Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide
- About NetBackup cloud storage
- About the cloud storage
- About the cloud storage vendors for NetBackup
- About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type
- Amazon S3 cloud storage vendors certified for NetBackup
- Amazon S3 storage type requirements
- Amazon S3 cloud storage provider options
- Amazon S3 cloud storage options
- Amazon S3 advanced server configuration options
- Amazon S3 credentials broker details
- About private clouds from Amazon S3-compatible cloud providers
- About Amazon S3 storage classes
- Amazon virtual private cloud support with NetBackup
- About protecting data in Amazon for long-term retention
- Protecting data using Amazon's cloud tiering
- About NetBackup character restrictions for Amazon S3 cloud connector
- About Microsoft Azure cloud storage API type
- About OpenStack Swift cloud storage API type
- Configuring cloud storage in NetBackup
- Before you begin to configure cloud storage in NetBackup
- Configuring cloud storage in NetBackup
- Cloud installation requirements
- Scalable Storage properties
- Cloud Storage properties
- About the NetBackup CloudStore Service Container
- Deploying host name-based certificates
- Deploying host ID-based certificates
- About data compression for cloud backups
- About data encryption for cloud storage
- About key management for encryption of NetBackup cloud storage
- About cloud storage servers
- About object size for cloud storage
- About the NetBackup media servers for cloud storage
- Configuring a storage server for cloud storage
- Changing cloud storage server properties
- NetBackup cloud storage server properties
- About cloud storage disk pools
- Configuring a disk pool for cloud storage
- Saving a record of the KMS key names for NetBackup cloud storage encryption
- Adding backup media servers to your cloud environment
- Configuring a storage unit for cloud storage
- About NetBackup Accelerator and NetBackup Optimized Synthetic backups
- Enabling NetBackup Accelerator with cloud storage
- Enabling optimized synthetic backups with cloud storage
- Creating a backup policy
- Changing cloud storage disk pool properties
- Managing Certification Authorities (CA) for NetBackup Cloud
- Monitoring and Reporting
- Operational notes
- Troubleshooting
- About unified logging
- About legacy logging
- NetBackup cloud storage log files
- Enable libcurl logging
- NetBackup Administration Console fails to open
- Troubleshooting cloud storage configuration issues
- NetBackup Scalable Storage host properties unavailable
- Connection to the NetBackup CloudStore Service Container fails
- Cannot create a cloud storage disk pool
- Cannot create a cloud storage
- Data transfer to cloud storage server fails in the SSL mode
- Amazon GovCloud cloud storage configuration fails in non-SSL mode
- Data restore from the Google Nearline storage class may fail
- Backups may fail for cloud storage configurations with Frankfurt region
- Backups may fail for cloud storage configurations with the cloud compression option
- Fetching storage regions fails with authentication version V2
- Troubleshooting cloud storage operational issues
- Cloud storage backups fail
- Stopping and starting the NetBackup CloudStore Service Container
- A restart of the nbcssc (on legacy media servers), nbwmc, and nbsl processes reverts all cloudstore.conf settings
- NetBackup CloudStore Service Container startup and shutdown troubleshooting
- bptm process takes time to terminate after cancelling GLACIER restore job
- Handling image cleanup failures for Amazon Glacier vault
- Cleaning up orphaned archives manually
- Restoring from Amazon Glacier vault spans more than 24 hours for single fragment
- Restoring from GLACIER_VAULT takes more than 24 hours for Oracle databases
- Troubleshooting failures due to missing Amazon IAM permissions
- Restore job fails if the restore job start time overlaps with the backup job end time
Using media server as NetBackup Cloud master host
These steps are applicable to media server versions up to 8.1.2 only.
You must perform this procedure for all the operating systems those are not supported by NetBackup cloud.
See the NetBackup hardware compatibility list for your release available through the following URL:
http://www.netbackup.com/compatibility
For disaster recovery, you must take a manual backup of the following files from the media server that you have configured as NetBackup cloud master host:
CloudProvider.xmlCloudInstance.xml
To use media server as NetBackup cloud master host
- Identify one of the NetBackup cloud media servers as a cloud master host.
Choose a media server that has same NetBackup master server version. Do not use a media server with different version.
Note:
The media server does not hold the master copy of the
CloudProvider.xmlfile which all the media servers require while configuring the cloud storage and for running operations such as backup, restore, and so on. - Run the following commands on all the NetBackup cloud media servers including the one that is selected as the cloud master host:
nbcssc -t -a NetBackup
nbcssc -s -a NetBackup -m cloud_master_host -f
For information on the command, see Veritas NetBackup Commands Reference Guide.
- Ensure that the values of CSSC_PORT and CSSC_IS_SECURE as mentioned in
cloudstore.conffile from cloud master host are copied as CSSC_MASTER_PORT and CSSC_MASTER_IS_SECURE incloudstore.conffile on all other NetBackup cloud media servers.
After you select a cloud master host, do not change the name again to point to another media server. If you need to do so, contact Veritas Technical Support.
For a cloud storage server that uses proxy server, you must update the proxy credentials.
To perform the task using the NetBackup Administrators Console, see See Changing cloud storage host properties.
To perform the task using the commands, run the following:
csconfig cldinstance -us -in instance_name -sts storage_server_name -pxtype proxy_type -pxhost proxy_host -pxport proxy_port -pxautth_type proxy_auth_type -pxtunnel proxytunnel_usage
For information on the command, see Veritas NetBackup Commands Reference Guide.
This is applicable for a NetBackup environment where a master server is running on an unsupported operating system such as Solaris x86 or Windows Server 2008, and the media server is promoted as a Cloud Master host.
After upgrading the master server, if you plan to perform a rolling upgrade on the media server, then there are some additional post-upgrade steps that must be performed to ensure that the cloud storage server works seamlessly after the media server upgrade is completed.
Refer to the following technote for more details: