NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager Install and Upgrade Guide
- Introduction
- Section I. NetBackup Snapshot Manager installation and configuration
- Preparing for NetBackup Snapshot Manager installation
- Meeting system requirements
- Snapshot Manager host sizing recommendations
- Snapshot Manager extension sizing recommendations
- Creating an instance or preparing the host to install Snapshot Manager
- Installing container platform (Docker, Podman)
- Creating and mounting a volume to store Snapshot Manager data
- Verifying that specific ports are open on the instance or physical host
- Preparing Snapshot Manager for backup from snapshot jobs
- Deploying NetBackup Snapshot Manager using container images
- Deploying NetBackup Snapshot Manager extensions
- Before you begin installing Snapshot Manager extensions
- Downloading the Snapshot Manager extension
- Installing the Snapshot Manager extension on a VM
- Installing the Snapshot Manager extension on a managed Kubernetes cluster (AKS) in Azure
- Installing the Snapshot Manager extension on a managed Kubernetes cluster (EKS) in AWS
- Installing the Snapshot Manager extension on a managed Kubernetes cluster (GKE) in GCP
- Install extension using the Kustomize and CR YAMLs
- Managing the extensions
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager cloud plug-ins
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager application agents and plug-ins
- About the installation and configuration process
- Installing and configuring Snapshot Manager agent
- Configuring the Snapshot Manager application plug-in
- Configuring an application plug-in
- Microsoft SQL plug-in
- Oracle plug-in
- NetBackup protection plan
- Configuring VSS to store shadow copies on the originating drive
- Additional steps required after restoring an AWS RDS database instance
- Protecting assets with NetBackup Snapshot Manager's agentless feature
- Volume Encryption in NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager security
- Preparing for NetBackup Snapshot Manager installation
- Section II. NetBackup Snapshot Manager maintenance
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager logging
- Upgrading NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Uninstalling NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Preparing to uninstall Snapshot Manager
- Backing up Snapshot Manager
- Unconfiguring Snapshot Manager plug-ins
- Unconfiguring Snapshot Manager agents
- Removing the Snapshot Manager agents
- Removing Snapshot Manager from a standalone Docker host environment
- Removing Snapshot Manager extensions - VM-based or managed Kubernetes cluster-based
- Restoring Snapshot Manager
- Troubleshooting NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Troubleshooting Snapshot Manager
- SQL snapshot or restore and granular restore operations fail if the Windows instance loses connectivity with the Snapshot Manager host
- Disk-level snapshot restore fails if the original disk is detached from the instance
- Discovery is not working even after assigning system managed identity to the control node pool
- Performance issue with GCP backup from snapshot
- Post migration on host agents fail with an error message
- File restore job fails with an error message
About the Snapshot Manager fluentd configuration file
Fluentd uses a configuration file that defines the source of the log messages, the set of rules and filters to use for selecting the logs, and the target destinations for delivering those log messages.
The fluentd daemon running on the Snapshot Manager host is responsible for sending the Snapshot Manager logs to various destinations. These target destinations, along with the other details such as input data sources and required fluentd parameters are defined in the plug-in configuration file. For Snapshot Manager, these plug-in configurations are stored in a fluentd configuration file that is located at /cloudpoint/fluent/fluent.conf on the Snapshot Manager host. The fluentd daemon reads the output plug-in definition from this configuration file to determine where to send the Snapshot Manager log messages.
The following output plug-in definition is added to the configuration file by default:
STDOUT: This is used to send the Snapshot Manager log messages to /cloudpoint/logs/flexsnap.log.
The plug-in is defined as follows:
# Send to fluentd docker logs <store> @type stdout </store>
Additionally, the Snapshot Manager fluentd configuration file includes plug-in definitions for the following destinations:
MongoDB
Splunk
ElasticSearch
These plug-in definitions are provided as a template and are commented out in the file. To configure an actual MongoDB, Splunk, or ElasticSearch target, you can uncomment these definitions and replace the parameter values as required.