NetVault 13.0.2 - Administration Guide

Configuring user-defined events for restore jobs

When creating a restore job, NetVault lets you configure user-defined events that can be raised when the job completes successfully, completes with warnings, or fails. You can use these options when you want to be notified about the completion status of individual jobs.

NOTE: NetVault includes several predefined events, which are raised for significant occurrences within the system. For more information, see About NetVault events and Events types. You can also raise user-defined events for individual backup jobs, restore jobs, report jobs, policies, and log messages. You can use various notification methods to receive notifications when the predefined or user‑defined events occur in NetVault. For more information, see Using global notification methods.

You can configure the user-defined events in the Restore Advanced Options Set. Once you create a user‑defined event, you can raise it for any job or backup policy. NetVault adds the user-defined events to the event class Jobs — User defined. You can then set up one or more notification methods for the event to receive notifications when the event is raised.

Managing online backup indexes

This section includes the following topics:

About managing online indexes

Online backup indexes allow you to quickly scan through the contents of a saveset without loading the media. However, these indexes can increase the overall size of the NetVault Database. To manage the database size, you can delete or compress the online indexes.

The following sections provide a brief description of the methods that are available for deleting and compressing online indexes:

You can use the following methods to delete the online indexes for backups:

The indexes for the savesets can be loaded from the backup media if required.

NOTE: Deleting a backup index is not the same as retiring a backup. When a backup is retired, NetVault discards all information about it from the NetVault Database. When you scan the media to retrieve the index for a retired saveset, it is loaded as a new index in the NetVault Database. When the online indexes are deleted, NetVault still retains some information about the saveset. This information allows NetVault to quickly reload the saveset index from the backup media.

Online indexes are automatically compressed after 30 days of inactivity. You can modify the Days of inactivity before an index is compressed setting to customize this policy. For more information, see Configuring Media Manager settings for backup indexes.

You can also manually compress the online indexes for one or more backups from the Manage Backup Indexes page. For more information, see Manually compressing online indexes.

Manually deleting online indexes

You manually delete the online indexes for one or more backups from the Manage Backup Indexes page.