NetBackup™ Web UI Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (9.0.0.1, 9.0)
  1. Introducing the NetBackup web user interface
    1.  
      About the NetBackup web UI
    2.  
      Terminology
    3.  
      Sign in to the NetBackup web UI
    4.  
      Sign out of the NetBackup web UI
  2. About NetBackup for SQL Server
    1.  
      Overview of NetBackup for SQL Server
  3. Installation and host configuration
    1.  
      Planning the installation of NetBackup for SQL Server
    2. Configuring SQL Server hosts and user permissions
      1.  
        Installing the Veritas VSS provider for vSphere
    3.  
      Configuring the NetBackup services for SQL Server backups and restores
    4.  
      Configure local security privileges for SQL Server
  4. Monitoring and notifications
    1.  
      The NetBackup dashboard
    2.  
      Monitoring jobs
    3.  
      Filter jobs in the job list
  5. Managing SQL Server discovery and credentials
    1. About discovery of SQL Server objects
      1.  
        Discover advanced or basic availability groups on demand
      2.  
        Discover databases on demand
      3.  
        Discover read-scale availability groups
    2.  
      Browse SQL Server assets
    3.  
      About SQL Server credentials
    4.  
      Add credentials to SQL Server instances or replicas
    5.  
      Manage SQL Server credentials
    6.  
      Remove SQL Server instances
    7.  
      Manually add a SQL Server instance
  6. Managing protection plans for SQL Server
    1.  
      About protecting SQL Server availability groups
    2. Create a protection plan to protect SQL Server assets
      1.  
        Schedules and retention
      2.  
        Performance tuning and configuration options
      3.  
        Using copy-only snapshot backups to affect how differentials are based
      4.  
        Snapshot methods
    3.  
      Protect a SQL Server availability group that crosses NetBackup domains
  7. Protecting SQL Server
    1.  
      Add SQL Server assets to a protection plan
    2.  
      Edit protection settings for a Microsoft SQL Server asset
    3.  
      View the protection status of databases, instances, or availability groups
    4.  
      Remove protection from SQL Server assets
  8. Restoring SQL Server
    1.  
      Requirements for restores of SQL Server
    2.  
      Perform a complete database recovery
    3.  
      Recover a single recovery point
    4.  
      Options for SQL Server restores
    5.  
      Restore a SQL Server availability database to a secondary replica
    6.  
      Restore a SQL Server availability database to the primary and the secondary replicas
  9. Using instant access with SQL Server
    1. Prerequisites when you configure an instant access SQL Server database
      1.  
        Hardware configuration requirement of instant access
    2.  
      Things to consider before you configure an instant access database
    3.  
      Configure Samba users for SQL Server instant access
    4.  
      Configure an instant access database
    5.  
      View the livemount details of an instant access database
    6.  
      Delete an instant access database
    7.  
      Options for NetBackup for SQL Server instant access
    8.  
      NetBackup for SQL Server terms
    9.  
      Frequently asked questions
  10. Protecting SQL Server with VMware backups
    1.  
      About protecting an application database with VMware backups
    2. Create a protection plan to protect SQL Server data with a VMware backup
      1.  
        Backup options and Advanced options
      2.  
        Exclude disks from backups
      3.  
        Snapshot retry options
    3.  
      Protect SQL Server data with a VMware backup
    4.  
      Restore SQL Server databases from a VMware backup
  11. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Troubleshooting credential validation
    2.  
      Troubleshooting VMware backups and restores of SQL Server
    3.  
      SQL Server log truncation failure during VMware backups of SQL Server

Options for SQL Server restores

The following options exist when you perform restores of SQL Server.

Table: Recovery options

Option

Description

Verify backup image but do not restore

NetBackup processes the image for errors, but does not perform a restore. This option does not apply to snapshot images.

Database recovery state after restore

Select the state for the database after the restore.

  • Recover

    Restore the last image in a restore sequence and make the database ready for use.

  • Restoring

    Restore an intermediate backup image. The database is left in a loading state so you can restore and apply additional backup images.

  • Standby

    Create and maintain a standby during a transaction log and database restore. This option requires a standby undo log, which by default is placed in the same directory as the primary datafile. The account that runs the SQL Server service must have full access permission to the SQLStandBy folder.

Consistency check

The consistency check to perform after the restore. Output from the consistency check is written to the SQL Server client progress log.

  • Do not perform

    Do not perform consistency checking.

  • Full check, including indexes

    Include indexes in the consistency check. Any errors are logged.

  • Full check, excluding indexes

    Exclude indexes from the consistency check. If indexes are not checked, the consistency check runs significantly faster but is not as thorough. Only the data pages and clustered index pages for each user table are included in the consistency check. The consistency of the non-clustered index pages is not checked.

  • Check catalog

    Check for consistency in and between system tables in the specified database.

  • Physical check only

    Perform a low overhead check of the physical consistency of the SQL Server database. This option only verifies the integrity of the physical structure of the page and the record headers. It also verifies the consistency between the pages' object ID and index ID and the allocation structures.

Overwrite the existing database

Allows SQL Server to overwrite a database or any database files, if they already exist.

If this operation is not available, contact your NetBackup administrator for the necessary RBAC permission.

VDI timeout

Determines the time out interval for SQL Server Virtual Device Interface. The selected interval is applied to backups and restores of databases and of transaction logs. The default value for backups is 300. The default value for restore operations is 600. Range is 300 - 2147483647.