Veritas NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Deploying NetBackup for OpenStack
- Requirements
- NetBackup for OpenStack network considerations
- Existing endpoints in OpenStack
- OpenStack endpoints required by NetBackup for OpenStack
- Recommendation: Provide access to all OpenStack Endpoint types
- Backup target access required by NetBackup for OpenStack
- Example of a typical NetBackup for OpenStack network integration
- Other examples of NetBackup for OpenStack network integrations
- Preparing the installation
- Spinning up the NetBackup for OpenStack VM
- Installing NetBackup for OpenStack Components
- Installing on RHOSP
- 1. Prepare for deployment
- 2] Upload NetBackup for OpenStack puppet module
- 3] Update overcloud roles data file to include NetBackup for OpenStack services
- 4] Prepare NetBackup for OpenStack container images
- 5] Provide environment details in nbos_env.yaml
- 6] Deploy overcloud with NetBackup OpenStack environment
- 7] Verify deployment
- 8] Additional Steps on NetBackup for OpenStack Appliance
- 9] Troubleshooting for overcloud deployment failures
- Installing on RHOSP
- Configuring NetBackup for OpenStack
- Post Installation Health-Check
- Uninstalling from RHOSP
- Clean NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API service
- Clean NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover Service
- Clean NetBackup for OpenStack haproxy resources
- Clean NetBackup for OpenStack Keystone resources
- Clean NetBackup for OpenStack database resources
- Revert overcloud deploy command
- Revert back to original RHOSP Horizon container
- Destroy the NetBackup for OpenStack VM Cluster
- Install workloadmgr CLI client
- Configuring NetBackup OpenStack Appliance
- Configuring NetBackup Master Server
- NetBackup for OpenStack policies
- Performing backups and restores of OpenStack
- About snapshots
- List of snapshots
- Creating a snapshot
- Snapshot overview
- Delete snapshots
- Snapshot Cancel
- About restores
- List of Restores
- Restores overview
- Delete a Restore
- Cancel a Restore
- One-Click Restore
- Selective Restore
- Inplace Restore
- Required restore.json for CLI
- About file search
- Navigating to the file search tab in Horizon
- Configuring and starting a file search in Horizon
- Start the File Search and retrieve the results in Horizon
- Doing a CLI File Search
- About snapshot mount
- Create a File Recovery Manager Instance
- Mounting a snapshot
- Accessing the File Recovery Manager
- Identifying mounted snapshots
- Unmounting a snapshot
- About schedulers
- Disable a schedule
- Enable a schedule
- Modify a schedule
- About email notifications
- Requirements to activate email Notifications
- Activate/Deactivate the email Notifications
- Performing Backup Administration tasks
- NBOS Backup Admin Area
- Policy Attributes
- Policy Quotas
- Managing Trusts
- Policy import and migration
- Disaster Recovery
- Example runbook for disaster recovery using NFS
- Scenario
- Prerequisites for the disaster recovery process
- Disaster recovery of a single policy
- Copy the policy directories to the configured NFS Volume
- Make the Mount-Paths available
- Reassign the policy
- Add admin-user to required domains and projects
- Discover orphaned policies from NFS-Storage of Target Cloud
- List available projects on Target Cloud in the Target Domain
- List available users on the Target Cloud in the Target Project that have the right backup trustee role
- Reassign the policy to the target project
- Verify that the policy is available at the desired target_project
- Restore the policy
- Clean up
- Disaster recovery of a complete cloud
- Reconfigure the Target NetBackup for OpenStack installation
- Make the Mount-Paths available
- Reassign the policy
- Add admin-user to required domains and projects
- Discover orphaned policies from NFS-Storage of Target Cloud
- List available projects on Target Cloud in the Target Domain
- List available users on the Target Cloud in the Target Project that have the right backup trustee role
- Reassign the policy to the target project
- Verify that the policy is available at the desired target_project
- Restore the policy
- Reconfigure the Target NetBackup for OpenStack installation back to the original one
- Clean up
- Troubleshooting
- Index
Creating a snapshot
Snapshots are automatically created by the NetBackup for OpenStack scheduler. If necessary or in case of deactivated scheduler, you can create a snapshot on demand.
There are two possibilities to create a snapshot on demand.
Possibility 1: From the policy overview
On the Horizon console, navigate to NBOS Backups > Policies.
Identify the policy to create a snapshot.
Click .
Provide a name and description for the snapshot.
Decide between Full and Incremental Snapshot.
Click .
Possibility 2: From the policy snapshot list
On the Horizon console, navigate to NBOS Backups > Policies.
Identify the policy to create a snapshot.
Click the policy name to enter the policy overview.
Navigate to the Snapshots tab.
Click .
Provide a name and description for the snapshot.
Decide between Full and Incremental Snapshot.
Click .
workloadmgr workload-snapshot [--full] [--display-name <display-name>]
[--display-description <display-description>]
<workload_id>
<workload_id> ID of the policy to snapshot.
--full Specify if a full snapshot is required.
--display-name <display-name> Optional snapshot name. (Default=None)
--display-description <display-description> Optional snapshot description. (Default=None)