NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (11.0)
  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. About storage lifecycle policies
      1.  
        Adding an SLP
      2.  
        SLP configurations for PaaS and IaaS policies
    8. Managing policies for cloud assets
      1.  
        Limitations and considerations
      2.  
        Planning for policies
      3.  
        Creating policies for cloud assets
      4.  
        Setting up attributes for PaaS assets
      5.  
        Setting up attributes for IaaS assets
      6.  
        Creating schedules
      7.  
        About backup frequency
      8.  
        About assigning retention periods
      9. Configuring the Start window
        1.  
          Example of schedule duration
      10.  
        Configuring the include dates
      11.  
        Configuring the exclude dates
      12.  
        Configuring the cloud assets for PaaS
      13.  
        Configuring the cloud assets for IaaS
      14.  
        Configuring backup options for IaaS
      15. Managing cloud policies
        1.  
          Copy a policy
        2.  
          Deactivating or deleting a policy
        3.  
          Manually backup assets
    9. Scan for malware
      1.  
        Scanning backup images
      2.  
        Assets by workload type
    10. 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
    11. 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
    12.  
      Configuring backup schedules for cloud workloads using protection plan
    13.  
      Backup options for cloud workloads
    14. AWS Snapshot replication
      1.  
        Configure AWS snapshot replication
      2.  
        Using AWS snapshot replication
      3.  
        Support matrix for account replication
    15.  
      Protect applications in-cloud with application-consistent snapshots
    16.  
      Protecting AWS or Azure VMs for recovering to VMware
    17.  
      Cloud asset cleanup
    18.  
      Cloud asset filtering
  2. Protecting PaaS assets
    1.  
      Protecting PaaS assets
    2.  
      Prerequisites for protecting PaaS assets
    3.  
      Enabling binary logging for MySQL and MariaDB databases
    4.  
      Enabling backup and restore in Kubernetes
    5.  
      Prerequisites for protecting Amazon RDS SQL Server database assets
    6. Protecting RDS Custom instances
      1.  
        Protecting RDS Custom for SQL Server assets
      2.  
        Consideration for protecting RDS Custom for SQL Server assets
      3.  
        Protecting RDS Custom for Oracle assets
      4.  
        Consideration for protecting RDS Custom for Oracle assets
    7. Protecting Azure Managed Instance databases
      1.  
        Prerequisites for protecting Azure Managed Instance databases
      2.  
        Permissions required for protecting Azure Managed Instance databases
    8. Limitation and considerations
      1.  
        For all databases
      2.  
        For PostgreSQL
      3.  
        For incremental backups for Azure PostgreSQL
      4.  
        For AWS RDS PostgreSQL and AWS Aurora PostgreSQL
      5.  
        For AWS DynamoDB
      6.  
        For AWS DocumentDB
      7.  
        For AWS Neptune
      8.  
        For AWS RDS SQL
      9.  
        For Azure, AWS RDS, and Aurora MySQL
      10.  
        For incremental backups using Azure MySQL server
      11.  
        For incremental backups using the GCP SQL Server
      12.  
        For Azure SQL and SQL Managed Instance
      13.  
        For Azure SQL and SQL Managed Instance (without temp. database)
      14.  
        For Azure SQL Server and SQL Managed Instance incremental backup
      15.  
        For Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
      16.  
        For Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
      17.  
        For Amazon RDS for Oracle
      18.  
        For Amazon Redshift databases
      19.  
        For Amazon Redshift clusters
      20.  
        For GCP SQL Server
      21.  
        For GCP BigQuery
    9. 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
    10. Configuring storage for different deployments
      1.  
        For MSDP cloud deployments
      2.  
        For Kubernetes deployments
      3.  
        For VM-based BYO deployments
    11.  
      Configuring the storage server for instant access
    12.  
      About incremental backup for PaaS workloads
    13.  
      Configuring incremental backups for Azure MySQL server
    14.  
      About archive redo log backup for PaaS workloads
    15.  
      About Auto Image Replication for PaaS workloads
    16.  
      Discovering PaaS assets
    17.  
      Viewing PaaS assets
    18. Managing PaaS credentials
      1.  
        View the credential name that is applied to a database
      2.  
        Add credentials to a database
      3.  
        Creating an IAM database username
      4.  
        Creating a system or user-managed identity username
      5.  
        Configuring permissions for the database user
    19. Add protection to PaaS assets
      1.  
        Perform backup now
  3. Recovering cloud assets
    1. Recovering cloud assets
      1.  
        About the pre-recovery check for VMs
      2.  
        Supported parameters for restoring cloud assets
      3.  
        Recovering virtual machines
      4.  
        Recovering applications and volumes to their original location
      5.  
        Recovering applications and volumes to an alternate location
      6.  
        Recovery scenarios for GCP VMs with read-only volumes
      7.  
        (GCP only) Restoring virtual machines and volumes using the autoDelete disk support
    2.  
      Perform rollback recovery of cloud assets
    3. 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
    4. Recovering PaaS assets
      1.  
        Recovering non-RDS PaaS assets
      2.  
        Recovering Redshift clusters
      3.  
        Recovering AWS DocumentDB and Neptune assets
      4.  
        Recovering RDS-based PaaS asset
      5.  
        Recovering Azure-protected assets
      6.  
        Recovering duplicate images from AdvancedDisk
  4. 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
  5. 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.  
      VMs and other OCI assets with CMK-encrypted disks are marked as deleted in NetBackup UI.
    4.  
      Backup from snapshot jobs take longer time than expected
    5.  
      Backup from snapshot job fails due to connectivity issues when Snapshot Manager is deployed on an Ubuntu host
    6.  
      Error disambiguation in NetBackup UI
    7.  
      Status Code 150: Termination requested by administrator
    8. Troubleshoot PaaS workload protection and recovery issues
      1.  
        Troubleshooting Amazon Redshift issues
      2.  
        Troubleshooting Azure Postgres issues
      3.  
        Troubleshooting Amazon RDS Custom for SQL 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.