NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Deploying NetBackup for OpenStack
- Requirements
- NetBackup for OpenStack network considerations
- Existing endpoints in OpenStack
- OpenStack endpoints required by NetBackup for OpenStack
- Recommendation: Provide access to all OpenStack Endpoint types
- Backup target access required by NetBackup for OpenStack
- Example of a typical NetBackup for OpenStack network integration
- Other examples of NetBackup for OpenStack network integrations
- Preparing the installation
- Spinning up the NetBackup for OpenStack virtual machine
- About NetBackup for OpenStack backup target types
- Installing NetBackup for OpenStack Components
- Installing on RHOSP
- Prepare for deployment
- Uploading the NetBackup for OpenStack puppet module
- Updating the overcloud roles data file to include NetBackup for OpenStack services
- Preparing the NetBackup for OpenStack container images
- Providing the environment details in nbos_env.yaml
- Deploying the overcloud with NetBackup OpenStack environment
- Verifying the deployment
- Additional Steps on NetBackup for OpenStack Appliance
- Troubleshooting for overcloud deployment failures
- Installing on Ansible OpenStack Ussuri
- Installing on Kolla
- Changing the nova user ID on the NetBackup for OpenStack Nodes
- Copying the NetBackup for OpenStack deployment scripts
- Copying the NetBackup for OpenStack deployment scripts to Kolla-ansible deploy scripts
- Pushing NetBackup for OpenStack images to the local registry
- Editing globals.yml to set NetBackup for OpenStack parameters
- Enabling the NetBackup for OpenStack backup mount feature
- Pulling the NetBackup for OpenStack container images
- Deploying the NetBackup for OpenStack components
- Verifying the NetBackup for OpenStack deployment
- Installing on RHOSP
- Configuring NetBackup for OpenStack
- Resource throttling in NetBackup for OpenStack
- Post Installation Health-Check
- Uninstalling NetBackup for OpenStack
- Uninstalling from RHOSP
- Clean NetBackup for OpenStack datamover API service
- Clean NetBackup for OpenStack datamover service
- Clean NetBackup for OpenStack haproxy resources
- Clean NetBackup for OpenStack Keystone resources
- Clean NetBackup for OpenStack database resources
- Revert overcloud deploy command
- Revert back to original RHOSP Horizon container
- Destroy the NetBackup for OpenStack virtual machine cluster
- Uninstalling from Ansible OpenStack
- Uninstall NetBackup for OpenStack Services
- Destroy NetBackup for OpenStack datamover API container
- Clean openstack_user_config.yml
- Remove NetBackup for OpenStack haproxy settings in user_variables.yml
- Remove NetBackup for OpenStack datamover API inventory file
- Remove NetBackup for OpenStack datamover API service endpoints
- Delete NetBackup for OpenStack datamover API database and user
- Remove nbosdmapi rabbitmq user from rabbitmq container
- Clean haproxy
- Remove certificates from Compute nodes
- Destroy the NetBackup for OpenStack virtual machine cluster
- Uninstalling from Kolla Openstack
- Cleaning NetBackupOpenStack_datamover_api container
- Cleaning NetBackupOpenStack_datamover container
- Cleaning haproxy of NetBackupOpenStack datamover API
- Cleaning Kolla Ansible deployment procedure
- Reverting to original Horizon container
- Cleaning Keystone resources
- Cleaning NetBackup for OpenStack database resources
- Destroy the NetBackup for OpenStack virtual machine cluster
- Uninstalling from RHOSP
- Install nbosjm CLI client
- About log rotation in NetBackup for OpenStack
- Upgrading NetBackup for OpenStack
- Configuring NetBackup OpenStack Appliance
- Configuring NetBackup primary server
- NetBackup for OpenStack protections
- Performing snapshots, backups, and restores of OpenStack
- About recovery points
- List of recovery points
- Creating a snapshot
- Snapshot and backup overview
- Expire recovery points
- Cleaning up the volume snapshots
- About restores
- List of Restores
- Restores overview
- Delete a restore
- Cancel a restore
- One-click restore
- Selective restore
- In-place restore
- Required restore.json file for CLI
- About backup mount
- Creating a file recovery manager instance
- Mounting a backup copy
- Accessing the file recovery manager
- Identifying mounted backups
- Unmounting a backup
- About schedules
- About activating the email notifications
- Performing Backup Administration tasks
- Disaster recovery
- Troubleshooting
- General Troubleshooting Tips
- Using the nbosjm CLI tool on the NetBackup for OpenStack Appliance
- Health check of NetBackup for OpenStack
- Important log files
- Troubleshooting NBOSDM container in offline state due to unavailable mount point
- After restore of the Windows instance, the disk is in an offline state
- Selective restore from snapshot copy fails
- A backup fails due to an old nova ID in the universal share path
- Using the NetBackup support utility in NetBackup for OpenStack
- Cannot create volumes if the metadata size for physical volume and volume group is small
- NBOSVM configuration fails if DNS server cannot resolve IP address or IP address is wrong
- Error when storage unit is created with multiple storage servers
- Snapshot job fails if the OpenStack image is not accessible to the OpenStack user
- One-click restore fails if the subnet attached to the instance is not accessible to the OpenStack user
- The NBOSVM configurator UI does not detect the primary server
- A recovery point name is updated to a default name
- NBOS Backups and NBOS Backup Admin tabs disappear from Horizon UI after stack is updated
- The protection creation fails on the Horizon UI
- The NetBackup for OpenStack services do not start after NBOSVM is restarted
- The NBOSVM is not able to communicate with the nbosdmapi on the controller node
- Troubleshooting the OpenStack Keystone authentication failure
- Index
Protection overview
View the information about the protection in the protection overview.
To enter the protection overview inside Horizon do the following steps:
On the Horizon console, navigate to NBOS Backups > Protection.
Identify the protection to view.
Click the protection name to view the protection overview.
Details
The Protection Details tab provides the following information about the protection:
Name
Description
Availability Zone
Created at
Last updated at
Protection ID
Protection type
Protection plan name
Protection plan ID
Project ID
User ID
List of protected virtual machines including the information of qemu guest agent availability
The status of the QEMU guest agent shows whether the necessary OpenStack configuration is done for this virtual machine to provide QEMU guest agent integration. It does not check if the QEMU guest agent is installed and configured on the virtual machine.
You can navigate to the protected virtual machine directly from the list of protected virtual machines.
Recovery Point
The Recovery Point tab shows the list of all available recovery points in the chosen protection.
The copies are visible against the recovery points. These copies can be snapshot, backup, or duplicate copy.
Protection Plan
The Protection Plan tab gives an overview of the current configured scheduler and retention protection. The following elements are shown:
Scheduler Enabled or Disabled
Start Date and Time
End Date and Time
Repeat Every
Time until the next snapshot runs
Backup retention
Backup retention
Duplication
nbosjm protection-show <protection-id>
[--verbose <verbose>]
[--scheduler_trust <scheduler_trust {true}>]
<protection-id> ID or name of the protection to show.
--verbose Option to show additional information about the protection.
--scheduler_trust Show protection for which schedule is enabled or not.