NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (10.3.0.1, 10.3)
  1. Managing and protecting cloud assets
    1.  
      About protecting cloud assets
    2.  
      Limitations and considerations
    3. Configure Snapshot Manager in NetBackup
      1.  
        Add a Snapshot Manager
      2. Add a cloud provider for a Snapshot Manager
        1.  
          IAM Role for AWS Configuration
      3.  
        Associate media servers with a Snapshot Manager
      4.  
        Discover assets on Snapshot Manager
      5.  
        Enable or disable a Snapshot Manager
      6.  
        (Optional) Add the Snapshot Manager extension
    4. Managing intelligent cloud groups
      1.  
        Create an intelligent cloud group
      2.  
        Delete an intelligent cloud group
    5. Protecting cloud assets or intelligent cloud groups
      1.  
        Customize or edit protection for cloud assets or intelligent groups
      2.  
        Remove protection from cloud assets or intelligent groups
    6.  
      Cloud asset cleanup
    7.  
      Cloud asset filtering
    8.  
      AWS and Azure government cloud support
    9. About protecting Microsoft Azure resources using resource groups
      1.  
        Before you begin
      2.  
        Limitations and considerations
      3. About resource group configurations and outcome
        1.  
          Examples of resource group configurations
      4.  
        Troubleshoot resource group permissions
    10. About the NetBackup Accelerator for cloud workloads
      1.  
        How the NetBackup Accelerator works with virtual machines
      2.  
        Accelerator forced rescan for virtual machines (schedule attribute)
      3.  
        Accelerator backups and the NetBackup catalog
      4.  
        Accelerator messages in the backup job details log
    11.  
      Configuring backup schedule for cloud workloads
    12.  
      Backup options for cloud workloads
    13.  
      Snapshot replication
    14.  
      Configure AWS snapshot replication
    15.  
      Using AWS snapshot replication
    16.  
      Support matrix for account replication
    17.  
      Protect applications in-cloud with application consistent snapshots
    18. Protecting PaaS assets
      1.  
        Prerequisites for protecting PaaS assets
      2. Installing the native client utilities
        1.  
          Installing the MySQL client utility
        2.  
          Installing the sqlpackage client utility
        3.  
          Installing PostgresSQL client utility
        4.  
          Installing MongoDB client utility
        5.  
          Installing the Amazon RDS for Oracle client utility
      3.  
        Configuring the storage server for instant access
      4. Configuring storage for different deployments
        1.  
          For MSDP cloud deployments
        2.  
          For Kubernetes deployments
        3.  
          For VM-based BYO deployments
      5.  
        About incremental backup for PaaS workloads
      6.  
        Limitations and considerations
      7.  
        Discovering PaaS assets
      8.  
        Viewing PaaS assets
      9.  
        Managing PaaS credentials
      10.  
        View the credential name that is applied to a database
      11. Add credentials to a database
        1.  
          Creating an IAM database username
        2.  
          Configuring permissions for database user
        3.  
          Creating a system or user managed identity username
      12.  
        Add protection to PaaS assets
      13.  
        Perform backup now
  2. Recovering cloud assets
    1.  
      Recovering cloud assets
    2.  
      Perform rollback recovery of cloud assets
    3. Recovering PaaS assets
      1.  
        Recovering non-RDS PaaS assets
      2.  
        Recovering RDS-based PaaS asset
      3.  
        Recovering Azure protected assets
      4.  
        Recovering duplicate images from AdvancedDisk
  3. Performing granular restore
    1.  
      About granular restore
    2.  
      Supported environment list
    3.  
      List of supported file systems
    4.  
      Before you begin
    5.  
      Limitations and considerations
    6.  
      Restoring files and folders from cloud virtual machines
    7.  
      Restoring volumes on cloud virtual machines
    8.  
      Performing steps after volume restore containing LVM
    9.  
      Troubleshooting
  4. Troubleshooting protection and recovery of cloud assets
    1.  
      Troubleshoot cloud workload protection issues
    2. Troubleshoot PaaS workload protection and recovery issues
      1.  
        Troubleshooting Amazon Redshift issues

Prerequisites for protecting PaaS assets

NetBackup lets you discover, protect, and restore PaaS assets across different cloud platforms for a variety of assets. This section details the supported platforms and databases.

Supported cloud providers

NetBackup enables you to protect PaaS assets with the following cloud providers:

  • Microsoft Azure

  • AWS

  • GCP

Supported databases for different providers

The following table lists the supported databases for each cloud provider.

Table: Supported databases by PaaS

Providers

Supported databases

Microsoft Azure

PostgreSQL, SQL Managed Instance, SQL, MariaDB, Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, and MySQL.

The following components are not supported:

Azure SQL - Elastic pool

Azure SQL Managed Instance - Azure Arc

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

Azure PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus) server group and Azure Arc enabled PostgreSQL Hyperscale

AWS

RDS SQL, RDS PostgreSQL, RDS MySQL, RDS MariaDB, RDS Aurora MySQL, RDS Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS for Oracle, Amazon Redshift, and DynamoDB.

GCP

Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL for SQL Server, and Cloud SQL for MySQL

Supported platforms

This section details the supported platforms for primary and media servers.

Table: Supported platforms for PaaS

NetBackup server

Supported platform

Primary

RHEL, SUSE, and Windows

Media

RHEL

Storage server

Universal share on underlying MSDP block storage or MSDP-Cloud storage STU

Required cloud provider permissions

The credential that you use to add the cloud providers must have all the required permissions and privileges assigned as mentioned in the NetBackup Snapshot Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide.

Supported ports

Here are the supported ports for different PaaS databases.

Table: Supported ports for PaaS

Database PaaS workload

Supported ports

Azure SQL Server

1433

Azure SQL Managed Instance

1433

Azure MySQL

3306

Azure PostgreSQL

5432

Azure MariaDB

3306

GCP PostgreSQL

5432

GCP MySQL

3306

AWS DynamoDB

NA

AWS RDS PostgreSQL

5432

AWS RDS MySQL

3306

AWS MariaDB

3306

AWS RDS AuroraDB Postgres

5432

AWS RDS AuroraDB MySQL

3306

AWS RDS SQL server

1433

Amazon RDS for Oracle

1521

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

443

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

10255

GCP SQL Server port

1433

Amazon Redshift

5439

Enabling binary logging for MySQL databases