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

Create an intelligent group for cloud assets

To create an intelligent group for cloud assets

  1. On the left, click Workloads > Cloud.
  2. Click the Intelligent groups tab and then click + Add.
  3. Enter a name and description for the group.
  4. Select the cloud provider, account ID, and region.

    Note:

    If the region is not specified, then the cloud intelligent group filter applies to the assets from all the discovered regions.

  5. Select the Asset type.
  6. Then do one of the following:

    • Select Include all assets of the selected type.

      This option uses a default query to select all assets for backup when the protection plan runs.

    • To select only the assets that meet specific conditions, create your query. Click Add condition.

  7. To add a condition, use the drop-downs to select a keyword and operator and then enter a value.

    See Query options for creating intelligent groups for cloud assets.

    To change the effect of the query, click + Condition and click AND or OR, then select the keyword, operator, and value for the condition. For example:

    This example uses OR to narrow the scope of the query: It selects only the VMs that have cp in their display name and that also have a tag name as eng, and are in running state.

    Note:

    The special character '<' is not supported in a tag name. If present, asset group creation fails.

    Note:

    Known limitation in NetBackup - if you create a query that has the asset tag names (referenced from your cloud provider) containing spaces or special characters such as (,), &, \, /, ", [, ], {, }, :, you cannot later edit the query for editing any parameters. This does not prevent you from successfully creating the intelligent group and applying the protection plan to it. Only the Edit query functionality is affected by this limitation.

    To avoid this issue, ensure that the tag names do not contain the specified special characters and create a new query with the new tag names.

    You can also add sub-queries to a condition. Click + Sub-query and click AND or OR, then select the keyword, operator, and value for the sub-query condition.

  8. To test the query, click Preview.

    The query-based selection process is dynamic. Changes in the virtual environment can affect which assets the query selects when the protection plan runs. As a result, the assets that the query selects later when the protection plan runs may not be identical to those currently listed in the preview.

    Note:

    When using queries in Intelligent groups, the NetBackup web UI might not display an accurate list of assets that match the query if the query condition has non-English characters.

    Using the not equals filter condition on any attribute returns assets including those that have no value (null) present for the attribute. For multi-value attributes such as tag, the assets that do not match at least one of the values of the attribute are not returned.

    Note:

    When you click Preview or you save the group, the query options are treated as case-sensitive when the assets are selected for the group. Under Virtual machines, if you click on a VM that was not selected for the group, the Intelligent groups field reads none.

  9. To save the group without adding it to a protection plan, click Add.

    To save the group and apply a protection plan to it, click Add and protect. Select the plan, and click Protect.

Query options for creating intelligent groups for cloud assets

Note:

The attribute values may not match exactly with the values shown on the cloud provider's portal. You can refer to the asset details page or the cloud provider's API response of an individual asset.

Table: Query keywords

Keyword

Description

(All values are case-sensitive)

displayName

Asset's display name.

state

For example, running, stopped etc.

tag

A label assigned to the asset for categorization.

instanceType / machineType / vmSize/shape

Asset's instance/machine type or VM size, depending on the cloud provider selection.

For example, t2.large, t3.large, or b2ms, d2sv3

parentEntityName

Name of the parent entity of the asset.

parentEntityType

Entity type of the parent entity of the asset.

resourceGroup

Resource group of the asset.

entityType

Entity type of the asset.

compartmentId

The asset's compartment OCID. OCI uses the compartmentId to organize and isolate the cloud resources.

Table: Query operators

Operator

Description

Starts with

Matches the value when it occurs at the start of a string.

Ends with

Matches the value when it occurs at the end of a string.

Contains

Matches the value you enter wherever that value occurs in the string.

=

Matches only the value that you enter.

Matches any value that is not equal to the value that you enter.

Note:

Once you create an intelligent group, you cannot edit the cloud provider selection for it, but you can edit the name and description, and modify the query as required.