Installation guide

Configuring Your IP4700 Device for Use with Backup Software

Configuring Veritas NetBackup Software

Configuring

NetBackup for

Mapped Network

Drive Backup

You can also back up IP4700 volumes as network drives, but at a high

cost in network traffic. Also, this backup method does not save UNIX

and Windows file attributes. Restoring a file backed up via a network

drive eliminates the UNIX file attributes and vice versa. Network

drive backup is not appropriate when the same IP4700 files are

shared by UNIX and Windows systems. To set up NetBackup for

mapped network drive backup, follow these steps:

1. Install NetBackup client software on the system that has the

IP4700 volume mounted.

2. For Windows systems, on the backup server set up a class for this

client system. (You can use the class wizard to do this.)

The system type is MS-Windows-NT; this is not an NDMP class.

3. Add the client system and system type.

4. Specify the network drive, which has been mapped to the IP4700

volume.

5. Set up a schedule.

6. After creating the class, double-click the class.

7. Click the Attributes tab, and then click Backup Network Drives.

The NetBackup Client service on the backup client system that has

the IP4700 mapped network drive must not start up in the default

system account; therefore, you must change its login so that it starts

in an account that has access to the IP4700 drive share. Also, the same

account must be valid on the system itself. Therefore, the installation

should use the same administrative logins on the IP4700 as it does on

other systems. We recommend that you have the same logins on

different IP4700 systems mapped to the same system’s network

drives.

The account must have write access to all folders you are backing up, so that

you can perform incremental backups efficiently.

Using SnapView in

your backup

strategy

The optional SnapView™/IP software provides support for the snap

copy feature, which you can use during an NDMP backup. SnapView

makes a snap image, or “moment-in-time” copy, and backs up from