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About Vault
About Vault
About NetBackup Vault help
About Vault and NetBackup functions
About Vaulting original or duplicate images
About the Vault process
About choosing backup images
About duplicating backup images
About backing up the NetBackup catalog
About ejecting media
About generating reports
About how Vault uses volume groups and pools
About NetBackup and Vault configuration
About Vault management procedures
Installing Vault
About supported systems
About supported robots
About upgrading to NetBackup Vault 7.0
About the upgrade conversion process
About the upgrade conversion log
About a successful conversion
About a failed conversion
Installing and configuring Vault on UNIX and Linux systems
Licensing prerequisites for UNIX and Linux systems
About upgrading NetBackup Vault on UNIX and Linux systems
Uninstalling NetBackup Vault from UNIX and Linux systems
Installing and configuring Vault on Microsoft Windows systems
Licensing prerequisites for a Windows system
About upgrading NetBackup Vault on a Windows system
Uninstalling NetBackup Vault from a Windows system
Best Practices
About best practices
About vaulting paradigms
About preferred vaulting strategies
About Vault original backups
About disk staging
About how to ensure that data is vaulted
About overlapping the time window in the profile
About the consequences of not overlapping the time window
About resolving multiple names for a single server
About specifing a robotic volume group when configuring a Vault
Multiple volume groups (Multiple robots)
About not Vaulting more than necessary
About sending only the intended backups offsite
About avoiding vaulting partial images
About vaulting original backups in a 24x7 environment
About preparing for efficient recovery
About Vault NetBackup catalog requirements and guidelines
About naming conventions for volume pools and groups
About matching volume pools to data usage
About the primary copy
About suspending vaulted media
About revaulting unexpired media
About media ejection recommendations
About avoiding resource contention during duplication
About two processes trying to use the same drive
Alternative A: dedicated robot for Vault processing
Alternative B: each robot as a Vault robot
Alternative C: one robot as both a backup and Vault robot
About when the read drive is not in the Vault robot
About sharing resources with backup jobs
About load balancing
About profiles for both originals and duplicates
About spreading the workload
About specifying different volume pools for source and destination
About using a separate volume pool for each Vault
About how to avoid sending duplicates over the network
About creating originals concurrently
About using alternate read server
About using advanced duplication configuration
About using storage units that specify a media server
About increasing duplication throughput
About basic multiple-drive configuration
About multiple-drive configuration that does not send data over network
About maximizing drive utilization during duplication
About scratch volume pools
About organizing reports
About organizing reports by robot
About organizing reports by Vault
About organizing reports by profile
About the consequences of sharing an offsite volume group across multiple robots
About generating the lost media report regularly
Configuring NetBackup for Vault
Configuring NetBackup for Vault
About configuring NetBackup for Vault
About offsite volume pools
Creating a volume pool
Creating catalog backup schedules for Vault
Creating a Vault catalog backup schedule
About Vault catalog backup schedule configuration options
Setting master server properties for Vault
Setting the maximum number of Vault jobs
Configuring Vault
About configuring Vault
About Vault configuration
About the master servers, media servers, and storage units
About robot information
About configuration methods
Configuring Vault Management Properties
Configuring Vault Management Properties on the General tab
Adding alternate media server names (Vault management properties)
About alternative media server names
About alternate media server names considerations
Adding alternate media server names
About the Retention Mappings tab (Vault management properties)
About retention mapping overview
Using the Reports tab (Vault management properties)
Configuring robots in Vault
Creating a vault
Creating a Vault
Configuring Vault dialog box attributes
About the Vault attributes tab (Vault dialog box)
About the media access ports dialog box
Creating retention mappings
About creating profiles
Profile dialog box
About the number of profiles required
Creating a profile
Configuring a profile
About configuring a profile using the Choose backups tab
About the Choose backups tab configuration options
About the Duplication tab
About the primary backup copy
About basic duplication
About advanced duplication
About the Duplication tab configuration options
About the Multiple Copies options
About the Duplication Rule configurations
About the treatment of images without a corresponding duplication rule
About the Catalog backup tab (Profile dialog box)
About Vault catalog backups
About catalog backup policy settings
About critical policies
About catalog backup tab configuration options
About the Eject tab (Profile dialog box)
About media ejection
About ACS MAP
About eject mode (immediate or deferred)
About media ejection timeout impact
About the Eject tab configuration options
Reports tab (Profile dialog box)
About report mode (immediate or deferred)
About the reports that depend on eject
About the reports tab configuration options
Changing report properties
Vaulting and managing media
About Vault sessions
About scheduling a Vault session
Creating a Vault policy
About Vault policy configuration
Running a session manually
Running a session from the NetBackup Administration Console
Running a session from a command line
Running multiple sessions simultaneously
Vaulting and managing media
About previewing a Vault session
Stopping a Vault session
Resuming a Vault session
About monitoring a Vault session
About detailed Vault job status
About extended error codes
About the list of images to be vaulted
About duplication exclusions
About ejection exclusions
About Vault resiliency
Ejecting media
Previewing media to be ejected
Ejecting media by using the NetBackup Administration Console
Ejecting media by using the Vault operator menu
Ejecting media by using the vlteject command
Ejecting media by using a Vault policy
Consolidating ejects and reports
Injecting media
Injecting media by using the NetBackup Administration Console
Injecting media by using the Vault Operator Menu
Injecting media by using the vltinject command
Using containers
About vaulting media in containers
Vaulting container media by using the Vault operator menu
Vaulting container media by using the vltcontainers command
Managing containers and media
Using the Vault operator menu to manage container media
Using the vltcontainers command to manage container media
Generating a Container Inventory Report
Assigning multiple retentions with one profile
Vaulting additional volumes
Duplicating a volume manually
Duplicating a volume by using Vault
Revaulting unexpired media
Tracking volumes not ejected by Vault
Vaulting VSM media
Vaulting media not created by NetBackup
Notifying a tape operator when an eject begins
About using notify scripts
About notify script for a specific robot
About notify script for a specific Vault
About notify script for a specific profile
About the order of execution
About clearing the media description field
Restoring data from vaulted media
Replacing damaged media
Creating originals or copies concurrently
Creating originals or copies concurrently
About concurrent copies
About the continue or fail for concurrent copies
About continue copies
About fail all copies
Creating original images concurrently
Creating duplicate images concurrently
Creating concurrent copies through the catalog node
Creating concurrent copies during basic duplication
Creating concurrent copies during advanced duplication
Reporting
About reports
Generating reports
Generating reports by using the Vault operator menu
Generating reports by using the vlteject command
Create a Vault policy to generate reports
About consolidating reports
About consolidated reports in previous Vault releases
Viewing Vault reports
About Vault report types
About reports for media going offsite
About the Picking List for Robot report
About the Distribution List for Vault report
About the Detailed Distribution List for Vault report
About the Summary Distribution List for Vault report
About the Reports for media coming on-site
About the Picking List for Vault report
About the Distribution List for Robot report
About Inventory reports
About the Vault Inventory report
About the Offsite Inventory report
About the All Media Inventory report
About the Container Inventory report
About the Recovery Report for Vault report
About the Lost Media report
About the Non-vaulted Images Exception report
About the Iron Mountain FTP file
Administering Vault
Administering Vault
About setting up email
About administering access to Vault
About the Vault Operator user group
About printing Vault and profile information
About copying a profile
Copying a profile dialog box
About moving a vault to a different robot
About changing volume pools and groups
About session logs
Setting up Vault session log files
Setting the duration of Vault session files
Operational issues with Vaulting Storage migrator files
Operational issue with disk-only option on Duplication tab
Operational issues with the scope of the source volume group
Using the menu user interface
About using the menu interfaces
About the Vault administration interface
About using the Vault operator menu interface
About changes in vmadm for Vault
About Vault volume configuration
About changing the special actions menu
Modifying the Vault name for volumes
Modifying the sent date of a volume sent to Vault
Modifying Vault return dates
Modifying the slot ID for volumes
Modifying the Vault session ID for volumes
Displaying information about volumes in a container
About bpdbjobs for Vault
Troubleshooting
About troubleshooting Vault
About printing problems
About errors returned by the Vault session
About media that are not ejected
About media that is missing in robot
Reduplicating a bad or missing duplicate tape
About the tape drive or robot offline
About the no duplicate progress message
About stopping bpvault
About ejecting tapes that are in use
Tapes not removed from the MAP
Revaulting unexpired tapes
About debug logs
Setting the duration and level of logs
About logs to accompany problem reports
Recovering from disasters
About disaster recovery
About what defines a disaster
About the disaster recovery process
About disaster recovery plans
About recovery priorities
About developing disaster recovery plans
About testing disaster recovery plans
About disaster recovery in the NetBackup Vault context
Preparing for recovery
Recovering NetBackup
Recovering data
Recovering to a specific point in time
Vault file and directory structure
About UNIX files and directories
Windows files and directories
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