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
Supported upgrade path
Table: Snapshot Manager upgrade path
Upgrade from version | Upgrade to version |
|---|---|
9.1/9.1.0.1 | 10.0 |
8.3/9.0/9.0.0.1 | 9.1/9.1.0.1 upgraded to 10.0 |
9.1/9.1.0.1 | 10.0.0.1 upgraded to 10.1 |
Notes:
Direct upgrade from older versions to 10.1 is not supported. We need to first upgrade to 9.1 before upgrading to 10.1 for any upgrade path.
Upgrading Snapshot Manager across the OS versions is not supported. If you are using Snapshot Manager on a RHEL7.x host, then you can only migrate it to a RHEL 8.6 or 8.4 host. Then follow the upgrade paths mentioned in the above table for upgrading Snapshot Manager on a RHEL 8.6 or 8.4 host.
See Migrating and upgrading Snapshot Manager., for more information on migrating and upgrading Snapshot Manager on RHEL.
See Upgrade scenarios., for more information on upgrading NetBackup 8.3.x to NetBackup 10.1.