hi Radek,
Thanks for your fast response!
It appears that I need another feature of Netbackup so that NBU can actually see those snapshots:
Overview of Replication Director
In a Replication Director environment, Symantec NetBackup uses NetApp Snapshot and replication
technologies to provide incremental and unified data protection. NetBackup enables you to create
storage lifecycle policies for unified protection of data from primary storage systems to secondary
and tertiary storage systems.
Replication Director, a NetBackup OpenStorage backup environment, consists of a media server that
accesses storage systems through the DataFabric Manager server. The NetBackup administrator
configures the DataFabric Manager server as the storage server in NetBackup. The DataFabric
Manager server hosts the NetApp Plug-in for Symantec NetBackup.
I thought this wouuld be a much simpler process. it seems that using Snapmirror and SnapVault would eliminate the need for NBU altogether.