NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Deploying NetBackup for OpenStack
- Requirements
- NetBackup for OpenStack network considerations
- Existing endpoints in OpenStack
- OpenStack endpoints required by NetBackup for OpenStack
- Recommendation: Provide access to all OpenStack Endpoint types
- Backup target access required by NetBackup for OpenStack
- Example of a typical NetBackup for OpenStack network integration
- Other examples of NetBackup for OpenStack network integrations
- Preparing the installation
- Spinning up the NetBackup for OpenStack VM
- About NetBackup for OpenStack backup target types
- Installing NetBackup for OpenStack Components
- Installing on RHOSP
- Prepare for deployment
- Uploading the NetBackup for OpenStack puppet module
- Updating the overcloud roles data file to include NetBackup for OpenStack services
- Preparing the NetBackup for OpenStack container images
- Providing the environment details in nbos_env.yaml
- Deploying the overcloud with NetBackup OpenStack environment
- Verifying the deployment
- Additional Steps on NetBackup for OpenStack Appliance
- Troubleshooting for overcloud deployment failures
- Installing on Ansible OpenStack Ussuri
- Installing on Kolla Ussuri
- Changing the nova user ID on the NetBackup for OpenStack Nodes
- Copying the NetBackup for OpenStack deployment scripts
- Copying the NetBackup for OpenStack deployment scripts to Kolla-ansible deploy scripts
- Pushing NetBackup for OpenStack images to the local registry
- Editing globals.yml to set NetBackup for OpenStack parameters
- Enabling the NetBackup for OpenStack snapshot mount feature
- Pulling the NetBackup for OpenStack container images
- Deploying the NetBackup for OpenStack components
- Verifying the NetBackup for OpenStack deployment
- Installing on RHOSP
- Configuring NetBackup for OpenStack
- Post Installation Health-Check
- Uninstalling NetBackup for OpenStack
- Uninstalling from RHOSP
- Clean NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API service
- Clean NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover Service
- Clean NetBackup for OpenStack haproxy resources
- Clean NetBackup for OpenStack Keystone resources
- Clean NetBackup for OpenStack database resources
- Revert overcloud deploy command
- Revert back to original RHOSP Horizon container
- Destroy the NetBackup for OpenStack VM Cluster
- Uninstalling from Ansible OpenStack
- Uninstall NetBackup for OpenStack Services
- Destroy NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API container
- Clean openstack_user_config.yml
- Remove NetBackup for OpenStack haproxy settings in user_variables.yml
- Remove NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API inventory file
- Remove NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API service endpoints
- Delete NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API database and user
- Remove nbosdmapi rabbitmq user from rabbitmq container
- Clean haproxy
- Remove certificates from Compute nodes
- Destroy the NetBackup for OpenStack VM Cluster
- Uninstalling from Kolla Openstack
- Cleaning NetBackupOpenStack_datamover_api container
- Cleaning NetBackupOpenStack_datamover container
- Cleaning haproxy of NetBackupOpenStack Datamover API
- Cleaning Kolla Ansible deployment procedure
- Reverting to original Horizon container
- Cleaning Keystone resources
- Cleaning NetBackup for OpenStack database resources
- Destroy the NetBackup for OpenStack VM Cluster
- Uninstalling from RHOSP
- Install nbosjm CLI client
- Configuring NetBackup OpenStack Appliance
- Configuring NetBackup Master Server
- NetBackup for OpenStack policies
- Performing backups and restores of OpenStack
- About snapshots
- List of snapshots
- Creating a snapshot
- Snapshot overview
- Delete snapshots
- Cleaning up the volume snapshots
- Snapshot Cancel
- About restores
- List of Restores
- Restores overview
- Delete a Restore
- Cancel a Restore
- One-Click Restore
- Selective Restore
- In-place restore
- Required restore.json for CLI
- About file search
- Navigating to the file search tab in Horizon
- Configuring and starting a file search in Horizon
- Start the File Search and retrieve the results in Horizon
- Doing a CLI File Search
- About snapshot mount
- Creating a file recovery manager instance
- Mounting a snapshot
- Accessing the File Recovery Manager
- Identifying mounted snapshots
- Unmounting a snapshot
- About schedulers
- Disable a schedule
- Enable a schedule
- Modify a schedule
- About email notifications
- Requirements to activate email Notifications
- Activate/Deactivate the email Notifications
- Performing Backup Administration tasks
- NBOS Backup Admin Area
- Policy Attributes
- Policy Quotas
- Managing Trusts
- Policy import and migration
- Disaster Recovery
- Example runbook for disaster recovery using NFS
- Scenario
- Prerequisites for the disaster recovery process
- Disaster recovery of a single policy
- Copy the policy directories to the configured NFS Volume
- Make the Mount-Paths available
- Reassign the policy
- Add admin-user to required domains and projects
- Discover orphaned policies from NFS-Storage of Target Cloud
- List available projects on Target Cloud in the Target Domain
- List available users on the Target Cloud in the Target Project that have the right backup trustee role
- Reassign the policy to the target project
- Verify that the policy is available at the desired target_project
- Restore the policy
- Clean up
- Disaster recovery of a complete cloud
- Reconfigure the Target NetBackup for OpenStack installation
- Make the Mount-Paths available
- Reassign the policy
- Add admin-user to required domains and projects
- Discover orphaned policies from NFS-Storage of Target Cloud
- List available projects on Target Cloud in the Target Domain
- List available users on the Target Cloud in the Target Project that have the right backup trustee role
- Reassign the policy to the target project
- Verify that the policy is available at the desired target_project
- Restore the policy
- Reconfigure the Target NetBackup for OpenStack installation back to the original one
- Clean up
- Troubleshooting
- General Troubleshooting Tips
- Using the nbosjm CLI tool on the NetBackup for OpenStack Appliance
- Health check of NetBackup for OpenStack
- Important log files
- Troubleshooting NBOSDM container in offline state due to unavailable mount point
- About permission denied error when same NFS share path is used across multiple OpenStack distributions
- Index
Policy overview
View the information about the policy in the Policy overview.
To enter the policy overview inside Horizon do the following steps:
On the Horizon console, navigate to NBOS Backups > Policies.
Identify the policy to view.
Click the policy name to view the policy overview.
Details
The Policy Details tab provides you with the most important information about the policy:
Name
Description
Availability Zone
List of protected VMs including the information of qemu guest agent availability
The status of the qemu-guest-agent shows whether the necessary OpenStack configuration has been done for this VM to provide qemu guest agent integration. It does not check if the qemu guest agent is installed and configured on the VM.
You can navigate to the protected VM directly from the list of protected VMs.
Snapshots
The Snapshots tab shows the list of all available snapshots in the chosen policy.
From here it is possible to work with the snapshots, create snapshots on demand and start restores.
See About snapshots.
Policy Attributes
The Policy Attributes tab gives an overview of the current configured scheduler and retention policy. The following elements are shown:
Scheduler Enabled or Disabled
Start Date and Time
End Date and Time
RPO
Time until next Snapshot run
Retention Policy and Value
Full Backup Interval policy and value
File Search
The File Search tab provides access to the powerful search engine, which allows to find files and folders on snapshots without the need of a restore.
See About file search.
Misc.
The Miscellaneous tab shows the remaining metadata of the policy. The following information is provided:
Creation time
Last update time
Policy ID
Policy Type ID
Policy Attribute ID
Project ID
User ID
nbosjm policy-show <policy-id> [--verbose <verbose>]
<policy-id> ID/name of the policy to show.
--verbose Option to show additional information about the policy.