NetBackup™ for 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 with completed backups. You can search the table using the search box.

   • To add a specific bucket or container, select Add the bucket/container details option. If you have selected an Azure Data Lake workload, select Add files/directories.

     Select the cloud provider, and enter the bucket/container name, and the Cloud object store account name. For Azure workloads, specify the storage account name, if available in the UI.

     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 the catalog view as a backup ID. You can select the bucket by manually entering the bucket name, provider ID, and the Cloud object store account name as per the backup ID. The backup ID is formed as <providerId>_<cloudAccountname>_<uniquename>_<timestamp>

     for Azure the uniquename is storageaccountname.bucketname, and for S3 providers it is the bucket name.

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. In the Recovery details page, you can add the objects and folders or prefix and scan the selected images for malware before restoring the images:

   • (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. For an Azure Data Lake workload, this option is available as Include all files/directories. You can use the left navigation tree structure to filter the table. Click Add.

     The following warning message is displayed when images which are not scanned are selected for recovery:

     One or more images selected for recovery are not scanned.

     Note:

     To restore from malware-affected images, you must have the Administrator role or equivalent RBAC permissions.

     For more information on recovering from malware infected images, see Security and Encryption Guide.

   • (Optional) Select Scan for malware before recovery. Click Next. This option is visible only when malware scan host is configured.

     Note:

     The Allow the selection of images that are malware-affected option will be disabled if user selects Scan for malware before recovery option.

   • (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.

   Note:

   Clean file recovery (Skip infected files) as part of recovery is not supported for Cloud-Object-Store.

8. In the Recovery options page, you can select whether you want to restore to the source bucket of the container or use a different one. 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.

     • If you have selected an Azure Data Lake workload, enter the Directory to restore.

   • 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 the 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 create accounts with limited and specific permissions for backup and restore. In this case, you can provide the same bucket as the original to restore to the 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 the destination from the list.

     • 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.

9. Select a Recovery host. The recovery host that is associated with the Cloud object store account is displayed by default. If required, change the Backup host. If the Cloud object store account uses a scale-out server, this field is disabled.
10. Optionally, to overwrite any existing object or blobs using the recovered assets, select Overwrite existing objects/blobs.
11. (Optional) To override the default priority of the restore job, select Override default priority, and assign the required value.
12. In the Advanced restore options:

    • To apply the original object lock attributes from the backed-up objects, select Retain original object lock properties.

    • To change the values of different properties, select Customize object lock properties. From the Object lock mode list:

      • Select Compliance or Governance for Amazon or other S3 workloads.

      • Select Locked or Unlocked for Azure workloads.

      • Select a future date and time till which the object lock is valid. Note that the recovered object is locked till this specified date and time.

    • Select Object lock legal hold status to implement it on the restored objects.

    See Configuring Cloud object retention properties.

    The Advanced restore options are not applicable to the Azure Data Lake workload.

13. In the Malware scan and recovery options:

    Note:

    These options are visible only when you select the Scan for malware before recovery in the Recovery details page.

    • (Not recommended) Select If any files are infected with malware, recover all files, including infected files option to recover files infected with malware.

    • Select If any files are infected with malware, do not perform the recovery job option. By default this option is selected and recommended.

    • Select the desired Scan host pool.

    Note:

    For recovery followed by malware scan, the Allow recovery of files infected by malware option is always enabled by default as clean recovery is not supported for Cloud-Object-Store.

14. In the Review page, view the summary of all the selections that you made, and click:

    • Start recovery

      Or

    • (Applicable when Scan for malware before recovery is selected) Start scan and recovery

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