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

Discover assets on Snapshot Manager

After you configure your cloud providers with a Snapshot Manager, automatic discovery is triggered to discover assets from the cloud. During periodic discovery, NetBackup pulls the assets data from Snapshot Manager every two hours whereas Snapshot Manager pulls the asset data from cloud provider configurations every one hour. If you disable a Snapshot Manager, all the assets associated with that server are no longer protected or synced with NetBackup.

You can also manually trigger the cloud asset discovery if required, using the Discover option for individual cloud provider configurations, or you can trigger a discovery on a Snapshot Manager to fetch the assets data available on the Snapshot Manager.

After the first full discovery, NetBackup subsequently performs periodic incremental discovery of assets for the configured Snapshot Manager. It only detects the changes, such as addition, removal, or modification of assets, that occurred between the last and current discovery.

Note:

For the accurate incremental discovery, ensure that the time is set correctly on the NetBackup master server and the Snapshot Manager, according to the time-zones they are located in, to avoid any issues with the discovery.

The following procedure describes how to perform discovery at the Snapshot Manager level, which does not actually discover the assets from the Cloud, but only fetches the point-in-time data from Snapshot Manager.

To discover assets on Snapshot Manager

  1. On the left, click Cloud.
  2. Click on the Snapshot Manager tab
  3. From the menu next to the Snapshot Manager, click Discover.

The following procedure describes how to perform discovery at the configuration level, which triggers a deep discovery of assets and fetches the point-in-time state of the assets detecting any additions, modifications, or deletion of assets in the Cloud.

To discover assets for a cloud provider configuration

  1. On the left, click Cloud.
  2. Click on the Snapshot Manager tab
  3. Click the Snapshot Manager IP or hostname for which to view the cloud providers.
  4. Click on the provider tab for which to view the configurations.
  5. From the menu next to the configuration name, click Discover.

Note:

If the discovery on cloud provider configurations takes more than 30 minutes, the discovery operation times out. But the subsequent operation continues which syncs the NetBackup assets with the Snapshot Manager assets.

Change the autodiscovery frequency for Snapshot Manager

Use nbgetconfig and the nbsetconfig commands to view, add, or change the autodiscovery option. For example:

CLOUD_AUTODISCOVERY_INTERVAL = number of seconds

See the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I for more details.