Dell DR6300 User Manual

Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on
Symantec NetBackup to Use Virtual
Synthetic Backup

Dell Engineering
February 2014

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Table of contents

Revisions ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 2

Executive summary .......................................................................................................................................................................... 4

1 Install and configure the DR Series system ........................................................................................................................... 5

2 Set up NetBackup for Virtual Synthetic Backup on a Windows or Linux client ............................................................ 10

3 Back up using NBU virtual synthetic backup ...................................................................................................................... 25

4 Monitor deduplication, compression, and performance ................................................................................................. 30

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Executive summary

This paper provides information about how to set up the Dell DR Series system to run Virtual Synthetic
Backup on NetBackup (NBU). This document is a quick reference guide and does not include all DR Series
system deployment best practices.

See the DR Series Deduplication Appliance documentation other data management application best
practices whitepapers for additional information.

For additional data management application (DMA) best practice whitepapers, see the DR Series system
documentation at http://www.dell.com/support/Manuals/us/en/19/Product/powervault-dr4100

Note: The DR Series system and NetBackup screenshots used in this document may vary slightly,
depending on the DR Series system firmware version and NetBackup version used.

Terminology

• Dedupe backup: In this mode, deduplication is done on the client and then the deduplicated packets

are sent to the DR Series system.

• Passthrough backup: In this mode, deduplication is done on the DR Series system after data is

transferred from the client.

• Synthetic backup:

created when data is collected from a previous, older full backup and assembled with subsequent
incremental backups.

• Virtual Synthetic Backup/Optimized synthetic Backup:

move data across the network. The media server tells the storage server which full and incremental
images to use to create the synthetic image.

A synthetic backup is identical to a regular full backup in terms of data, but it is

.

A synthetic backup that avoids the need to

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1 Install and configure the DR Series system

1. Rack and cable the DR Series system and power it on.

2. Initialize the DR Series system. Refer to the

following topics: “iDRAC Connection,” “Logging in and Initializing the DR Series System,” and
“Accessing iDRAC6/iDRAC7 Using RACADM”.

3. Log in to iDRAC using the default address 192.168.0.120, or the IP that is assigned to the iDRAC

interface. Use the user name and password of “root/calvin”.

Dell DR Series System Administrator Guide

under the

Launch the virtual console. 4.

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After the virtual console is open, log in to the system with the user administrator and the 5.

password St0r@ge! (the “0” in the password is the numeral zero).

Set the user- defined networking preferences. 6.

View the summary of preferences and confirm that it is correct. 7.

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Log on to the DR Series system administrator console using the IP address you just provided for 8.

the DR Series system, the username administrator, and the password St0r@ge! (the “0” in the
password is the numeral zero).

Join the DR Series system to Active Directory. 9.

Note: If you do not want to add the DR Series system to Active Directory, see the

Owner’s Manual

for guest login instructions.

a. Select Active Directory from the navigation panel on the left side of the management

interface (also known as the dashboard).

DR Series System

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b. Enter your Active Directory credentials.

10. Create an OST container. Select Containers in the navigation panel on the left side of the

dashboard, and then click the Create at the top of the page.

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a. Enter a container name and select the connection type as RDA. Then select the RDA type as

Symantec OpenStorage (OST).

b. Click Create a New Container and confirm that the container was added.

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