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
About protecting data in Amazon Glacier vault
To protect your data for long-term retention with Amazon vault lock policy, you can back up the data to a vault in Amazon Glacier using NetBackup.
When you create a storage class using NetBackup, you specify a vault name and a region in which you want to create the vault.
You can use the Amazon vault lock policy to enforce compliance control on the vault or to make the vault a Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) device. See the Amazon documentation for more information.
To configure a cloud storage server for GLACIER_VAULT storage class
- Configure the Amazon GLACIER vault cloud storage server.
See Configuring a storage server for cloud storage.
Note:
Each storage server is associated with only one region.
- Create a disk pool using the Amazon bucket for GLACIER storage.
See Configuring a disk pool for cloud storage.
Note:
If you cannot see the desired vault, it means either the vault does not have an S3 bucket in the same region as the vault region or the vault does not exist in the region corresponding to the storage server for which you are creating the disk pool.
- Use the Amazon console to create a vault lock policy. See the Amazon documentation for more information.
- Create a backup policy.
When you configure a storage server to backup data to a vault in Amazon Glacier, consider the following:
If you have configured immutable vault lock policy to deny the deletion of archives, Amazon Glacier vault does not allow deletion of archives till the archives are unlocked for deletion. Hence, the retention period configured for a backup policy must be greater than the vault lock period by at least two weeks or the maximum time taken to backup or duplicate data to GLACIER_VAULT with retries in your environment. Else, the image cleanup job on image expiry will fail. See Handling image cleanup failures for Amazon Glacier vault.
Veritas recommends you use a vault as a secondary target for backing up data.
If you plan to use the vault lock policy, ensure you create a vault for each retention level you want to use for the vault.
Use compression and incremental backups to reduce the size of the data stored per backup.
Select True Image Recovery option wherever possible to reduce time and cost for image imports.
To retrieve data sent to Glacier, there is an inherent time delay of around four hours per fragment of the backup image. For phase 2 of image imports, this time delay is prevalent for image(s) in the Glacier storage. However, if you enable in the policy, time spent for phase 2 imports reduces drastically from four hours to a few minutes per fragment. Phase 1 imports are faster, irrespective of whether is enabled or not for the policy.
See the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I to know more about supported workloads and file systems for .
See the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I to know more about the phases during image imports.
Consider the following limitations:
NetBackup Accelerator feature is not supported for policies of the storage units that are created for GLACIER_VAULT. Do not select the check box.
with is not supported.
Glacier endpoint for the Amazon GovCloud cloud provider (that is ) supports only secure mode of communication using the NetBackup storage class. Therefore, if you disable the option while you configure the Amazon GovCloud cloud storage with storage class, the configuration fails.
You must have the following permissions:
glacier:ListVaults
glacier:CreateVault
glacier:DescribeVault
glacier:UploadArchive
glacier:DeleteArchive
glacier:ListJobs
glacier:Describejob
glacier:InitiateJob
glacier:GetJobOutput
Also, ensure you have the required S3 related IAM USER permissions.
For issues related to permissions, See Troubleshooting failures due to missing Amazon IAM permissions.