Symantec Netbackup 7.6.0.1 Installation and Configuration

Symantec Netbackup 7.6.0.1 Installation and Configuration

About NetBackup 7.6 version numbering

To ensure a quality release, Symantec chose to incorporate the 7.6.0.1 maintenance release into the 7.6 release. Therefore, the General Availability (GA) version of NetBackup 7.6 has been delivered in a full media kit and downloadable packages that are labeled as version 7.6.0.1. This package provides an upgrade process for customers running previous versions of NetBackup (6.x or 7.x) or the 7.6 First

Availability (FA) release. 

The following list describes some key points about the NetBackup 7.6.0.1 and NetBackup OpsCenter 7.6.0.1 releases:

■ The first GA release of NetBackup 7.6 is versioned as 7.6.0.1.

■ NetBackup 7.6.0.1 media and electronic images are full product images. Neither a 7.6 media release nor a 7.6.0.1 maintenance patch release will be made publicly available.

■ References to version 7.6 in the NetBackup software, documentation, and DVDs apply to the 7.6.0.1 release.

■ The NetBackup 7.6.0.1 release does not have a rollback capability. Restoring from backup is the rollback option. Future 7.6 maintenance releases will have rollback capability.

■ Localized versions of NetBackup (French, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese) are based on NetBackup 7.6.0.1. Language packs are not available for the NetBackup 7.6 FA release.

New Features:

In NetBackup 7.6, the Sybase SQL Anywhere database (NetBackup catalog) has been upgraded to version 12.0.1.

This upgrade contains some of the following improvements:

■ Automatic tuning of server threads

■ Column statistics management

■ Improved indexing performance

■ Faster validation of large databases

■ Improved request prioritization

Installation:

Memory:

■ Master servers in a production environment should have a minimum of 8 GB of memory each.

■ Media servers in a production environment should have a minimum of 4 GB of memory each.

Disk space:

■ The exact amount of space that is required to accommodate the server software and the NetBackup catalogs depends on the hardware platform.

■ NetBackup catalogs contain information about your backups that become larger as you use the product. 

The disk space that the catalogs require depends primarily on the following aspects of your backup configuration:

■ The number of files that are backed up.

■ The frequency of your backups.

■ The amount of time that you set to retain your backup data.

■ Symantec recommends that you have a minimum available disk space of 5% in any Disk Storage Unit volume or file system

Open the Browser.exe from the Symantec source.

Even if it is required you can check the pre-installation check list also.

Install Server Software (Master and Media), Client tools and Java console.

Welcome Screen .....

Accept the End User License Agreement.

Select the installation type like Typical or Custom ...

Type the License key ...  Then select the Master server.

Provide the master server name and EMM server name.

Entire installation summary list ...

Press install button, then the installation starts ....

Automatically installs the Database also.

Now the netbackup successfully installed. If you have any additional license then add the license keys.

Now you can able to see the Netbackup administration console.

Create a disk type storage unit.

Specify the storage unit and select the media server information.

Now the storage unit successfully created in the media server.

Create a new policy to define the backup configuration.

Define the policy name, policy type and storage unit information.

Define the schedule name, backup type and start window.

Add the backup client and backup selection.

Run one manual backup.

Backup done successfully.

Now open the client tool to restore.

You can see the backup image and the files. Select the file which you need to restore.

Select the restoration location.

The selected file restores successfully.

Now the file restored successfully.