NetBackup™ Web UI Nutanix AHV Administrator's Guide
- Overview
- Managing AHV clusters
- Quick configuration checklist to protect AHV virtual machines
- Configure secure communication between the AHV cluster and NetBackup host and Nutanix Prism Central and NetBackup host
- Enable the iSCSI initiator service on windows backup host
- Install the iSCSI initiator package on Linux backup host
- Migrate Java GUI/CLI added clusters into WebUI
- Configure Nutanix AHV cluster
- Configure CHAP settings for iSCSI secure communication with AHV clusters
- About the ports that NetBackup uses to communicate with AHV
- Add or browse an AHV cluster
- Remove AHV Clusters
- Add a new Nutanix Prism Central
- Add new Prism Central server credentials
- Remove Nutanix Prism Central
- Create an intelligent VM group
- Assign permissions to the intelligent VM group
- Update the intelligent VM group
- Remove the intelligent VM group
- Set CHAP for iSCSI
- Add an AHV access host
- Remove an AHV access host
- Change resource limits for AHV resource types
- Change the autodiscovery frequency of AHV assets
- Managing credentials
- Protecting AHV virtual machines
- Things to know before you protect AHV virtual machines
- Protect AHV VMs or intelligent VM groups
- Protect AHV VMs within VPC
- Customize protection settings for an AHV asset
- Schedules and retention
- Backup options
- Prerequisite to Enable virtual machine quiescing
- Remove protection from VMs or intelligent VM groups
- View the protection status of VMs or intelligent VM groups
- Recovering AHV virtual machines
- Things to consider before you recover the AHV virtual machines
- About the pre-recovery check
- Recover an AHV virtual machine
- Recover an AHV VM within VPC
- About Nutanix AHV agentless files and folders restore
- Prerequisites for agentless files and folder recovery
- SSH key fingerprint
- Recover files and folders with Nutanix AHV agentless restore
- Recovery target options
- Pre-recovery checks for Nutanix AHV
- About Nutanix-AHV agent-based files and folders restore
- Prerequisites for agent-based files and folder recovery
- Recover files and folders with Nutanix AHV agent based restore
- Limitations
- Troubleshooting AHV operations
- API and command line options for AHV
Limitations
Cross-platform recovery operation of individual files is not supported. You can restore windows files only on windows guest operating systems and Linux files to only supported Linux guest operating. That implies, the recovery host must be the same platform as the files that you want to restore.
In a recovery process, NetBackup recreates the links between a hard link and its original file. Only in this case, the link file, and its target file must be restored in the same job.
Note:
If each file is restored individually in separate restore jobs, they are restored as separate files and the link is not re-established.
For dual-boot virtual machines, NetBackup does not support recovery of individual files or folders.
For client platform and file system support and limitations, see https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/NB_70_80_VE .
The Flatten existing directory structure and Append string to file names options are only applicable to files. They are not available for directories.
If you select and Overwrite existing filesoptions, you risk an incorrect restore, if it contains multiple files with the same file name.
Note:
The last restored file is available, when the restore completes.
If you select the option but do not select , the restore succeeds, but the first file that is restored is present when the restore completes. To prevent, do not select when restoring multiple files with the same name.
If a backup and a restore occur simultaneously on the same VM, one or both jobs can have unexpected results.
Note:
If a backup or a restore exits with a non-zero NetBackup Status Code, one possible cause is simultaneous jobs occurring on the same VM.
If selected restore data contains any hidden files such as
.bashrc,.bash_history, Append string to file names restore option is not supported.Nutanix agentless restores can only be used to the restore of files and folders.
Restore job fails, if NetBackup does not have sufficient privileges to the staging directory or if there is insufficient space in the staging directory.
Note:
Veritas does not recommend Nutanix AHV agentless restore, if a NetBackup client already exists on the target VM. The NetBackup administrator must use the agent-based restore in such cases.
On windows target host, restore destination to a mapped drive, is not supported.
NetBackup does not support the communication with windows target host with a use of
openSSH. In such cases restore job fails.NetBackup does not support non-ASCII characters in target host staging-location path.
NetBackup only supports NTLM authentication type for windows target host.
AHV images backed-up before 9.1 release, cannot be restored from web UI. To restore these images user must use NetBackup Administration Console.
AHV backup images are available on web UI, even if the backup was taken from NetBackup Administration Console provided the backup host has NetBackup version 9.1 or later.
About the backup images on web UI:
If the asset discovery is successful, and after that backup is taken from NetBackup Administration Console, backup images are available on web UI.
If the primary sever and backup host are upgraded to 9.1, backup is taken from NetBackup Administration Console, and then if you configure web UI, you must run asset discovery to see the backup images.
If the primary sever is upgraded to 9.1 but backup host is version is still before 9.1 and backup is taken from NetBackup Administration Console. Then, if you configure web UI, you cannot see the backup images even after asset discovery.