Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft Azure Stack Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (9.0.0.1, 9.0)
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      Protecting Microsoft Azure Stack VMs using NetBackup
    2.  
      Backing up Microsoft Azure Stack VMs
    3.  
      Restoring Microsoft Azure Stack VMs
    4.  
      Managed disk VM
    5.  
      NetBackup for Microsoft Azure Stack terminologies
  2. Pre-requisites for configuring the Microsoft Azure Stack plug-in for NetBackup
    1.  
      Operating system and platform compatibility
    2.  
      License for Microsoft Azure Stack plug-in for NetBackup
    3.  
      Settings for Backup host in IPV6 setup
    4.  
      Time Sync with Azure Stack
    5.  
      About deployment of NetBackup to protect Microsoft Azure Stack
  3. Configuring NetBackup and Microsoft Azure Stack
    1.  
      Overview of configuring NetBackup and Microsoft Azure Stack
    2. Managing backup hosts
      1.  
        Whitelisting a backup host on NetBackup master server
    3.  
      Adding a Microsoft Azure Stack custom role to provide access permissions to NetBackup administrator
    4. Configuring the Microsoft Azure plug-in using the azurestack.conf configuration file
      1.  
        Whitelisting the configuration file path on NetBackup master server
    5. Creating a file that contains Microsoft Azure Stack credentials
      1.  
        Configuring proxy settings for communication with Microsoft Azure Stack AAD authentication
    6.  
      Adding Microsoft Azure Stack credentials in NetBackup
    7.  
      Creating a BigData policy for Microsoft Azure Stack using the NetBackup Policies utility
    8.  
      Stale Snapshot cleanup
  4. Performing backups and restores of Microsoft Azure Stack
    1.  
      About backing up Microsoft Azure virtual machines
    2.  
      About restoring Microsoft Azure Stack virtual machines
    3. About the restore scenarios for Microsoft Azure Stack VMs from the BAR interface
      1.  
        Considerations for Microsoft Azure Stack VM restore and recovery
    4.  
      Using the BAR interface to restore an Microsoft Azure Stack VM at the same location
    5.  
      Using the bprestore command to restore Microsoft Azure Stack VM at the same location
    6.  
      Using the BAR interface to restore an Microsoft Azure Stack VM to different location
    7. Using the BAR interface to restore an Microsoft Azure Stack VM with modified metadata at a different location
      1.  
        Conversion of Unmanaged disk VM to Managed disk VM
      2.  
        Conversion of Unmanaged disk VM backed up using old plugin to Managed disk VM
    8.  
      Using the bprestore command to restore Microsoft Azure VM with modified metadata to an alternate location
    9.  
      Using the bprestore command to restore Microsoft Azure Stack VM with modified metadata to an alternate region
  5. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      About NetBackup for Microsoft Azure debug logging
    2.  
      Known limitations for Microsoft Azure protection using NetBackup
    3.  
      Backup fails with error 6662
    4.  
      Backup fails with error 6661
    5.  
      Backup fails with error 6646
    6.  
      Backup fails with error 6629
    7.  
      Backup fails with error 6626
    8.  
      Backup fails with error 6630
    9.  
      Restore fails with error 2850
    10.  
      Backup fails with error 1
    11.  
      Adding Azure Stack credentials to NetBackup fails with error 9101
    12.  
      Adding Azure Stack credentials to NetBackup fails with error 7610

Stale Snapshot cleanup

  • The value for ENABLE_SNAPSHOT_CLEANUP in the azurestack.conf file specifies when to clean up stale snapshots. You can use the following values:

    • 0

      Do not delete the stale snapshots. This is the default value.

    • 1

      Delete the stale snapshots after the backup job completes.

    • 2

      Delete the stale snapshots as part of the next discovery job.

  • The value for SNAPSHOT_CLEANUP_MIN in the azurestack.conf file specifies the time in minutes after which the snapshot is deleted. The default value is 1440 minutes (24 hours). The ideal value is the time difference in minutes between two backup job.

All the snapshots that are created as a part of backup job are deleted in the same backup job. However, due to some reasons like network failure, power outage, etc. the snapshot can remain in the Azure Stack environment. In such scenarios you can use the ENABLE_SNAPSHOT_CLEANUP parameter and set it to 1.

You can identify the snapshots that NetBackup creates using the following naming convention:

OSDisk

<Disk UUID_OSDisk_9999_<Snap id>_ BDAZSNAP>

For example:

/cb9b5b6d-0c60-4ed1-9cd7-7aaf054b899f_OSDisk_9999_1600405027_BDAZSNAP

DataDisk

<Disk UUID_DataDisk_1_<Snap id>_ BDAZSNAP>

For example:

/cb9b5b6d-0c60-4ed1-9cd7-7aaf054b899f_DataDisk_1_1600405027_BDAZSNAP