The most convenient way to back up Teradata Databases is to set up Teradata policies and schedules for automatic, unattended backups. To add a schedule or change an existing schedule for automatic backups, follow the guidelines given in Configure a NetBackup Policy.
The administrator on the master server can use the NetBackup Administration Console to manually execute an Automatic Backup schedule for a Teradata policy. See the NetBackup System Administrator’s Guide at https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.DOC5332 for instructions.
Teradata Extension for NetBackup does not handle object names that contain any of these special characters: a space, ^ , . , /, and \ .