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

Installing the sqlpackage client utility

You need to install this utility to protect the following databases:

  • Azure SQL

  • Azure SQL Managed Instance

  • AWS RDS SQL server

  • GCP SQL server

The sqlpackage client utility recommended version is 19.2 (Build: 162.0.52).

Download locations

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/tools//sqlpackage-download?view=sql-server-ver15

https://packages.microsoft.com/rhel/7/prod/msodbcsql17-17.9.1.1-1.x86_64.rpm

https://packages.microsoft.com/rhel/7/prod/unixODBC-2.3.7-1.rh.x86_64.rpm

To install, run the following commands in the terminal:

  1. cd ~
  2. mkdir sqlpackage
  3. unzip ~/Downloads/sqlpackage-linux-<version string>.zip -d ~/sqlpackage
  4. echo "export PATH=\"\$PATH:$HOME/sqlpackage\"">> ~/.bashrc
  5. chmod a+x ~/sqlpackage/sqlpackage
  6. source ~/.bashrc

    Note:

    Ensure that the sqlpackage is added as a default path variable. If you still get the: Cannot find sqlpackage error, restart the NetBackup services on the media server.

  7. sqlpackage
  8. rpm -ivh unixODBC-2.3.7-1.rh.x86_64.rpm
  9. rpm -ivh msodbcsql17-17.10.2.1-1.x86_64.rpm

If you still get the error: sqlpackage client utility does not exist on the given host, create a soft link for the sqlpackage to the path /usr/bin/sqlpackage.

For example:

If the sqlpackage is located at /root/sqlpackage/sqlpackage, create a soft link and then run the backup as:

ln -s /root/sqlpackage/sqlpackage/usr/bin/sqlpackage

RHEL 9 users perform the following additional steps:

  1. Download the Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.linux-x64 from the link:

    https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/package/Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.linux-x64/6.0.10

    Locate the file: microsoft.netcore.app.runtime.linux-x64.6.0.10.nupkg.

  2. Extract the file using a decompression tool like, 7zip.
  3. Navigate to:

    microsoft.netcore.app.runtime.linux-x64.6.0.10.nupkg\runtimes\linux-x64\lib\net6.0\

  4. Copy the file System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.dll from there to the ~/sqlpackage folder created in step 2 of installing the sqlpackage client utility task.

If you are attaching the 10.1 media server as an external media server with 10.1.1 NetBackup setup, perform the following steps on the 10.1 media server.

For a BYO NetBackup setup:

  • Run the command:

    mkdir -p <backup and restore ushare export path>

  • Check the Defaultvers value of NFS in the /etc/nfsmount.conf file.

    • If the Defaultvers value is nfs3, then mount the backup and restore ushare path with the option nolock. For example: mount <ushare mount path> <ushare export path> -o nolock

    • If the Defaultvers is nfs4, mount the backup and restore ushare path without the nolock option.

For NetBackup deployed in AKS and EKS environments:

  • Run the command:

    mkdir -p <backup and restore ushare export path>

  • Check the Defaultvers value of NFS from the /etc/nfsmount.conf file.

    • If the Defaultvers value is nfs3, then mount the backup and restore ushare path with the option nolock For example: mount <ushare mount path> <ushare export path> -o nolock

    • If the Defaultvers value is nfs4, then mount the v4 version of backup and restore ushare path without the nolock option.