Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide
- Introducing NetBackup for SQL Server
- Installation and host configuration
- Host configuration and job settings
- Managing SQL Server objects for use with SQL Server Intelligent Policies
- About discovery of SQL Server objects
- About registering SQL Server instances and availability replicas
- Registering instances or availability replicas with an instance group
- Configuring backups with SQL Server Intelligent Policy
- About tuning parameters for SQL Server backups
- Performing restores of SQL Server
- Redirecting a SQL Server database to a different host
- Protecting SQL Server data with VMware backups
- About protecting an application database with VMware backups
- Configuring backups 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
- Performance and troubleshooting
- About debug logging for SQL Server troubleshooting
- About disaster recovery of SQL Server
- Appendix A. Other configurations
- About SQL Server backups and restores in an SAP environment
- Appendix B. Register authorized locations
Creating a SQL Server Intelligent Policy
Before you configure an intelligent policy ensure that you have:
Registered the SQL Server instances that you want to protect.
See Registering a SQL Server instance or availability replica.
For SQL Server clusters or availability groups, you configured the mappings for distributed application restores. Also, you reviewed the auto-discovered mappings for the hosts in your environment.
See Configuring mappings for restores of a distributed applications, clusters, or virtual machines .
See Reviewing the auto-discovered mappings in Host Management.
To create a NetBackup for SQL Server Intelligent Policy
- Log on to the master server as administrator (Windows) or root (UNIX).
- Start the NetBackup Administration Console.
- Expand NetBackup Management and select Policies.
- Select Actions > New > Policy.
- Type a unique name for the new policy and click OK.
- In the Policy type list, select MS-SQL-Server.
- Complete the entries on the Attributes tab.
Add other policy information as follows:
Choose to protect instances or instance groups.
If you choose the instances option, you can select either individual instances or databases.
Add schedules.
(Optional) Select the specific filegroups or files that you want to back up. By default, NetBackup backs up an entire database.
(Optional) Make changes to any tuning parameters.
- When you have completed the policy configuration, click OK.
In the Applications utility, the properties for an instance, replica, or instance group indicate the name of any Intelligent Policies that protect those objects.