NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager Install and Upgrade Guide
- Introduction
- Section I. NetBackup Snapshot Manager installation and configuration
- Preparing for NetBackup Snapshot Manager installation
- Meeting system requirements
- Snapshot Manager host sizing recommendations
- Snapshot Manager extension sizing recommendations
- Creating an instance or preparing the host to install Snapshot Manager
- Installing container platform (Docker, Podman)
- Creating and mounting a volume to store Snapshot Manager data
- Verifying that specific ports are open on the instance or physical host
- Preparing Snapshot Manager for backup from snapshot jobs
- Deploying NetBackup Snapshot Manager using container images
- Deploying NetBackup Snapshot Manager extensions
- Before you begin installing Snapshot Manager extensions
- Downloading the Snapshot Manager extension
- Installing the Snapshot Manager extension on a VM
- Installing the Snapshot Manager extension on a managed Kubernetes cluster (AKS) in Azure
- Installing the Snapshot Manager extension on a managed Kubernetes cluster (EKS) in AWS
- Installing the Snapshot Manager extension on a managed Kubernetes cluster (GKE) in GCP
- Install extension using the Kustomize and CR YAMLs
- Managing the extensions
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager cloud plug-ins
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager application agents and plug-ins
- About the installation and configuration process
- Installing and configuring Snapshot Manager agent
- Configuring the Snapshot Manager application plug-in
- Configuring an application plug-in
- Microsoft SQL plug-in
- Oracle plug-in
- NetBackup protection plan
- Configuring VSS to store shadow copies on the originating drive
- Additional steps required after restoring an AWS RDS database instance
- Protecting assets with NetBackup Snapshot Manager's agentless feature
- Volume Encryption in NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager security
- Preparing for NetBackup Snapshot Manager installation
- Section II. NetBackup Snapshot Manager maintenance
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager logging
- Upgrading NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Uninstalling NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Preparing to uninstall Snapshot Manager
- Backing up Snapshot Manager
- Unconfiguring Snapshot Manager plug-ins
- Unconfiguring Snapshot Manager agents
- Removing the Snapshot Manager agents
- Removing Snapshot Manager from a standalone Docker host environment
- Removing Snapshot Manager extensions - VM-based or managed Kubernetes cluster-based
- Restoring Snapshot Manager
- Troubleshooting NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Troubleshooting Snapshot Manager
- SQL snapshot or restore and granular restore operations fail if the Windows instance loses connectivity with the Snapshot Manager host
- Disk-level snapshot restore fails if the original disk is detached from the instance
- Discovery is not working even after assigning system managed identity to the control node pool
- Performance issue with GCP backup from snapshot
- Post migration on host agents fail with an error message
- File restore job fails with an error message
Installing the extension on AWS (EKS)
Before you install the Snapshot Manager extension:
To install the extension
- The extension file
nbu_flexsnap_extension.tarmust be downloaded beforehand.See Downloading the Snapshot Manager extension.
Note:
Do not create the authentication token yet, as it is valid only for 180 seconds.
- If the host from which you want to install the extension is not the same host where your Snapshot Manager is installed, load the Snapshot Manager container images on the extension host (
flexsnap-deploy, flexsnap-core, flexsnap-fluentd, flexsnap-datamover)The image names are in the following format:
Example:
veritas/flexsnap-deploy - Create image tags to map the source image with the target image, so that you can push the images to the AWS container registry.
See Prerequisites to install the extension on a managed Kubernetes cluster in AWS.
Gather the following parameters beforehand:
Parameter
Description
container_registry_path
To obtain the container registry path, go to your Amazon ECR and copy the URI of each repo.
Example: <accoint_id>.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/veritas/flexsnap-datamover
tag
Snapshot Manager image version.
Example:
10.1.x.xxxxTo tag the images, run the following command for each image, depending on the container platform running on your host:
For Docker: # docker tag source_image:tag target_image:tag
For Podman: # podman tag source_image:tag target_image:tag
Where,
the source image tag is: veritas/flexsnap-deploy:tag>
the target image tag is: <container_registry_path>/<source_image_name>:<SnapshotManager_version_tag>
Example:
docker tag veritas/flexsnap-deploy:10.1.x.xxxx <account_id>.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/veritas/flexsnap-deploy:10.1.x.xxxx docker tag veritas/flexsnap-core:10.1.x.xxxx <account_id>.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/veritas/flexsnap-core:10.1.x.xxxx docker tag veritas/flexsnap-fluentd:10.1.x.xxxx <account_id>.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/veritas/flexsnap-fluentd:10.1.x.xxxx docker tag veritas/flexsnap-datamover:10.1.x.xxxx <account_id>.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/veritas/flexsnap-datamover:10.1.x.xxxx
- Then to push the images to the container registry, run the following command for each image, depending on the container platform running on your host:
For Docker: # docker push target_image:tag
For Podman: # podman push target_image:tag
Example:
docker push <account-id>.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/veritas/ flexsnap-datamover:10.1.x.xxxx docker push <account-id>.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/veritas/ flexsnap-deploy:10.1.x.xxxx docker push <account-id>.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/veritas/ flexsnap-fluentd:10.1.x.xxxx docker push <account-id>.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/veritas/ flexsnap-core:10.1.x.xxxx
Note:
The command/output examples may be formatted or truncated to fit the screen.
- Once the images are pushed to the container registry, you can install the extension using one of the following methods:
Kustomization and custom resource YAML files: Create and apply the
kustomization.yamlandcloudpoint_crd.yamlfiles based on the samples provided.Extension script: Execute the extension script
cp_extension.shthat is packaged within the 'tar' file that was downloaded earlier. The script can be executed either by providing all the required input parameters in one command, or in an interactive way where you will be prompted for input.
After following the above instructions, you can verify if the extension was installed successfully.
To verify that the extension is installed successfully:
Verify that the success message is displayed at the command prompt.
Verify that the extension is listed on the NetBackup Web UI.
Navigate to Cloud > Snapshot Manager tab > click Advanced settings > go to Snapshot Manager extensions tab and verify.
Run the following command and verify that there are four pods, namely,
flexsnap-cloudpoint-xxx, flexsnap-fluentd-xxx, flexsnap-listener-xxx, flexsnap-fluentd-collector-xxxandflexsnap-datamover-xxxxare in Running state:# kubectl get pods -n <namespace>
Example: # kubectl get pods -n cloudpoint-system