NetBackup™ Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (9.1)
  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. Monitoring NetBackup
    1.  
      The NetBackup dashboard
    2.  
      Monitoring jobs
    3.  
      Filter jobs in the job list
  3. Managing VMware servers
    1.  
      Add VMware servers
    2.  
      Validate and update VMware server credentials
    3.  
      Browse VMware servers
    4.  
      Remove VMware servers
    5.  
      Create an intelligent VM group
    6.  
      Remove an intelligent VM group
    7.  
      Add a VMware access host
    8.  
      Remove a VMware access host
    9.  
      Change resource limits for VMware resource types
    10.  
      Change the autodiscovery frequency of VMware assets
    11.  
      Discover VMware server assets manually
  4. Protecting VMs
    1.  
      Working with VMware policies in the web UI
    2. Protect VMs or intelligent VM groups
      1.  
        Protect SQL Server data with a VMware backup
    3. Edit protection settings for a VMware asset
      1.  
        Schedules
      2.  
        Backup options and Advanced options
      3.  
        Exclude disks from backups
      4.  
        Snapshot retry options
    4.  
      Remove protection from VMs or intelligent VM groups
    5.  
      View the protection status of VMs or intelligent VM groups
  5. Instant access
    1.  
      Create an instant access VM
    2.  
      Restore files and folders from a VM backup image
    3.  
      Download files and folders from a VM backup image
    4.  
      Things to consider before you use the instant access feature
    5. Instant access Build Your Own (BYO)
      1.  
        Prerequisites of Instant Access Build Your Own (BYO)
      2.  
        Hardware configuration requirement of Instant Access Build Your Own (BYO)
      3.  
        Frequently asked questions
  6. Instant rollback
    1.  
      Prerequisites of instant rollback
    2.  
      Things to consider before you use the instant rollback feature
    3.  
      Instant rollback from a VM backup image
  7. Continuous data protection
    1.  
      CDP terminology
    2.  
      CDP Architecture
    3.  
      About continuous data protection
    4.  
      Prerequisites
    5.  
      Capacity-based licensing for CDP
    6.  
      Configuring CDP
    7.  
      Defining the CDP gateway
    8.  
      Sizing considerations
    9.  
      Limiting concurrent CDP backup jobs
    10.  
      Controlling full sync
    11.  
      Monitoring CDP jobs
    12.  
      Using accelerators with CDP
    13.  
      Recovering CDP protected VMs
    14.  
      Some limitations of CDP
    15.  
      Troubleshooting for CDP
  8. VM recovery
    1.  
      Recover a VM
    2.  
      About VMware agentless restore
    3.  
      Prerequisites and limitations of VMware agentless restores
    4.  
      Recover files and folders with VMware agentless restore
    5.  
      About restricted restore mode
  9. Troubleshooting VMware operations
    1.  
      Errors when adding VMware servers
    2.  
      Errors when browsing VMware servers
    3.  
      Errors for the Status for a newly discovered VM
    4.  
      Error when downloading files from an instant access VM
    5.  
      Troubleshooting backups and restores of excluded virtual disks
    6.  
      Restore fails for a virtual machine with multiple datastores
    7.  
      Errors when you change the recovery destination

About restricted restore mode

The restricted restore mode option is a form of VMware agentless restore for restricted environments such as Windows User Account Control (UAC). The user-selected files are first staged to the recovery host and then restored to the virtual machine. The recovery host must have sufficient space for staging.

The default staging location on the recovery host is install_path\VERITAS\NetBackup\var\tmp\staging. NetBackup creates this directory with the correct permissions the first time it is accessed. You can change the staging location with the AGENTLESS_RHOST_STAGING_PATH registry setting on the recovery host. This REG_SZ registry key does not exist by default. It must be created in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VERITAS\NetBackup\CurrentVersion\Config.

If you change the staging location, Veritas recommends that you let NetBackup create the staging directory. When you let NetBackup create the directory, the permissions are set correctly. For NetBackup to create the new staging directory, the immediate parent directory must exist. If you want the restore to use E:\recovery\staging, then E:\recovery must exist. If the E:\recovery directory does not exist, the restore fails.

If you create the directory yourself, the SYSTEM, the domain administrator, and the local administrator accounts must have Full Control permissions. Additionally, Access Control Lists inherited from the parent directory are not secure and must be disabled.

Restricted restore mode supports alternate location restores. You can configure the alternate location in the NetBackup web UI.

Limitations of restricted restore mode:

  • Restricted restore mode is currently only supported on Windows. The recovery host must also be Windows.

  • The file ownership of the restored files is set to the account that was used for the NetBackup backup operation.

  • Restore of ACLs is not supported.

  • Restricted restore mode does not support renaming of targets for soft links.

  • Restricted restore mode creates new files where hard links had previously been used.

  • Irregular files such as sparse files, device files, special files, and junction points are not supported.

  • A supported version of VMware Tools must be running for the restore to succeed.

  • File path length with the directory cannot exceed 260 characters.

Performance considerations

File transport through the required infrastructure for this restore method is significantly slower than VMware agentless restores. As a result of performance concerns, Veritas recommends limiting the restore to fewer than 100 files and less than 1 GB of data.