NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide

To add backup schedule to a cloud workload

1. On the left, click Protection > Protection plans and then click Add.
2. In Basic properties, enter a Name, Description, and select Cloud, from the Workload drop-down list.
3. Select a Cloud Provider from the drop-down list, click Next. In Schedules, click Add schedule.

   In the Add backup schedule tab, you can configure the options for retaining the backup and the snapshot.

4. (For Azure SQL PaaS assets only.) If you have selected Protect PaaS assets only for the protection plan, select Backup type as Incremental backup or Full. For incremental backup type, NetBackup taken an initial full backup, and all subsequent backups capture only incremental changes in the database. This feature increases backup performance to a great extent. In case of a schema change, goes back to full backup from incremental backup, and notifies this activity in the activity monitor.

   Assign a longer retention period to full backups than to incremental backups within a policy. A complete restore requires the previous full backup plus all subsequent incremental backups. It may not be possible to restore all the files if the full backup expires before the incremental backups. See About incremental backup for PaaS workloads.

5. From the Recurrence drop-down, specify the frequency of the backup.
6. In the Snapshot and backup options, do any of the following:

   • Select Keep snapshot along with backup option to retain both the snapshot and the backup. Specify retention period for both the snapshot and the backup, using the Keep snapshot for and the Keep backup for drop-downs. Select Full from the Backup type drop-down. Select Initiate backup only when the snapshot is about to expire option, to start the backup job just before the retained snapshot expires.

   • Select Keep snapshot only option, to retain only the snapshot. Specify retention period for the snapshot using the Keep snapshot for drop-down.

     • (Optional) If you have selected provider as Amazon AWS, and selected to retain the snapshot by selecting any of the above two options, you can configure snapshot replication at this point. For more information about cloud snapshot replication, See Configure AWS snapshot replication.

     • Select Enable Snapshot replication.

     • In the table, select Region, AWS Account, and Retention period for the replicated snapshots.

       Note:

       The number of replication copies that you configure is displayed in the Snapshot replicas column in the Schedules and retention table in the Schedules tab.

   • Select Keep backup only option, to retain only the backup. The snapshot expires immediately after the backup. Specify retention period for the backup using the Keep backup for drop-down. Select Full from the Backup type drop-down.

     Note:

     As NetBackup supports granular restore only from the snapshot, if you select Keep Backup Only the granular recovery options do not work. Similarly, AWS snapshot replication feature does not work if you select Keep Backup Only.

7. Continue creating the schedule in the Start window tab, as described in the Managing protection plans section of the NetBackup Web UI Administrator's Guide.