NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager for Cloud Install and Upgrade Guide
- Introduction
- Section I. NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud installation and configuration
- Preparing for NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud installation
- Meeting system requirements
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager host sizing recommendations
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager extension sizing recommendations
- Creating an instance or preparing the host to install NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Installing container platform (Docker, Podman)
- Creating and mounting a volume to store NetBackup Snapshot Manager data
- Verifying that specific ports are open on the instance or physical host
- Preparing NetBackup Snapshot Manager for backup from snapshot jobs
- OCI - iptables rules for backup from snapshot jobs
- Deploying NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud using container images
- Before you begin installing NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Installing NetBackup Snapshot Manager in the Docker/Podman environment
- Installing NetBackup Snapshot Manager on CIS Level 2 v2 configured host
- Securing the connection to NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Verifying that NetBackup Snapshot Manager is installed successfully
- Restarting NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Deploying NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud extensions
- Before you begin installing NetBackup Snapshot Manager extensions
- Downloading the NetBackup Snapshot Manager extension
- Installing the NetBackup Snapshot Manager extension on a VM
- Installing the NetBackup Snapshot Manager extension on a managed Kubernetes cluster (AKS) in Azure
- Installing the NetBackup Snapshot Manager extension on a managed Kubernetes cluster (EKS) in AWS
- Installing the NetBackup 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 for cloud providers
- Why to configure the NetBackup Snapshot Manager cloud providers?
- AWS plug-in configuration notes
- Prerequisites for configuring the AWS plug-in
- Before you create a cross account configuration
- Prerequisites for application consistent snapshots using AWS Systems Service Manager
- Prerequisites for configuring AWS plug-in using VPC endpoint
- AWS permissions required by NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Configuring AWS permissions for NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Google Cloud Platform plug-in configuration notes
- Prerequisites for configuring the GCP plug-in using Credential and Service Account option
- Google Cloud Platform permissions required by NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Preparing the GCP service account for plug-in configuration
- Configuring a GCP service account for NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- GCP cross-project configuration
- GCP shared VPC configuration
- Microsoft Azure plug-in configuration notes
- Microsoft Azure Stack Hub plug-in configuration notes
- OCI plug-in configuration notes
- Cloud Service Provider endpoints for DBPaaS
- Configuration for protecting assets on cloud hosts/VM
- Deciding which feature (on-host agent or agentless) of NetBackup Snapshot Manager is to be used for protecting the assets
- Protecting assets with NetBackup Snapshot Manager's on-host agent feature
- Installing and configuring NetBackup Snapshot Manager agent
- Configuring the NetBackup Snapshot Manager application plug-in
- Configuring an application plug-in
- Microsoft SQL plug-in
- Oracle plug-in
- Protecting assets with NetBackup Snapshot Manager's agentless feature
- Snapshot Manager for cloud catalog backup and recovery
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager for cloud assets protection
- Volume encryption in NetBackup Snapshot Manager for cloud
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud security
- Preparing for NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud installation
- Section II. NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud maintenance
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud logging
- Upgrading NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud
- About NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud upgrades
- Supported upgrade path
- Upgrade scenarios
- Preparing to upgrade NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Upgrading NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Upgrading NetBackup Snapshot Manager using patch or hotfix
- Applying operating system patches on NetBackup Snapshot Manager host
- Migrating and upgrading NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- GCP configuration for migration from zone to region
- Post-upgrade tasks
- Post-migration tasks
- Uninstalling NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud
- Preparing to uninstall NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Backing up NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Unconfiguring NetBackup Snapshot Manager plug-ins
- Unconfiguring NetBackup Snapshot Manager agents
- Removing the NetBackup Snapshot Manager agents
- Removing NetBackup Snapshot Manager from a standalone Docker host environment
- Removing NetBackup Snapshot Manager extensions - VM-based or managed Kubernetes cluster-based
- Restoring NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Troubleshooting NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud
- Troubleshooting NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- SQL snapshot or restore and granular restore operations fail if the Windows instance loses connectivity with the NetBackup 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
- Acknowledgment not received for datamover
- Google Cloud Platform does display the Snapshot ID of the disk
- Application state of the connected/configured cloud VM(s) displays an error after upgrading to NetBackup Snapshot Manager version 11.x
- Backup and restore jobs fail with timeout error
- GCP restore with encryption key failed with an error message
- Amazon Redshift clusters and databases not available after discovery
- Shared VPC subnet not visible
- Container manager may not spawn the ephemeral registration container timely
- GCP restore from VM fails to obtain firewall rules
- Parameterised VM restore fails to retrieve encryption keys
- Restore from snapshot of a VM with security type Trusted Launch fails
- Snapshot Manager failed to retrieve the specified cloud domain(s), against the specified plugin instance
- Issues with SELinux configuration
- Performance issues with OCI backup from snapshot and restore from backup copy
- Connection to Amazon Linux 2023 or Alma Linux machines fail
- Single file restore from snapshot copy fails with an error
- MS SQL application backup, restore, or SFR job on Windows cloud VM fails with an error
- Status 49 error appears
- Restore from backup fails with an error
- (For AWS) If the specified AMI is not subscribed in the given region an error message appears
- Restore of Azure Disk Encrypted VM fails with an error
Google Cloud Platform permissions required by NetBackup Snapshot Manager
Assign the following permissions to the service account that NetBackup Snapshot Manager uses to access assets in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP):
Note:
In the following table the permissions marked with an are mandatory.
Table: NetBackup Snapshot Manager feature Vs permissions for GCP cloud provider
Feature | Task/Operation | Required permission | |
|---|---|---|---|
VM based | |||
VM protection | Backup, Restore, Indexing + GRT | To fetch the specified disk type | compute.diskTypes.get |
To delete the specified persistent disk | compute.disks.delete | ||
Used when attaching a disk to an instance | compute.disks.use | ||
To attach an existing disk resource to an instance | compute.instances.attachDisk | ||
Detach a disk from an instance | compute.instances.detachDisk | ||
Cross-Project restore | To create a persistent disk in the specified project | compute.disks.create | |
Snapshot/ (Cross-Project/Region) Restore | To create a snapshot in the specified project | compute.snapshots.create | |
To delete the specified snapshot resource | compute.snapshots.delete | ||
Restore/Backup/Snapshot/Indexing + GRT | To set the labels on a disk | compute.disks.setLabels | |
To return the specified snapshot resource | compute.snapshots.get | ||
To retrieve the specified zone-specific operations resource | compute.zoneOperations.get | ||
Snapshot, (Cross-Project/Cross-Region) Restore | To create a snapshot of a specified persistent disk | compute.disks.createSnapshot | |
Snapshot/Backup/Restore | To retrieve the specified operations resource | compute.globalOperations.get | |
Cross-Project restore, BFS | To create disk from a snapshot in same or different project | compute.snapshots.useReadOnly | |
Configuration of shared VPC | To fetch the effective firewall on a given network | compute.networks.getEffectiveFirewalls | |
To retrieve the list of networks available to the specified project | compute.networks.list | ||
To return the specified project resource | compute.projects.get | ||
Return the specified subnetwork | compute.subnetworks.get | ||
To retrieve a list of subnetworks available to the specified project | compute.subnetworks.list | ||
To create a resource using a subnet | compute.subnetworks.use | ||
To create a resource using an external IP | compute.subnetworks.useExternalIp | ||
To retrieve the project identified by the specified name | resourcemanager.projects.get | ||
To return the specified firewall | compute.firewalls.get | ||
Snapshot | To set the labels on a snapshot | compute.snapshots.setLabels | |
Plugin configuration | To return the specified region resource | compute.regions.get | |
Calculate CP capability, Restore | To return the specified machine type | compute.machineTypes.get | |
To retrieve a list of machine types available to the specified project | compute.machineTypes.list | ||
Discovery | To fetch the specified persistent disk | compute.disks.get | |
To retrieve a list of persistent disks contained within the specified zone | compute.disks.list | ||
To fetch the specified instance resource | compute.instances.get | ||
To retrieve the list of instances contained within the specified zone | compute.instances.list | ||
To list Google Compute Engine snapshots | compute.snapshots.list | ||
Restore | To create an instance resource in the specified project | compute.instances.create | |
To delete the specified instance resource | compute.instances.delete | ||
To set metadata for the specified instance | compute.instances.setMetadata | ||
To set the service account on the instance | compute.instances.setServiceAccount | ||
To set labels on an instance | compute.instances.setLabels | ||
To set network tags for the specified instance | compute.instances.setTags | ||
To start an compute engine instance | compute.instances.start | ||
To stop a running instance, shutting it down cleanly | compute.instances.stop | ||
To return the specified network | compute.networks.get | ||
To attach service accounts to resources | iam.serviceAccounts.actAs | ||
Restore of CMK encrypted disks | Restore | To get metadata for a given CryptoKey and its primary CryptoKeyVersion | cloudkms.cryptoKeys.get |
To get metadata for a given CryptoKeyVersion | cloudkms.cryptoKeyVersions.get | ||
To list CryptoKeys | cloudkms.cryptoKeys.list | ||
To list KeyRings | cloudkms.keyRings.list | ||
To decrypt data while reading encrypted disks | cloudkms.cryptoKeyVersions.useToDecrypt | ||
To encrypt data on restored disks | cloudkms.cryptoKeyVersions.useToEncrypt | ||
To get information about a location | cloudkms.locations.get | ||
To list information about the supported locations for this service | cloudkms.locations.list | ||
Cross-Project restore | To encrypt/decrypt data in other project | Cloud KMS CryptoKey Encrypter/Decrypter | |
SQL database protection | List cloud SQL instances in a given project | cloudsql.instances.list | |
To get the list of databases | cloudsql.databases.list | ||
To get the database details | cloudsql.databases.get | ||
To export data from database for backup | cloudsql.instances.export | ||
To get the details of instance | cloudsql.instances.get | ||
To import the backed up files into database | cloudsql.instances.import | ||
To get the list of instances | cloudsql.instances.list | ||
To create bucket | storage.buckets.create | ||
To get bucket | storage.buckets.get | ||
To get permissions on buckets for required service account | storage.buckets.getIamPolicy | ||
To set permissions on buckets for required service account | storage.buckets.setIamPolicy | ||
To save backup files to bucket | storage.objects.create | ||
To cleanup backup files from bucket | storage.objects.delete | ||
To get backup file details from bucket | storage.objects.get | ||
To get list of files from bucket | storage.objects.list | ||
PaaS workloads protection (GCP BigQuery) | To get details about a configuration | bigquery.config.get | |
To create new empty datasets | bigquery.datasets.create | ||
To delete a dataset | bigquery.datasets.delete | ||
To get metadata and permissions about a dataset | bigquery.datasets.get | ||
Metadata viewing permissions in GCP console | bigquery.datasets.getIamPolicy | ||
To run jobs (including queries) within the project | bigquery.jobs.create | ||
To get data and metadata for any job | bigquery.jobs.get | ||
To list all jobs and retrieve metadata on any job submitted by any user. For jobs submitted by other users, details and metadata are redacted. | bigquery.jobs.list | ||
To list all jobs and retrieve metadata on any job submitted by any user | bigquery.jobs.listAll | ||
To cancel any job | bigquery.jobs.update | ||
To get routine definitions and metadata | bigquery.routines.get | ||
To list routines and metadata on routines | bigquery.routines.list | ||
To create new tables | bigquery.tables.create | ||
To create new table snapshots | bigquery.tables.createSnapshot | ||
To delete tables | bigquery.tables.delete | ||
To delete table snapshots | bigquery.tables.deleteSnapshot | ||
To export table data out of BigQuery | bigquery.tables.export | ||
To get table metadata | bigquery.tables.get | ||
To get table data | bigquery.tables.getData | ||
To list tables and metadata of the tables | bigquery.tables.list | ||
To update table metadata | bigquery.tables.update | ||
To update table data | bigquery.tables.updateData | ||
To create new buckets in a project | storage.buckets.create | ||
To read bucket metadata, excluding IAM policies, and list or read the Pub/Sub notification configurations on a bucket. | storage.buckets.get | ||
To read bucket IAM policies | storage.buckets.getIamPolicy | ||
To update bucket IAM policies | storage.buckets.setIamPolicy | ||
To add new objects to a bucket | storage.objects.create | ||
To delete objects | storage.objects.delete | ||
To read object data and metadata, excluding ACLs. | storage.objects.get | ||
To list objects in a bucket. Also, to read object metadata, excluding ACLs, when listing. | storage.objects.list | ||
Kuberenetes cluster based | |||
Kubernetes extension /Auto-scaling | To get information of the cluster | container.clusters.get | |
To get details Get details about the managed instance group | compute.instanceGroupManagers.get | ||
Kubernetes extension /Auto-scaling | To update managed instance group | compute.instanceGroupManagers.update | |
Kubernetes extension /Auto-scaling | To update node pool of the cluster | container.clusters.update | |
To manage the operations done on GKE cluster | container.operations.get | ||