Procedures Overview
Plan the job. Determine the storage units that will be replicated and the mount points that will be used to mount BCV units on the backup server. For help, see EVM Job Planning.
Create an EVM-NetBackup job. Use the Create EVM Job wizard to select the storage units to replicate. Select the tape backup server on which to mount the BCV units and specify a mount point for each unit.
Create a NetBackup class. In NetBackup, specify the backup parameters.
Create a script file to run the EVM and backup jobs.
Test your procedures in a controlled, non-production environment.
After testing, schedule the EVM-NetBackup job to run later, or run it immediately.
Events Overview
The main events in a typical EVM-NetBackup job are shown below. When the EVM job starts, EVM will begin to replicate source units and mount the new BCV units on the backup server using the mount points specified in the job (T2). EVM will then run the script file for the tape backup job (T3). When the backup job is completed (T4), the undo-job can be run to remove the BCV units and return their disk resources to the pool of available disks.
The example above is one of several possible approaches that are included in EVM Job Planning. The EVM Server and EVM Clients are noted with red and orange dots, respectively.