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
Configuring the NetBackup services for a VMware backup that protects SQL Server
NetBackup uses the NetBackup Client Service and the NetBackup Legacy Network Service to access the SQL Server when it performs VMware backups and restores. The logon account for the NetBackup services must meet the following requirements:
You must use an account other the Local System account as the logon account. Both services must use the same logon account. To change the logon account, you must have administrator group privileges.
For VMware backups with Replication Director, the account has access to the CIFS shares on the NetApp disk array.
The account has the fixed server role "sysadmin". You can use a domain account, a member of BUILTIN\Administrators, or another account that has this role.
If you choose to truncate logs, ensure that the account that runs the Microsoft SQL Server Service has full permissions for the NetBackup Legacy Network Service
temp
directory.This directory is
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp
. User is the account that runs the NetBackup Legacy Network Service.
To configure the NetBackup services for a VMware backup that protects SQL Server
- Log on to the Windows host with the account that necessary role and privileges.
- If the SQL Server host and instance use standard or mixed security, perform the following steps:
Open the NetBackup MS SQL Client.
Select File > Set SQL Server connection properties.
Provide the SQL Server Userid and Password, click Apply > Close.
- In the Windows Services application, open the NetBackup Client Service.
- Provide the name of the logon account and click OK.
The account must include the domain name, followed by the user account, domain_name\account. For example, recovery\netbackup.
- Open the NetBackup Legacy Network Service service.
- Configure the same logon account for this service as you did for the NetBackup Client Service.
- Stop and start the services.
- Configure the services for each host that you use to browse for backups and perform restores.