NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide
- Managing and protecting cloud assets
- About protecting cloud assets
- Limitations and considerations
- Configure Snapshot Manager's in NetBackup
- Managing intelligent cloud groups
- Protecting cloud assets or intelligent cloud groups
- Cloud asset cleanup
- Cloud asset filtering
- AWS and Azure government cloud support
- About protecting Microsoft Azure resources using resource groups
- About the NetBackup Accelerator for cloud workloads
- Configuring backup schedule for cloud workloads
- Backup options for cloud workloads
- Snapshot replication
- Configure AWS snapshot replication
- Using AWS snapshot replication
- Support matrix for account replication
- Protect applications in-cloud with application consistent snapshots
- Protecting PaaS assets
- Prerequisites for protecting PaaS assets
- Installing the native client utilities
- Configuring the storage server for instant access
- About incremental backup for PaaS workloads
- Limitations and considerations
- Discovering PaaS assets
- Viewing PaaS assets
- Managing PaaS credentials
- View the credential name that is applied to a database
- Add credentials to a database
- Add protection to PaaS assets
- Perform backup now
- Recovering cloud assets
- Performing granular restore
- Troubleshooting protection and recovery of cloud assets
Prerequisites for protecting PaaS assets
NetBackup lets you discover, protect, and restore PaaS assets across different cloud platforms for a variety of assets. This section details the supported platforms and databases.
NetBackup enables you to protect PaaS assets with the following cloud providers:
Microsoft Azure
AWS
GCP
The following table lists the supported databases for each cloud provider.
Table: Supported databases by PaaS
Providers | Supported databases |
|---|---|
Microsoft Azure | PostgreSQL, SQL Managed Instance, SQL, MariaDB, and MySQL. The following components are not supported: Azure SQL - Elastic pool Azure SQL Managed Instance - Azure Arc Azure PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus) server group and Azure Arc enabled PostgreSQL Hyperscale |
AWS | RDS SQL, RDS PostgreSQL, RDS MySQL, RDS MariaDB, RDS Aurora MySQL, RDS Aurora PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB. |
GCP | Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and Cloud SQL for MySQL |
This section details the supported platforms for primary and media servers.
Table: Supported platforms for PaaS
NetBackup server | Supported platform |
|---|---|
Primary | RHEL, SUSE, and Windows |
Media | RHEL |
Storage server | Universal share on underlying MSDP block storage or MSDP-Cloud storage STU |
The credential that you use to add the cloud providers must have all the required permissions and privileges assigned as mentioned in the NetBackup Snapshot Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide.
Here are the supported ports for different PaaS databases.
Table: Supported ports for PaaS
Database PaaS workload | Supported ports |
|---|---|
Azure SQL Server | 1433 |
Azure SQL Managed Instance | 1433 |
Azure MySQL | 3306 |
Azure PostgreSQL | 5432 |
Azure MariaDB | 3306 |
GCP PostgreSQL | 5432 |
GCP MySQL | 3306 |
AWS DynamoDB | NA |
AWS RDS PostgreSQL | 5432 |
AWS RDS MySQL | 3306 |
AWS MariaDB | 3306 |
AWS RDS AuroraDB Postgres | 5432 |
AWS RDS AuroraDB MySQL | 3306 |
AWS RDS SQL server | 1433 |
For AWS, see https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/rds-mysql-functions/
For Azure, set the value of the parameter
log_bin_trust_function_creatorsas 1, as described in the link:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/mysql/single-server/how-to-server-parameters
For GCP, do the following:
Open the instance and click Edit.
Scroll down to Flags section.
To set a flag, click Add item, select log_bin_trust_function_creators flag from the drop-down menu, and set its value to on.
Click Save to save your changes. You can confirm your changes under Flags in the Overview page.