NetBackup™ for Cloud Object Store Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (11.0)
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      Overview of NetBackup protection for Cloud object store
    2.  
      Features of NetBackup Cloud object store workload support
  2. Managing Cloud object store assets
    1.  
      Planning NetBackup protection for Cloud object store assets
    2.  
      Enhanced backup performance in 11.0 or later
    3.  
      Prerequisites for adding Cloud object store accounts
    4.  
      Configuring buffer size for backups
    5.  
      Configure a temporary staging location
    6.  
      Configuring advanced parameters for Cloud object store
    7.  
      Permissions required for Amazon S3 cloud provider user
    8.  
      Permissions required for Azure blob storage
    9.  
      Permissions required for GCP
    10.  
      Limitations and considerations
    11. Adding Cloud object store accounts
      1.  
        Creating cross-account access in AWS
      2.  
        Check certificate for revocation
      3.  
        Managing Certification Authorities (CA) for NetBackup Cloud
      4.  
        Adding a new region
    12.  
      Manage Cloud object store accounts
    13. Scan for malware
      1.  
        Backup images
      2.  
        Assets by policy type
  3. Protecting Cloud object store assets
    1. About accelerator support
      1.  
        How NetBackup accelerator works with Cloud object store
      2.  
        Accelerator notes and requirements
      3.  
        Accelerator force rescan for Cloud object store (schedule attribute)
      4.  
        Accelerator backup and NetBackup catalog
      5.  
        Calculate the NetBackup accelerator track log size
    2.  
      About incremental backup
    3.  
      About dynamic multi-streaming
    4. About storage lifecycle policies
      1.  
        Adding an SLP
    5.  
      About policies for Cloud object store assets
    6.  
      Planning for policies
    7.  
      Prerequisites for Cloud object store policies
    8.  
      Creating a backup policy
    9.  
      Policy attributes
    10.  
      Creating schedule attributes for policies
    11. Configuring the Start window
      1.  
        Adding, changing, or deleting a time window in a policy schedule
      2.  
        Example of schedule duration
    12.  
      Configuring the exclude dates
    13.  
      Configuring the include dates
    14.  
      Configuring the Cloud objects tab
    15.  
      Adding conditions
    16.  
      Adding tag conditions
    17.  
      Examples of conditions and tag conditions
    18. Managing Cloud object store policies
      1.  
        Copy a policy
      2.  
        Deactivating or deleting a policy
      3.  
        Manually backup assets
  4. Recovering Cloud object store assets
    1.  
      Prerequisites for recovering Cloud object store objects
    2.  
      Configuring Cloud object retention properties
    3.  
      Recovering Cloud object store assets
  5. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Error 5541: Cannot take backup, the specified staging location does not have enough space
    2.  
      Error 5537: Backup failed: Incorrect read/write permissions are specified for the download staging path.
    3.  
      Error 5538: Cannot perform backup. Incorrect ownership is specified for the download staging path.
    4.  
      Reduced acceleration during the first full backup, after upgrade to versions 10.5 and 11.
    5.  
      After backup, some files in the shm folder and shared memory are not cleaned up.
    6.  
      After an upgrade to NetBackup version 10.5, copying, activating, and deactivating policies may fail for older policies
    7.  
      Backup fails with default number of streams with the error: Failed to start NetBackup COSP process.
    8.  
      Backup fails, after you select a scale out server or Snapshot Manager as a backup host
    9.  
      Backup fails or becomes partially successful on GCP storage for objects with content encoded as GZIP.
    10.  
      Recovery for the original bucket recovery option starts, but the job fails with error 3601
    11.  
      Recovery Job does not start
    12.  
      Restore fails: "Error bpbrm (PID=3899) client restore EXIT STATUS 40: network connection broken"
    13.  
      Access tier property not restored after overwriting the existing object in the original location
    14.  
      Reduced accelerator optimization in Azure for OR query with multiple tags
    15.  
      Backup failed and shows a certificate error with Amazon S3 bucket names containing dots (.)
    16.  
      Azure backup jobs fail when space is provided in a tag query for either tag key name or value.
    17.  
      The Cloud object store account has encountered an error
    18.  
      The bucket is list empty during policy selection
    19.  
      Creating a second account on Cloudian fails by selecting an existing region
    20.  
      Restore failed with 2825 incomplete restore operation
    21.  
      Bucket listing of a cloud provider fails when adding a bucket in the Cloud objects tab
    22.  
      AIR import image restore fails on the target domain if the Cloud store account is not added to the target domain
    23.  
      Backup for Azure Data Lake fails when a back-level media server is used with backup host or storage server version 10.3
    24.  
      Backup fails partially in Azure Data Lake: "Error nbpem (pid=16018) backup of client
    25.  
      Recovery for Azure Data Lake fails: "This operation is not permitted as the path is too deep"
    26.  
      Empty directories are not backed up in Azure Data Lake
    27.  
      Recovery error: "Invalid alternate directory location. You must specify a string with length less than 1025 valid characters"
    28.  
      Recovery error: "Invalid parameter specified"
    29.  
      Restore fails: "Cannot perform the COSP operation, skipping the object: [/testdata/FxtZMidEdTK]"
    30.  
      Cloud store account creation fails with incorrect credentials
    31.  
      Discovery failures due to improper permissions
    32.  
      Restore failures due to object lock

Manage Cloud object store accounts

The Cloud object store tab lets you view, add, edit, and delete the Cloud object store accounts. You can also validate the credentials for a Cloud object store account from this tab.

To view Cloud object store accounts

  1. On the left, click Workloads > Cloud object store.
  2. On the Cloud object store account tab, the accounts that are available to you are displayed.

Manually discovering assets for protection

To discover assets manually

  1. On the left, click Workloads > Cloud object store.
  2. Select the row of the account for which you want to run discovery, and click Discover at the top. Or, click the ellipsis menu (three dots) in the row of the account, and click Discover.
Edit a Cloud object store account

You cannot update the provider, the selected service host, or the region on the Edit page.

To change the region, you may have to delete and recreate the Cloud object store account. You can do it in a maintenance window when the account is active and no job is associated with it. You can also update the region in Host properties > Cloud storage for the primary server.

To edit a Cloud object store account

  1. On the left, click Workloads > Cloud object store.
  2. Select the account that you want to edit. Then click Edit.

    See Adding Cloud object store accounts.

Validate credentials for a Cloud object store account

To validate credentials for a Cloud object store account

  1. On the left, click Workloads > Cloud object store.
  2. Select the account that you want to edit. Then click Validate.

    The result of the validation process is displayed in the same column.

Delete a cloud object store account

If you delete a Cloud object store account, NetBackup no longer protects any policies that are associated with this account. You can still recover existing backup images, using a different Cloud object store account. The backups of the policies that are associated with this Cloud object store account fail.

To delete a cloud object store account

  1. On the left, click Workloads > Cloud object store.
  2. Select the account that you want to edit. Then click Delete.
  3. Click Delete.