NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (10.2)
  1. Managing and protecting cloud assets
    1.  
      About protecting cloud assets
    2.  
      Limitations and considerations
    3. Configure Snapshot Manager's in NetBackup
      1.  
        Configure a third-party CA certificate
      2.  
        Add a Snapshot Manager
      3. Add a cloud provider for a Snapshot Manager
        1.  
          IAM Role for AWS Configuration
      4.  
        Associate media servers with a Snapshot Manager
      5.  
        Discover assets on Snapshot Manager
      6.  
        Edit a Snapshot Manager
      7.  
        Enable or disable a Snapshot Manager
      8.  
        (Optional) Add the Snapshot Manager extension
    4. Managing intelligent cloud groups
      1.  
        Create an intelligent cloud group
      2.  
        Delete an intelligent cloud group
    5. Protecting cloud assets or intelligent cloud groups
      1.  
        Customize or edit protection for cloud assets or intelligent groups
      2.  
        Remove protection from cloud assets or intelligent groups
    6.  
      Cloud asset cleanup
    7.  
      Cloud asset filtering
    8.  
      AWS and Azure government cloud support
    9. About protecting Microsoft Azure resources using resource groups
      1.  
        Before you begin
      2.  
        Limitations and considerations
      3. About resource group configurations and outcome
        1.  
          Examples of resource group configurations
      4.  
        Troubleshoot resource group permissions
    10. About the NetBackup Accelerator for cloud workloads
      1.  
        How the NetBackup Accelerator works with virtual machines
      2.  
        Accelerator forced rescan for virtual machines (schedule attribute)
      3.  
        Accelerator backups and the NetBackup catalog
      4.  
        Accelerator messages in the backup job details log
    11.  
      Configuring backup schedule for cloud workloads
    12.  
      Backup options for cloud workloads
    13.  
      Snapshot replication
    14.  
      Configure AWS snapshot replication
    15.  
      Using AWS snapshot replication
    16.  
      Support matrix for account replication
    17.  
      Protect applications in-cloud with application consistent snapshots
    18. Protecting PaaS assets
      1.  
        Prerequisites for protecting PaaS assets
      2. Installing the native client utilities
        1.  
          Installing the MySQL client utility
        2.  
          Installing sqlpackage client utility
        3.  
          Installing Postgres client utility
      3.  
        Configuring the storage server for instant access
      4.  
        About incremental backup for PaaS workloads
      5.  
        Limitations and considerations
      6.  
        Discovering PaaS assets
      7.  
        Viewing PaaS assets
      8.  
        Managing PaaS credentials
      9.  
        View the credential name that is applied to a database
      10. Add credentials to a database
        1.  
          Creating an IAM database username
        2.  
          Creating a system or user managed identity username
      11.  
        Add protection to PaaS assets
      12.  
        Perform backup now
  2. Recovering cloud assets
    1.  
      Recovering cloud assets
    2.  
      Perform rollback recovery of cloud assets
    3. Recovering PaaS assets
      1.  
        Recovering non-RDS PaaS assets
      2.  
        Recovering RDS-based PaaS asset
      3.  
        Recovering Azure protected assets
      4.  
        Recovering duplicate images from AdvancedDisk
  3. Performing granular restore
    1.  
      About granular restore
    2.  
      Supported environment list
    3.  
      List of supported file systems
    4.  
      Before you begin
    5.  
      Limitations and considerations
    6.  
      Restoring files and folders from cloud virtual machines
    7.  
      Restoring volumes on cloud virtual machines
    8.  
      Troubleshooting
  4. Troubleshooting protection and recovery of cloud assets
    1.  
      Troubleshoot cloud workload protection issues
    2.  
      Troubleshoot PaaS workload protection and recovery issues

About protecting cloud assets

Using NetBackup, you can now protect your in-cloud workloads. The cloud data protection framework leverages the Snapshot Manager infrastructure to drive faster proliferation of cloud providers. In NetBackup 8.3 and later, Snapshot Manager can protect assets in AWS, Azure, Azure Stack hub and GCP clouds.

The following table describes the tasks.

Table: Configuring protection for cloud assets

Task

Description

Before you begin ensure that you have the appropriate permissions.

To manage and protect cloud assets in the web UI you must have the workload administrator role or similar permissions. The NetBackup security administrator can manage your role permissions at an individual asset level or at the account or subscription level, or at a cloud provider level.

See the NetBackup Web UI Administrator's Guide.

Note:

For managing hosted applications, you need Manage Assets and Manage Protection Plans permissions.

Deploy Snapshot Manager

Install Snapshot Manager in your environment.

See Add a Snapshot Manager.

Review Snapshot Manager and NetBackup limitations.

See Limitations and considerations.

Configure the Snapshot Manager

Register the Snapshot Manager in NetBackup.

See the NetBackup Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide.

Add a configuration

All the supported cloud providers are displayed in the web UI.

You need to add the cloud account (configure the cloud plug-in) for the cloud provider you need. You can create multiple configurations for each provider.

See Add a cloud provider for a Snapshot Manager.

For Amazon, you can choose to use IAM role.

See IAM Role for AWS Configuration.

Asset discovery

NetBackup retrieves the cloud assets pertaining to the cloud accounts that are configured in NetBackup. Assets are populated in NetBackup asset DB.

By default, asset discovery happens every 2 hours and is configurable.

In case of applications, you can set discovery interval between 15 minutes to 45 minutes.

See Discover assets on Snapshot Manager.

Create a protection plan

Create a protection plan. A protection plan is used to schedule backup start windows.

See the NetBackup Web UI Administrator's Guide.

You can also configure the protection plan for snapshot replication. See Configure AWS snapshot replication.

Choose to protect a virtual machine, application, or volume

For each cloud provider, a list of discovered assets is displayed. Add the assets to a protection plan.

See the NetBackup Web UI Administrator's Guide.

You can also choose to protect application using application consistent snapshots. See Protect applications in-cloud with application consistent snapshots.

Recover cloud assets

Troubleshooting

See Troubleshoot cloud workload protection issues.