definitions page. This job is not displayed on the Job Status page until you submit it.
For more information about Job Status, View Logs, and Manage Job Definitions, see the Quest NetVault Administrator’s Guide.

Restoring NetVault Database

You can restore a NetVault Database backup to:

This procedure for restoring a NetVault Database backup includes the following steps:

Prerequisites

Before you start the restore procedure, verify that the following requirements are met:

Restore Procedure

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In the Navigation pane, click Create Restore Job.
On the Create Restore Job — Choose Saveset page, the saveset table provides a list of available savesets. The table shows the saveset name (Job Title and Saveset ID), creation date and time, saveset size, and saveset status.

Saveset is online (all segments are online).

Saveset is partially online (some segments are online).

Saveset is offline (all segments are offline).

You can click Load more to load the next set of records, if available. Each load action fetches a maximum of 5000 records. This button is disabled if there are no more records to load.

Sort Ascending

Sorts the column in ascending order.

Sort Descending

Sorts the column in descending order.

Columns

Select/ clear to show/ hide the required column (s).

When you select a saveset, the following details are displayed in the Saveset Information area: Job ID, job title, tag, server name, client name, plug-in name, saveset date and time, retirement setting, Incremental Backup or not, archive or not, and saveset size.
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On the Create Selection Set page, select the database components to recover the full database or parts of it.

Auditor Database

Restores the Auditor Database. This database contains the audit logs for the NetVault system.

Backup Catalog

Restores the catalog search database.

To restore only the NetVault Database backup without catalog search database, do not select the option ‘Backup Catalog’ on the Create Selection Set page.

To restore the NetVault Database backup with catalog search OR to restore only catalog search database, select the option ‘Backup Catalog’ on the Create Selection Set page.

Backup Indexes

Restores backup indexes.

Backup indexes contain the list of backed up items and their references. Each index is assigned a saveset number. Backup indexes are stored on the backup media and the disk as part of the Media Database. The indexes provide the position of the individual backed up items so that they can be recovered from the backup media.

 

Backing up the indexes on the media ensures that the content of each saveset is available to view when required, in case the index files are deleted or retired from the Media Database. You can scan the backup indexes from the archived media, after they have retired or deleted from the NetVault Database.

Cluster

Restores cluster-specific configuration and associated client information

Configuration

Restores configuration files and settings for the.server and client systems, including network access and configuration information for the plug-ins.

Deployment Manager

Restores deployment-related information, such as package stores, task details, status, and schedules.

General Reports Files

Restores the files included in the Reporting system.

Licenses

Restores licenses to permit the continued operation of NetVault and the licensed plug-ins. If the NetVault server has a machine-tied license and the machine where restore is been performed has a different machine ID, then you must obtain and install the new machine-tied license file manually.

Logs

Restores NetVault Logs, which include all messages from the Server and Client machines. It allows you to check the activity of NetVault at a particular point in time.

Media Manager

Restores the Media Database, which contains records of all active media, the contents of all backups, how backups are organized, and where they are located.

Schedule Manager

Restores the Schedule Database. This database contains records of all defined jobs, backup policies, scheduled jobs, and job history, including when jobs last ran and what backups were produced.

Scripts

Restores system-defined and user-defined scripts for NetVault.

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On the Create Selection Set page, click Edit Plugin Options.
Blank reports database tables before restore: By default, the existing data in the reports database is deleted when you restore the NetVault Database. If you want to retain the existing data in the reports data, clear this check box.
Click OK to save the settings, and then click Next.
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On the Create Restore Job page, specify a name for the job. Assign a descriptive name that allows you to easily identify the job for monitoring its progress.
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In the Target Client list, the client from which data was backed up is selected by default. Do not change this setting.
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Click Submit to submit the job for scheduling.

After the restore job completes, the NetVault Service is stopped. You must manually restart the service from the Txtconfig or the command-line interface.

 

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