NetBackup™ Web UI Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (9.1)
  1. Introducing the NetBackup web user interface
    1.  
      About the NetBackup web UI
    2.  
      Terminology
    3.  
      Sign in to the NetBackup web UI
    4.  
      Sign out of the NetBackup web UI
  2. About NetBackup for SQL Server
    1.  
      Overview of NetBackup for SQL Server
  3. Installation and host configuration
    1.  
      Planning the installation of NetBackup for SQL Server
    2. Configuring SQL Server hosts and user permissions
      1.  
        Installing the Veritas VSS provider for vSphere
    3.  
      Configuring the NetBackup services for SQL Server backups and restores
    4.  
      Configure local security privileges for SQL Server
  4. Monitoring NetBackup
    1.  
      The NetBackup dashboard
    2.  
      Monitoring jobs
    3.  
      Filter jobs in the job list
  5. Managing SQL Server discovery and credentials
    1. About discovery of SQL Server objects
      1.  
        Discover advanced or basic availability groups on demand
      2.  
        Discover databases on demand
      3.  
        Discover read-scale availability groups
    2.  
      Browse SQL Server assets
    3.  
      About SQL Server credentials
    4.  
      Add credentials to SQL Server instances or replicas
    5.  
      Manage SQL Server credentials
    6.  
      Remove SQL Server instances
    7.  
      Manually add a SQL Server instance
  6. Managing protection plans for SQL Server
    1.  
      About protecting SQL Server availability groups
    2. Create a protection plan to protect SQL Server assets
      1.  
        Schedules and retention
      2.  
        Performance tuning and configuration options
      3.  
        Using copy-only snapshot backups to affect how differentials are based
      4.  
        Snapshot methods
    3.  
      Protect a SQL Server availability group that crosses NetBackup domains
  7. Protecting SQL Server
    1.  
      Add SQL Server assets to a protection plan
    2.  
      Edit protection settings for a Microsoft SQL Server asset
    3.  
      View the protection status of databases, instances, or availability groups
    4.  
      Remove protection from SQL Server assets
  8. Restoring SQL Server
    1.  
      Requirements for restores of SQL Server
    2.  
      Perform a complete database recovery
    3.  
      Recover a single recovery point
    4.  
      Options for SQL Server restores
    5.  
      Restore a database (non-administrator users)
    6.  
      Select a different backup copy for recovery
    7.  
      Restore a SQL Server availability database to a secondary replica
    8.  
      Restore a SQL Server availability database to the primary and the secondary replicas
  9. Using instant access with SQL Server
    1. Prerequisites when you configure an instant access SQL Server database
      1.  
        Hardware configuration requirement of instant access
    2.  
      Things to consider before you configure an instant access database
    3.  
      Configure Samba users for SQL Server instant access
    4.  
      Configure an instant access database
    5.  
      View the livemount details of an instant access database
    6.  
      Delete an instant access database
    7.  
      Options for NetBackup for SQL Server instant access
    8.  
      NetBackup for SQL Server terms
    9.  
      Frequently asked questions
  10. Protecting SQL Server with VMware backups
    1.  
      About protecting an application database with VMware backups
    2. Create a protection plan to protect SQL Server data with a VMware backup
      1.  
        Backup options and Advanced options
      2.  
        Exclude disks from backups
      3.  
        Snapshot retry options
    3.  
      Protect SQL Server data with a VMware backup
    4.  
      Restore SQL Server databases from a VMware backup
  11. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Troubleshooting credential validation
    2.  
      Troubleshooting VMware backups and restores of SQL Server
    3.  
      SQL Server log truncation failure during VMware backups of SQL Server

Troubleshooting VMware backups and restores of SQL Server

Note the following when you perform a VMware backup that protects an application:

  • The Application State Capture (ASC) job contacts the NetBackup client on the guest virtual machine and catalogs the application data for recovery.

  • One ASC job is created per VM, regardless of which applications are selected in policy.

  • ASC messages are filtered to the ASC job details in the Activity Monitor.

  • Failure results in the discovery job or parent job exiting with status 1.

  • If you enable recovery for a particular application but that application does not exist on the VM, the ASC job returns Status 0.

  • bpfis is run and simulates a VSS snapshot backup. This simulation is required to gain logical information of the application.

Table: Issues with using a VMware policy to protect SQL Server

Issue

Explanation

A database backup fails.

Databases are cataloged and protected only if they exist in a configuration that is supported for VMware backups. The following disks are not supported: raw device mapping (RDMs), Virtual Machine Disk (vmdk) volumes that are marked as independent, virtual hard disks (VHDs), RAID volumes, ReFS file systems, or an excluded Windows boot disk.

NetBackup is installed on an excluded Windows boot disk. The ASC job detects this type of disk and treats it like an independent disk. Do not select the Exclude boot disk option if NetBackup is installed on the boot drive (typically C:).

ASC job produces a status 1 (partially successful).

You selected databases for backup that exist on both supported and on unsupported disks. See "A database backup fails" for unsupported disk information.

Full-text catalog files exist on the mounted folders. The databases are not cataloged.

The Application State Capture (ASC) job fails and the databases are not protected.

When the ASC job fails, the VMware snapshot or backup continues. Application-specific data cannot be restored.

When you query the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), it may show that the database was backed up. In this case, though the database was skipped, the snapshot was still successful.

You disabled the Virtual Machine quiesce option.

Database objects are on a VHD disk. No objects in the backup are not cataloged, including those that do not exist on the VHD.

You excluded any data disks from the VMware policy, on the Exclude Disks tab. Be sure that any disks that you exclude do not contain database data.

The VMware disk layout has changed since the last discovery. In this situation, you must force NetBackup to rediscover virtual machines by lowering the value of the Reuse VM selection query results for option. See the NetBackup for VMware Administrator's Guide.

You cannot use a VMware incremental policy to protect SQL Server. However, the VMware backup job is successful.

 

You can recover the entire virtual machine from the backup, but you cannot recover the databases individually.

You did not select Microsoft SQL Server, which allows recovery of the databases from the virtual machine backups