NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide
- Managing and protecting cloud assets
- Configure Snapshot Manager's in NetBackup
- Managing intelligent cloud groups
- Protecting cloud assets or intelligent cloud groups
- About protecting Microsoft Azure resources using resource groups
- About the NetBackup Accelerator for cloud workloads
- Protecting PaaS assets
- Installing the native client utilities
- Add credentials to a database
- Recovering cloud assets
- Performing granular restore
- Troubleshooting protection and recovery of cloud assets
About incremental backup for PaaS workloads
NetBackup supports differential incremental backup for Azure SQL server workload. Incremental backups reduce the backup window significantly in NetBackup. In this method, NetBackup, backs up only the data that has been changed since the subsequent full backup.
Differential incremental backup is only supported for those workloads, where the Change Data Capture feature on the Azure SQL server is enabled.
Guidelines for working with incremental backups for PaaS workloads:
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.
Use one storage for full and incremental backups.
Do not create long-term copy for incremental backups.
Do not expire random incremental backup images. Expiring them may cause application inconsistency due to data loss. NetBackup relies on previous full backup and all the subsequent incremental backups.
While duplicating, ensure that the full and the incremental backup copies are duplicated to the target storage. Any of the previous full or incremental images missing may result in data loss.
While importing, ensure that the full and all the incremental backup copies are imported together. Any of the previous dependent full or incremental images missing may result in failure.