NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Object Store Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Managing Cloud object store assets
- Protecting Cloud object store assets
- About accelerator support
- About incremental backup
- About policies for Cloud object store assets
- Planning for policies
- Prerequisites for Cloud object store policies
- Creating a backup policy
- Setting up attributes
- Creating schedule attributes for policies
- Configuring the Start window
- Configuring exclude dates
- Configuring include dates
- Configuring the Cloud objects tab
- Adding conditions
- Adding tag conditions
- Example of conditions and tag conditions
- Managing Cloud object store policies
- Recovering Cloud object store assets
- Troubleshooting
- Recovery for Cloud object store using web UI for original bucket recovery option starts but job fails with error 3601
- Recovery Job does not start
- Restore fails: "Error bpbrm (PID=3899) client restore EXIT STATUS 40: network connection broken"
- Access tier property not restored after overwrite existing to original location
- Reduced accelerator optimization in Azure for OR query with multiple tags
- Backup is failed and shows a certificate error with Amazon S3 bucket names containing dots (.)
- Azure backup job fails when space is provided in tag query for either tag key name or value.
- The Cloud object store account has encountered an error
- Bucket list empty when selecting it in policy selection
- Creating second account on Cloudian fails by selecting existing region
- Restore failed with 2825 incomplete restore operation
- Bucket listing of cloud provider fails when adding bucket in Cloud objects tab
- AIR import image restore fails on the target domain if the Cloud store account is not added in target domain.
Features of NetBackup Cloud object store workload support
Table: Salient features
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Integration with NetBackup role-based access control (RBAC) |
The NetBackup web UI provides the Default cloud object store Administrator RBAC role to control which NetBackup users can manage Cloud object store operations in NetBackup. The user does not need to be a NetBackup administrator to manage Cloud object store operations. |
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Management of Cloud object store accounts |
You can configure a single NetBackup primary server for multiple Cloud object store accounts, across different cloud vendors as required. |
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Authentication and credentials |
Wide emphasis for security. For protecting Azure Blob Storage, Storage account, and Access Key must be specified. For all S3 API-compliant cloud vendors, Access key and Secret Key are supported. For Amazon S3, in addition to Access Key, IAM role and Assume role mechanism of authentication are also supported. |
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Backup policy |
A single backup policy can protect multiple S3 buckets or Azure blob containers from one Cloud object store account. |
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Intelligent selection of cloud objects |
Within a single policy, NetBackup provides flexibility to configure different queries for different buckets or containers. Some buckets or containers can be configured to backup all objects in them. You can also configure some bucket and containers with intelligent queries to identify objects based on:
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Scalable solution |
In addition to full backup, NetBackup also supports different types of incremental schedules for faster backups. Accelerator feature is also supported for Cloud object store policy. Enable checkpoint restart in the policy to be able to restart a failed or suspended job, right from the point that it stopped. We do not need to repeat the entire data transfer from the start of the job. |
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Granular restore |
NetBackup supports an easy way to restore all objects in a bucket/container, as well as provides prefix, folder and object-based views to restore only a selected subset of the objects. You can narrow down a selection of backup images for restore in NetBackup by providing a date and time range. |
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Restore options |
NetBackup supports adding an arbitrary prefix to all objects when restoring. Thereby, restores the objects with a different name when you do not want the restored objects to interfere with the original objects. By default, NetBackup skips overwriting objects that already exist in the cloud object store to conserve on bandwidth and cloud costs. You can change this default behavior using the Overwrite option, so that restored copies can overwrite the cloud object store copies. |
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Alternate location restore |
Objects selected for restore can be restored:
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