Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide
- Introducing NetBackup for SQL Server
- Installing NetBackup for SQL Server
- Managing SQL Server objects for use with SQL Server Intelligent Policies
- About autodiscovery of SQL Server objects
- About registering SQL Server instances and availability group replicas
- Registering instances or availability replicas with an instance group
- Configuring SQL Server backups with SQL Server Intelligent Policy
- Configuring NetBackup for SQL Server
- Performing restores of SQL Server
- Redirecting a SQL Server database to a different host
- Restoring multistreamed SQL Server backups
- Protecting SQL Server data with VMware backups
- About protecting SQL Server data with VMware backups
- Using NetBackup for SQL Server with Snapshot Client
- Using copy-only snapshot backups to affect how differentials are based
- About SQL Server agent grouped backups (legacy SQL Server policies)
- Protecting SQL Server availability groups
- Protecting SQL Server availability groups with intelligent policies
- Protecting SQL Server availibility groups with legacy policies
- About protecting the preferred replica in a SQL Server availability group (legacy backup policies)
- About protecting a specific node in a SQL Server availability group (legacy backup policies)
- About protecting the preferred replica in a SQL Server availability group (legacy backup policies)
- Protecting SQL Server in a cluster environment
- Configuring backups with legacy SQL Server policies using clients and batch files
- About using batch files with NetBackup for SQL Server
- About schedule properties
- Performing user-directed backups of SQL Server databases
- Performing user-directed backups of read-only filegroups
- Using NetBackup for SQL Server with multiple NICs
- Protecting SQL Server a log-shipping configuration
- SQL Server backups and restores in an SAP environment (legacy SQL Server policies)
- About SQL Server backups and restores in an SAP environment
- Backup and recovery concepts
- Overview of SQL Server backup and recovery concepts
- About recovery factors for SQL Server
- Troubleshooting
- About debug logging for SQL Server troubleshooting
- Disaster recovery of a SQL Server
- Appendix A. Sample batch files
- About sample backup batch files for legacy SQL Server policies
- About sample restore batch files
- About sample backup batch files for legacy SQL Server policies
- Appendix B. Multiplexed backups
- Appendix C. Register authorized locations
About protecting the preferred or primary replica in a SQL Server availability group
You can use a SQL Server Intelligent Policy to protect the preferred or primary replica in a SQL Server availability group. Note the following before you configure the policy:
When you protect the preferred replica, NetBackup honors your SQL Server backup preferences. These preferences include the preferred replica, backup priority, and excluded replicas. NetBackup backs up the preferred replica, as determined by SQL Server.
NetBackup can only fully protect the availability group environment if each replica on which backups occur is registered in the Applications utility.
Note that NetBackup runs a backup job on each replica in the availability group. On replicas which are not the backup source, the job skips the backup.
Review the information on support and limitations for availability groups.
See About using NetBackup to protect SQL Server availability groups.
Review the prerequisites for protecting the availability group.
See Prerequisites for protecting SQL Server availability groups.