NetBackup™ for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide
- About NetBackup for SQL Server
- Installation
- Host configuration and job settings
- Installing the Veritas VSS provider for vSphere
- Configuring RBAC for SQL Server administrators
- Managing SQL Server assets and their credentials
- About discovery of SQL Server objects
- About registering SQL Server instances and availability replicas
- Configuring backups with SQL Server Intelligent Policy
- Performance tuning and configuration options
- Protecting SQL Server availability groups
- Protecting SQL Server availability groups with intelligent policies
- Protecting SQL Server availibility groups with batch file-based policies
- About protecting the preferred replica in a SQL Server availability group (batch file-based policies)
- About protecting a specific node in a SQL Server availability group (batch file-based policies)
- About protecting the preferred replica in a SQL Server availability group (batch file-based policies)
- Protecting SQL Server with VMware backups
- About protecting an application database with VMware backups
- Create a protection plan to protect SQL Server data with a VMware backup
- Configuring backup policies with Snapshot Client
- Using copy-only snapshot backups to affect how differentials are based
- About SQL Server agent grouped snapshots
- Protecting SQL Server in a cluster environment
- Managing protection plans for SQL Server
- Restoring SQL Server with the NetBackup web UI
- Using instant access with SQL Server
- Prerequisites when you configure an instant access SQL Server database
- Configuring batch-file based policies for SQL Server backups
- Requirements to use batch files with NetBackup for SQL Server
- Schedule properties for SQL Server batch file-based policies
- Configure a batch file-based policy for a user-directed backup of read-only filegroups
- Performing backups and restores with the NetBackup MS SQL Client
- Redirect a SQL Server database to a different host (NetBackup MS SQL Client)
- Restoring multistreamed SQL Server backups
- Using NetBackup for SQL Server with multiple NICs
- Performance and troubleshooting
- About debug logging for SQL Server troubleshooting
- About disaster recovery of SQL Server
- Appendix A. Other configurations
- About SQL Server backups and restores in an SAP environment
- About NetBackup for SQL Server with database mirroring
- Appendix B. Register authorized locations
Configuring backups of clustered SQL Server instances (SQL Server Intelligent Policy)
This procedure describes how to protect SQL Server clustered instances with a SQL Server Intelligent Policy. Perform these steps after you create the virtual SQL Server (VIRTUALSERVER). The following actions must be performed on the primary server or on a NetBackup remote client console that acts for the primary server.
If you have a SQL Server cluster with multiple NICs, you must follow a different procedure.
To configure backups of clustered SQL Server instances (SQL Server Intelligent Policy)
- Open the NetBackup web UI.
- Create a policy (for example, VIRTSQLPOLICY).
- On the Attributes tab, configure the following:
Select the MS-SQL-Server policy type.
Specify a storage unit. If you use a virtual media server, then specify a storage unit that belongs to the virtual media server.
- On the Instances and databases tab, select Protect instances.
- Add the instances or databases that you want to protect.
For a clustered instance, the host name is the virtual name of the SQL Server cluster.
Add other policy information as follows:
Add schedules.
(Optional) Select the specific filegroups or files that you want to back up. By default, NetBackup backs up an entire database.
(Optional) Make changes to any tuning parameters.
- Map the virtual name of the SQL Server cluster to each node in the cluster.
Configure these mappings in the Distributed application restore mapping host property on the primary server.
See Configuring mappings for restores of a distributed applications, clusters, or virtual machines .
- Configure the mapped host names for the SQL Server hosts in your environment.
Configure these mappings in Security > Host mappings on the primary server.