Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.1)
  1. About NetBackup cloud storage
    1.  
      New cloud features in NetBackup 8.1
    2.  
      About cloud storage features and functionality
    3.  
      About the catalog backup of cloud configuration files
    4.  
      About support limitations for NetBackup cloud storage
  2. About the cloud storage
    1.  
      About the cloud storage vendors for NetBackup
    2. About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type
      1.  
        Amazon S3 cloud storage vendors certified for NetBackup
      2.  
        Amazon S3 storage type requirements
      3.  
        Amazon S3 cloud storage provider options
      4.  
        Amazon S3 cloud storage options
      5.  
        Amazon S3 advanced server configuration options
      6.  
        Amazon S3 credentials broker details
      7.  
        About private clouds from Amazon S3-compatible cloud providers
      8.  
        About Amazon S3 storage classes
      9.  
        Amazon virtual private cloud support with NetBackup
      10. Protecting data in Amazon Glacier for long-term retention
        1.  
          Backing up data to Amazon Glacier
        2.  
          Restoring data from Amazon Glacier
      11.  
        Permissions required for Amazon IAM user
      12.  
        About NetBackup character restrictions for Amazon S3 cloud connector
    3. About EMC Atmos cloud storage API type
      1.  
        EMC Atmos cloud storage vendors certified for NetBackup
      2.  
        EMC Atmos storage type requirements
      3.  
        EMC Atmos cloud storage provider options
      4.  
        EMC Atmos advanced server configuration options
      5.  
        About private clouds from AT&T
    4. About Microsoft Azure cloud storage API type
      1.  
        Microsoft Azure cloud storage vendors certified for NetBackup
      2.  
        Microsoft Azure storage type requirements
      3.  
        Microsoft Azure cloud storage provider options
      4.  
        Microsoft Azure advanced server configuration options
    5. About OpenStack Swift cloud storage API type
      1.  
        OpenStack Swift cloud storage vendors certified for NetBackup
      2.  
        OpenStack Swift storage type requirements
      3.  
        OpenStack Swift cloud storage provider options
      4.  
        OpenStack Swift storage region options
      5.  
        OpenStack Swift add cloud storage configuration options
      6.  
        OpenStack Swift proxy settings
      7.  
        About Rackspace Cloud Files storage requirements
      8.  
        Rackspace storage server configuration options
      9.  
        About private clouds from Rackspace
  3. Configuring cloud storage in NetBackup
    1.  
      Before you begin to configure cloud storage in NetBackup
    2.  
      Configuring cloud storage in NetBackup
    3.  
      Cloud installation requirements
    4. Scalable Storage properties
      1.  
        Configuring advanced bandwidth throttling settings
      2.  
        Advanced bandwidth throttling settings
    5. Cloud Storage properties
      1.  
        Adding a cloud storage instance
      2.  
        Changing cloud storage host properties
      3.  
        Deleting a cloud storage host instance
    6. About the NetBackup CloudStore Service Container
      1.  
        NetBackup CloudStore Service Container security certificates
      2.  
        NetBackup CloudStore Service Container security modes
      3.  
        NetBackup cloudstore.conf configuration file
    7.  
      Deploying host name-based certificates
    8.  
      Deploying host ID-based certificates
    9.  
      About data compression for cloud backups
    10.  
      About data encryption for cloud storage
    11.  
      About key management for encryption of NetBackup cloud storage
    12.  
      About cloud storage servers
    13.  
      About object size for cloud storage
    14. About the NetBackup media servers for cloud storage
      1.  
        Using media server as NetBackup Cloud master host
    15. Configuring a storage server for cloud storage
      1.  
        KMS database encryption settings
      2.  
        Assigning a storage class to Amazon cloud storage
    16.  
      Changing cloud storage server properties
    17. NetBackup cloud storage server properties
      1.  
        NetBackup cloud storage server bandwidth throttling properties
      2.  
        NetBackup cloud storage server connection properties
      3.  
        NetBackup CloudCatalyst storage server properties
      4.  
        NetBackup cloud storage server encryption properties
    18.  
      About cloud storage disk pools
    19.  
      Configuring a disk pool for cloud storage
    20.  
      Saving a record of the KMS key names for NetBackup cloud storage encryption
    21.  
      Adding backup media servers to your cloud environment
    22. Configuring a storage unit for cloud storage
      1.  
        Cloud storage unit properties
      2.  
        Configure a favorable client-to-server ratio
      3.  
        Control backup traffic to the media servers
    23.  
      About NetBackup Accelerator and NetBackup Optimized Synthetic backups
    24.  
      Enabling NetBackup Accelerator with cloud storage
    25.  
      Enabling optimized synthetic backups with cloud storage
    26.  
      Creating a backup policy
    27. Changing cloud storage disk pool properties
      1.  
        Cloud storage disk pool properties
    28.  
      Managing Certification Authorities (CA) for NetBackup Cloud
  4. Monitoring and Reporting
    1.  
      About monitoring and reporting for cloud backups
    2.  
      Viewing cloud storage job details
    3.  
      Viewing the compression ratio
    4.  
      Viewing NetBackup cloud storage disk reports
    5.  
      Displaying KMS key information for cloud storage encryption
  5. Operational notes
    1.  
      NetBackup bpstsinfo command operational notes
    2.  
      Unable to configure additional media servers
    3.  
      Cloud configuration may fail if NetBackup Access Control is enabled
    4.  
      Deleting cloud storage server artifacts
  6. Troubleshooting
    1. About unified logging
      1.  
        About using the vxlogview command to view unified logs
      2.  
        Examples of using vxlogview to view unified logs
    2. About legacy logging
      1.  
        Creating NetBackup log file directories for cloud storage
    3.  
      NetBackup cloud storage log files
    4.  
      Enable libcurl logging
    5.  
      NetBackup Administration Console fails to open
    6. Troubleshooting cloud storage configuration issues
      1.  
        NetBackup Scalable Storage host properties unavailable
      2.  
        Connection to the NetBackup CloudStore Service Container fails
      3.  
        Cannot create a cloud storage disk pool
      4.  
        Cannot create a cloud storage
      5.  
        Data transfer to cloud storage server fails in the SSL mode
      6.  
        Amazon GovCloud cloud storage configuration fails in non-SSL mode
      7.  
        Data restore from the Google Nearline storage class may fail
      8.  
        Backups may fail for cloud storage configurations with Frankfurt region
      9.  
        Backups may fail for cloud storage configurations with the cloud compression option
      10.  
        Fetching storage regions fails with authentication version V2
      11.  
        nbcssc service does not start after installation in clustered environment
    7. Troubleshooting cloud storage operational issues
      1.  
        Cloud storage backups fail
      2.  
        Stopping and starting the NetBackup CloudStore Service Container
      3.  
        A restart of the nbcssc process reverts all cloudstore.conf settings
      4.  
        NetBackup CloudStore Service Container startup and shutdown troubleshooting

About the cloud storage vendors for NetBackup

NetBackup supports cloud storage based on the storage API type. All of the cloud vendors that NetBackup supports for cloud storage use one of the supported types. For more information about the storage API types and cloud vendors, see the following:

Cloud storage API types

Table: Supported cloud storage API types for NetBackup provides links to the topics that describe the requirements for each storage API type and for the cloud providers who use that storage API type.

Supported cloud vendors

Table: Alphabetical list of supported cloud vendors identifies the cloud vendors who are certified for NetBackup cloud storage and their storage API type. For configuration help, see the information about their storage API type.

Table: Alphabetical list of supported cloud vendors lists the cloud storage vendors who are certified for use with Veritas NetBackup. It also includes links to Veritas knowledge base articles that contain the most current configuration information for the NetBackup cloud storage vendors. Veritas organizes the configuration by storage API type not be vendor.

Vendors achieve certification by participating in the Veritas technology partners program. NetBackup can send backups to the storage that these vendors provide. Veritas may certify vendors between NetBackup releases. For the vendors that are certified between releases, you must download and install the following configuration and mappings packages:

You can find links to the packages for your release on the NetBackup master compatibility list landing page:

http://www.netbackup.com/compatibility

Table: Supported cloud storage API types for NetBackup identifies the cloud storage APIs that are certified for NetBackup cloud storage.

Table: Supported cloud storage API types for NetBackup

API type

More information

Amazon S3

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

EMC Atmos

See About EMC Atmos cloud storage API type.

Microsoft Azure

See About Microsoft Azure cloud storage API type.

OpenStack Swift

See About OpenStack Swift cloud storage API type.

Table: Alphabetical list of supported cloud vendors identifies the cloud vendors who are certified for NetBackup cloud storage. For configuration help, see the information about their storage API type.

Table: Alphabetical list of supported cloud vendors

Cloud vendor

Storage API type topic to consult for information

ACP Cloud Storage CS3

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

Amazon (S3)

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

Amazon GovCloud (S3)

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

AT&T (Atmos)

See About EMC Atmos cloud storage API type.

AT&T Cloud Storage (S3)

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

China Mobile Cloud Connector (S3)

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

CMCC Cloud Storage v5.x(S3)

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

Chunghwa Telecom hicloud S3 (S3)

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

Cloudian HyperStore (S3)

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

EMC ATMOS Private Cloud

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

EMC Elactic Cloud Storage

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

Fujitsu Eternus CD10000

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

FUJITSU Cloud Service K5

See About OpenStack Swift cloud storage API type.

Google Cloud Storage (S3)

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

HGST Storage (S3)

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) (S3)

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

IBM Softlayer

See About OpenStack Swift cloud storage API type.

IBM Cloud Object Storage

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

Iron Mountain Iron Cloud

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

Microsoft Azure

See About Microsoft Azure cloud storage API type.

Microsoft Azure Government

See About Microsoft Azure cloud storage API type.

NetApp AltaVault

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

NetApp StorageGRID

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

NooBaa

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

Oracle (Swift)

See About OpenStack Swift cloud storage API type.

Oracle OCI

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

Oracle Cloud Service

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

Deutsche Telekom OpenTelekom

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

Red Hat Ceph Storage

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

Rackspace

See About Rackspace Cloud Files storage requirements.

StorReduce (S3)

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

SwiftStack (S3)

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

SwiftStack (Swift)

See About OpenStack Swift cloud storage API type.

Scality RING Storage

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

SUSE Enterprise Storage

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

Telefonica (S3)

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.

Veritas Access

See About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type.