NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Object Store Administrator's Guide

To recover assets:

1. On the left, click Recovery. Under Regular recovery, click Start recovery.
2. In the Basic properties page, select Policy type as Cloud-Object-Store.
3. Click the Buckets/Containers field to select assets to restore.

   • In the Add bucket/container dialog, the default option, displays all available bucket/containers for recovery. You can search the table using the search box.

   • To add a specific bucket or container, select Add the bucket/container details option. Enter the name of the bucket/container, select the cloud provider, and enter the Cloud object account name.

     Note:

     In a rare scenario, if you cannot find the required bucket listed in the table for selection. But you can see the same bucket listed in catalog view as backup ID. You can select the bucket by manually entering bucket name, provider ID, and the Cloud object store account name as per the backup ID. The backup ID is formed as <providerId>_<cloudAccountname>_<BucketName>_<timestamp>

4. Click Add, and then, click Next.
5. In the Add objects page, select the Start date and the End date of the period from which you want to restore.

   (Optionally) Enter a keyword phrase to filter the images, and click Apply.

6. Click Backup history, and select the required images for recovery from the Backup history dialog. Click Select.
7. (Optional) Click Add objects and folders, and select the required objects to recover from the Add Object/blobs and folders dialog. Select Include all objects/blobs and folders to include all available assets. You can use the left navigation tree structure to filter the table. Click Add.
8. (Optionally) Click Add prefix. In the Add prefix dialog, enter a prefix in the search box to display relevant results in the table. Click Add, to select all the matching prefixes displayed in the table for recovery. The selected prefixes are displayed in a table below the selected objects/blobs. Click Next.
9. In the Recovery options page, you can select whether you want to restore to the source bucket of container or user different ones. These are the Object restore options:

   • Restore to the original bucket or container: Select to recover to the same bucket or container from where the backup was taken. Optionally, add a prefix for the recovered assets in the Add a prefix field.

   • Restore to a different bucket or container: Select to recover to a different bucket or container than the one from where the backup was taken.

     • You can select a different Cloud object store account as destination, from the list above.

     • Select a destination Bucket/Container name. You can use different Cloud object store accounts that can access the original bucket. This method also helps you to make accounts with limited and specific permissions for backup and restore. In this case, you can provide the same bucket as original to restore to original bucket/container.

     • Optionally, add a prefix for the recovered assets in the Add a prefix field.

   • Restore object/blobs or prefixes to different destinations: Select to recover each of your selected assets to different destinations.

     • You can select a different Cloud object store account as destination, from the list above.

     • Click Edit object destination, enter the Destination and Destination bucket/container name. Click Save.

     Note:

     If you have selected Include all objects/blobs and folders, in step 7, the Restore objects/blobs or prefixes to different destinations option is disabled.

10. Select a Recovery host.
11. Optionally, to overwrite any preexisting object or blobs using the recovered assets, select Overwrite existing objects/blobs.
12. (Optional) To override the default priority of the restore job, select Override default priority, and assign the required value.
13. In the Review page, check all the summary of all the selections that you made, click Start recovery.

    You can see the progress of the restore job in the Activity monitor.