NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Object Store Administrator's Guide

A valid Cloud object store account to access the bucket(s) and objects.

Keep handy information about the bucket(s) and the criteria that you want to use for selecting objects from them, in the Cloud objects tab.

In the Cloud objects tab, you must have permission to view and select the Cloud object store account(s), and the access host to specify the backup host or scale-out server for a policy.

Evaluate the requirement for NetBackup accelerators in your environment. If you want to use accelerators, you need to specify this while creating the policy.

If you plan to use any other backup host or scale-out server, other than the one used for Cloud object store account validation: Make sure that required ports are opened and configurations are done for communication from the backup host or scale-out server to the cloud provider endpoint using REST API calls.

You can use a scale-out server if you have a large number of buckets in your Cloud object store. NetBackup Snapshot Manager can scale out as many data mover containers as needed at run time, and then scale them down when the data protection jobs are completed. You do not need to worry about configuring multiple backup hosts, and creating multiple policies to distribute the load across these backup hosts.

Evaluate the requirement for NetBackup multistreaming in your environment. For a given bucket, NetBackup creates one stream per query defined for the bucket in the policy. If you want to use multistreaming, you can specify this while creating the policy. To use multistream, you also need to configure the number of jobs for the buckets as client in the Client attributes section, under primary server Host properties. Add the client name and set the Maximum data streams as required.