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

Recover a single recovery point

Perform a recovery of a single recovery point when you want to restore backup images in separate restore operations.

To restore to a different server (host), the following requirements exist.

  • RBAC permissions to restore to an alternate location.

  • NetBackup must have the ability to communicate with the destination client.

Refer to the NetBackup Web UI Administrator's guide. Or, contact your NetBackup administrator for assistance.

To recover a single recovery point

  1. On the left, select Workloads > Microsoft SQL Server.
  2. Locate the name of the database that you want to restore.

    A standalone database

    Locate and select the database:

    • On the Instances tab, click on the instance that contains the database you want to restore.

    • On the Databases tab, click on the database that you want to restore.

    A database that is part of a SQL Server cluster

    Locate and select the database:

    • On the Instances tab, select the instance that belongs to the cluster.

      The Host name is the virtual name of the SQL Server cluster.

    • On the Databases tab, click on the database that you want to restore.

    A database that is part of a SQL Server failover cluster instance (FCI)

    On the Instances tab:

    • Select the instance name depending on how the FCI is protected.

      The instance name, where the Host name is the cluster name of the FCI.

      The instance name, where the Host name is one of the physical node names of the FCI.

    • On the Databases tab, click on the database that you want to restore.

    A SQL Server host that uses multiple NICs

    On the Instances tab, select one of the following:

    • Select the instance name depending on how the host is protected.

      The instance name, where the Host name is the private interface name of the SQL Server host.

      The instance name, where the Host name is the private interface name of the virtual SQL Server.

    • On the Databases tab, click on the database that you want to restore.

  3. Click the Recovery points tab.
  4. Select the full, differential, or transaction log that you want to restore. From the Actions menu select Restore single recovery point.
  5. (Conditional) For a transaction log image, select one of the following options and click Next.

    Recovery point selected

    Restore the database to the time indicated.

    Point in time

    Select a different point in time to which you want to restore the database.

    Transaction log mark

    • Choose whether to restore at or before the transaction mark.

    • Enter the name of the transaction mark.

    • To select a transaction mark that occurs after a certain date, select After specific date and time. Then specify the date and time.

  6. Select the host, instance, and database for recovery. You have the following options.
    • You can restore to the original host, instance, and database.

    • To restore to a different instance, type the name in the Instance field.

    • To select a different host and instance, click Change instance.

    • To restore to a different database, type the name in the Database name field.

  7. Select the path to which you want to restore the database files. You have the following options:

    Restore everything to the original directory

    Restores all the files to the original directory that was backed up.

    Restore everything to a different directory

    Restores all the files to the directory that you enter in the Directory for restore field.

    Restore files to different paths

    Restores individual files to the path that you enter. Click Edit file paths and click on any directory path to edit the restore path for that file.

    Example of a restore to different paths:

  8. Enter the credentials of the instance that you want to restore to and click Next.

    The user account must be a member of the Windows administrator group and a member of the local SQL Server sysadmin role.

  9. Select the recovery options.
    • Select the recovery state from the Database recovery state after restore options.

    • Select the other recovery options.

    • If you select the Recover option, choose a Consistency check option to perform after the restore.

    See Options for SQL Server restores.

  10. Click Next.
  11. On the Review page, review the restore options that you selected.
    • At the top, click on the link that follows Recovery set to view the backup images that are required for the restore.

    • Click Edit to change the Recovery target settings or Recovery options.

    • Click Start recovery.

  12. When the restore completes, continue with the restore of differential incremental or transaction log backups.
    • For each intermediate backup, for the Database recovery state after restore select Restoring.

    • For the final backup image, select Recovered.