To create a basic disk staging storage unit

1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, select NetBackup Management > Storage > Storage Units.

2. Click Actions > New > New Storage Unit.

3. In the New Storage Unit dialog box do the following tasks:

   • Name the storage unit.

   • Select Disk as the Storage unit type.

   • Select the Disk type of disk storage unit that is to be a disk staging storage unit: BasicDisk or NearStore.

   • Select a media server.

   • Enter the absolute path to the directory to be used for storage.

   • Select whether this directory can reside on the root file system or system disk.

   • Enter the maximum concurrent jobs that are allowed to write to this storage unit at one time.

   • The Low water mark setting has no effect unless backups are written through a storage lifecycle policy, using the capacity-managed retention type.

   • Enter a High water mark value.

     The high water mark works differently for the BasicDisk disk type. NetBackup assigns new jobs to a BasicDisk disk staging storage unit, eve if it is over the indicated high water mark. For BasicDisk, the high water mark is used to trigger the deletion of images that have been relocated. NetBackup continues to delete images until the disk reaches the low water mark.

   • Check the Enable temporary staging area option. Once the option is enabled, the Staging Schedule button is enabled.

   • Click the Staging Schedule button.

4. The Disk Staging Schedule is similar to the scheduling dialog box used to configure policies. The differences appear on the Attributes tab.

   In the Disk Staging Schedule dialog box, perform the following tasks:

   • The schedule name defaults to the storage unit name.

   • Select the priority that the relocation jobs that are started from this schedule have compared to other types of jobs.

     See Priority of relocation jobs started from this schedule.

   • Select whether to create Multiple Copies. With the Multiple copies attribute enabled, NetBackup can create up to four copies of a backup simultaneously.

     For disk staging storage units, the Maximum backup copies Global host property must include an additional copy beyond the number of copies that are indicated in the Copies field.

     See Maximum backup copies.

   • Select a storage unit to contain the images from this storage unit upon relocation.

     See Final destination storage unit.

   • Select a volume pool to contain the images from this storage unit upon relocation.

     See Final destination volume pool.

   • Select a media owner to own the images from this storage unit upon relocation.

     See Final destination media owner.

   • Select whether to use an alternate server for the images from this storage unit upon relocation.

     See Use alternate read server.

5. Click OK to accept the disk staging schedule.

6. Click OK to add the storage unit.