NetBackup™ Release Notes

NetBackup 10.1 includes state-of-art features for the protection of MySQL. NetBackup 10.1 provides following enterprise-level capabilities to protect MySQL using the NetBackup web UI:

• Integration with NetBackup web UI:

  MySQL features are integrated with NetBackup web UI to provide ability to configure, protect, recover, and monitor MySQL resources from a web browser.

• Role Base Access Control (RBAC):

  Let's the administrator configure user access and delegate NetBackup tasks such as MySQL Asset management, Credentials access, workload protection.

• Credential Management:

  MySQL credentials are added in the NetBackup Credential Management database as named credentials. The owner can share named credentials with other users or administrators for reuse without revealing actual credentials.

• Automatic Asset Discovery:

  MySQL Instances are auto discovered and added in NetBackup asset. NetBackup runs automatic resource-discovery process and adds all databases in the NetBackup asset. The resource discovery process runs at a scheduled interval which is configurable. This option ensures that any newly added databases are included in the NetBackup asset.

• Backup Now:

  Lets you perform ad hoc backup outside the backup schedule.

• Supported backup methods:

  Snapshot (LVM/VSS) and mysqldump are supported for Instance backup. Databases are protected using the mysqldump method.

• Incremental backup

  Incremental backup (bin log) is supported only for instance-level protection.

• Restore options using the NetBackup web UI recovery wizard:

  • Instance restores.

    Lets you restore the entire MySQL Instance to the same or a different MySQL.

  • Database restore.

    Lets you restore the entire MySQL Database to the same or a different MySQL Instance.

• NetBackup APIs.

  You can also use NetBackup APIs for all these new features.