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
NetBackup server and client requirements
Verify that the following requirements are met for the NetBackup server:
The NetBackup server software is installed and operational on the NetBackup server.
See the NetBackup Installation Guide.
Every NetBackup server includes the NetBackup client software by default. Therefore, you can use NetBackup for SQL Server on a NetBackup server or client (if NetBackup for SQL Server is supported on that platform).
Make sure that you configure any backup media that the storage unit uses. The number of media volumes that are required depends on several things:
The devices that are used and storage capacity of the media
The sizes of the databases that you want to back up
The amount of data that you want to archive
The size of your backups
The frequency of backups or archives
The length of retention of the backup images
Verify that the following requirements are met for the NetBackup clients:
The NetBackup client software is installed on the computer that has the databases you want to back up.
If the database is clustered, you must use the same version of NetBackup on each node in the cluster.
To use the new features that are included in NetBackup for SQL Server in NetBackup 8.2, you must upgrade your NetBackup for SQL Server clients to NetBackup 8.2. The NetBackup media server must use the same version as the NetBackup for SQL Server client or a higher version than the client.