NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.5)
  1. Managing and protecting cloud assets
    1.  
      About protecting cloud assets
    2.  
      Limitations and considerations
    3.  
      AWS and Azure government cloud support
    4. Configure Snapshot Manager in NetBackup
      1.  
        Add a Snapshot Manager
      2. Add a cloud provider for a Snapshot Manager
        1.  
          Adding a new region
        2.  
          IAM Role for AWS Configuration
        3.  
          IAM policy for OCI configuration
      3.  
        Associate media servers with a Snapshot Manager
      4.  
        Discover assets on Snapshot Manager
      5.  
        Enable or disable a Snapshot Manager
      6.  
        (Optional) Add the Snapshot Manager extension
    5. Managing intelligent groups for cloud assets
      1.  
        Considerations for cloud intelligent groups
      2.  
        Create an intelligent group for cloud assets
      3.  
        Delete an intelligent group for cloud assets
    6. Protecting cloud assets or intelligent groups for cloud assets
      1.  
        Customize or edit protection for cloud assets or intelligent groups
      2.  
        Remove protection from cloud assets or intelligent groups
    7. Managing policies for cloud assets
      1.  
        Limitations and considerations
      2. Add an SLP and cloud policy
        1.  
          Setting up attributes for IaaS cloud type
        2.  
          Setting up attributes for PaaS cloud type
        3. Creating schedule attributes for PaaS policy type
          1.  
            Configuring the Start window
          2.  
            Configuring the exclude dates
          3.  
            Configuring the include dates
        4.  
          Configuring the cloud assets for IaaS
        5.  
          Configuring the cloud assets for PaaS
        6.  
          Backup options for IaaS
      3.  
        Operations on cloud policy
      4.  
        PaaS and IaaS policy SLP configurations
    8. Scan for malware
      1.  
        Scanning backup images
      2.  
        Assets by workload type
    9. Protecting Microsoft Azure resources using resource groups
      1.  
        Before you begin
      2.  
        Limitations and considerations
      3. About resource group configurations and outcome
        1.  
          Examples of resource group configurations
      4.  
        Troubleshoot resource group permissions
    10. NetBackup Accelerator for cloud workloads
      1.  
        How the NetBackup Accelerator works with virtual machines
      2.  
        Accelerator forced rescan for virtual machines (schedule attribute)
      3.  
        Accelerator backups and the NetBackup catalog
      4.  
        Accelerator messages in the backup job details log
    11.  
      Configuring backup schedules for cloud workloads using protection plan
    12.  
      Backup options for cloud workloads
    13. AWS Snapshot replication
      1.  
        Configure AWS snapshot replication
      2.  
        Using AWS snapshot replication
      3.  
        Support matrix for account replication
    14.  
      Protect applications in-cloud with application-consistent snapshots
    15. Protecting PaaS assets
      1.  
        Prerequisites for protecting PaaS assets
      2. Installing the native client utilities
        1.  
          Installing the MySQL client utility
        2.  
          Installing the sqlpackage client utility
        3.  
          Installing PostgreSQL client utility
        4.  
          Installing MongoDB client utility
        5.  
          Installing the Amazon RDS for Oracle client utility
      3.  
        Configuring the storage server for instant access
      4.  
        Prerequisites for protecting Amazon RDS SQL Server database assets
      5. Configuring storage for different deployments
        1.  
          For MSDP cloud deployments
        2.  
          For Kubernetes deployments
        3.  
          For VM-based BYO deployments
      6.  
        About incremental backup for PaaS workloads
      7.  
        Configuring incremental backups for Azure MySQL server
      8.  
        About archive redo log backup for PaaS workloads
      9.  
        About Auto Image Replication for PaaS workloads
      10.  
        Limitations and considerations
      11.  
        Discovering PaaS assets
      12.  
        Viewing PaaS assets
      13.  
        Managing PaaS credentials
      14.  
        View the credential name that is applied to a database
      15. Add credentials to a database
        1.  
          Creating an IAM database username
        2.  
          Configuring permissions for the database user
        3.  
          Creating a system or user-managed identity username
      16.  
        Add protection to PaaS assets
      17.  
        Perform backup now
    16.  
      Protecting AWS or Azure VMs for recovering to VMware
    17.  
      Cloud asset cleanup
    18.  
      Cloud asset filtering
  2. Recovering cloud assets
    1. Recovering cloud assets
      1.  
        About the pre-recovery check for VMs
      2.  
        Supported parameters for restoring cloud assets
      3.  
        Restoring to a different cloud provider
      4.  
        Recovering virtual machines
      5.  
        Recovering applications and volumes to their original location
      6.  
        Recovering applications and volumes to an alternate location
      7.  
        Additional steps required after restoring an AWS RDS database instance
      8.  
        Recovery scenarios for GCP VMs with read-only volumes
      9.  
        (GCP only) Restoring virtual machines and volumes using the autoDelete disk support
    2.  
      Perform rollback recovery of cloud assets
    3. Restore to a different cloud provider
      1.  
        Prepare the VMs for back up
      2.  
        Post-restore configurations
    4. Recovering AWS or Azure VMs to VMware
      1.  
        Post-recovery considerations for cloud VMs recovered to VMware
      2. Steps to recover images from cloud VMs to VMware
        1.  
          Recovering images from AWS to VMware
        2.  
          Recovering images from Azure to VMware
    5. Recovering PaaS assets
      1.  
        Recovering non-RDS PaaS assets
      2.  
        Recovering Redshift clusters
      3.  
        Recovering RDS-based PaaS asset
      4.  
        Recovering Azure-protected assets
      5.  
        Recovering duplicate images from AdvancedDisk
  3. Performing granular restore
    1.  
      About granular restore
    2.  
      Supported environment list
    3.  
      List of supported file systems
    4.  
      Before you begin
    5.  
      Limitations and considerations
    6.  
      Restoring files and folders from cloud virtual machines
    7.  
      Restoring volumes on cloud virtual machines
    8.  
      Performing steps after volume restore containing LVM
    9.  
      Troubleshooting
  4. Troubleshooting protection and recovery of cloud assets
    1.  
      Troubleshoot cloud workload protection issues
    2.  
      Error Code 9855: Error occurred while exporting snapshot for the asset: <asset_name>
    3.  
      Backup from snapshot jobs take longer time than expected
    4.  
      Backup from snapshot job fails due to connectivity issues when Snapshot Manager is deployed on an Ubuntu host
    5.  
      Error disambiguation in NetBackup UI
    6.  
      Status Code 150: Termination requested by administrator
    7. Troubleshoot PaaS workload protection and recovery issues
      1.  
        Troubleshooting Amazon Redshift issues

Restoring files and folders from cloud virtual machines

You can restore a single file or folder from a cloud virtual machine.

Note:

For Microsoft Azure, GCP, OCI, and AWS, NetBackup supports snapshot and recovery of cloud assets that are encrypted using the keys that the manager provides.

To restore a file or folder

  1. On the left, click Workloads > Cloud.
  2. Click on the Virtual machines tab.
  3. Select the virtual machine where the application is hosted. On the top right, click Connect.
  4. After the VM is connected, on the top right, click Add protection.
  5. Select a protection plan that is created for granular recovery of files and folders and click Next.
  6. Click Protect.
  7. To execute the protection plan, click Backup now.
  8. After a snapshot and the two indexing job or two backup from snapshot jobs for the assets are complete, click the Recovery points tab.
  9. For the preferred recovery point, select Restore files and folders from the Action menu.

    You can also restore files and folders for Snapshot and Backup type of copies by clicking Recover and then selecting Restore files and folders.

  10. In the Add file step, click Add.
  11. In the Add files and folders dialog, select the files you want to restore and click Add.

    You can click the folders or drives on the left to expand and view the files in a particular folder. You can search files based on their names or extensions.

  12. Click Next.
  13. In the Recovery target step, perform the following:

    Dialog box

    Snapshot copy

    Backup copy

    Restore to

    Target VM - Select a VM. A list of all connected VMs having the same operating systems as the original target host is displayed. If you do not select a VM, the files are restored to the original VM.

    • Cloud provider - Select the cloud provider to where single file restore is to be performed.

    • Configuration - To restore to an alternate configuration, select one from the drop-down.

    • Region - To restore to an alternate region, select one from the drop-down.

    • (For Azure and Azure Stack Hub only) Subscription - To restore to an alternate subscription, select one from the drop-down.

    • Target VM - Select a VM. A list of all connected/disconnected and Linux/Windows VMs is displayed for cross-platform restore.

    Restore target options

    • Restore everything to original location

    • Restore everything to a different location

      You must then provide a directory location. You can also enter a UNC path to the location.

    Restoring files and folders across cloud providers is supported using granular restore from backup copy. Source VM and target VM can be part of different cloud providers to perform granular restore.

    Cross-platform restore is supported for the following scenarios:

    • NetBackup and Snapshot Manager on one cloud, target host on another cloud.

    • NetBackup and Snapshot Manager on one cloud, another Snapshot Manager and target host on another cloud.

    • NetBackup and Snapshot Manager on one cloud, AIR (Auto Image Replication) restore on another domain.

  14. If Restore everything to original location option is selected, then click Next and select the following preferred option in the Recovery options step:

    Dialog box

    Snapshot copy

    Backup copy

    Options

    • Append string to file names

      In the String field, enter the string that you want to use to append. The string is appended before the last extension of a file.

    • Allow overwrite of existing files

      You must have appropriate permissions.

    Advanced options

    N/A

    • (Applicable only for Windows to Windows restore) Require to restore access control list - Select the checkbox to restore access control list which requires additional operations.

    • Target host NAT gateway IP address - Enter network address translation gateway IP address, in case the target VM is behind a network gateway and is not directly accessible.

      Note:

      Only private IPs or host names are allowed.

  15. If Restore everything to a different location option is selected, then provide the Directory for restore and click Next.
  16. In the Review step, view the selected options and click Start Recovery.

The restore job for the selected files is triggered. You can view the job details on the Activity monitor. After the job is successful, you can see a summary of restored files in the job details.

Note:

Permissions on files are assigned based on uid/guid, during restore to non-similar environments (where user/groups do not match). Restored files/folders must have permission for non-intended users/groups on the target host. Hence after a successful restore of the required files, you must modify the access as per requirement.

Note the following:

When restoring hard links for single file restore from a snapshot or a backup (source Linux VM to target Linux VM), ensure the following guidelines:

  • When selecting folders and files in the Add files and folders dialog, do not select redundant entries. For example, selecting a folder and a file that exists in the same folder, since the folder already has that file.

  • Even if redundant entries are selected, ensure that you do not select the Allow overwrite of existing files option in the Recovery option step. Selecting this option fails copying the hard link file.