Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide
- Introducing NetBackup for SQL Server
- Installing NetBackup for SQL Server
- Instance Management for SQL Server Intelligent Policies
- Viewing the SQL Server instances and instance groups in instance management
- About registering SQL Server instances
- Configuring SQL Server backups with SQL Server Intelligent Policy
- Configuring NetBackup for SQL Server
- Performing restores of SQL Server
- Redirecting a SQL Server database to a different host
- Restoring multistreamed SQL Server backups
- Protecting SQL Server data with VMware backups
- About protecting SQL Server data with VMware backups
- Using NetBackup for SQL Server with Snapshot Client
- Using copy-only snapshot backups to affect how differentials are based
- About SQL Server agent grouped backups (legacy SQL Server policies)
- Protecting SQL Server in high availability (HA) environments
- About using NetBackup to protect SQL Server availability groups
- About protecting the preferred replica in a SQL Server availability group (legacy backup policies)
- About protecting a specific node in a SQL Server availability group (legacy backup policies)
- About NetBackup for SQL Server with database mirroring
- Backup and recovery concepts
- Overview of SQL Server backup and recovery concepts
- About recovery factors for SQL Server
- Using NetBackup for SQL Server with multiple NICs
- Configuring backups with legacy SQL Server policies using clients and batch files
- About using batch files with NetBackup for SQL Server
- About schedule properties (legacy SQL Server policies)
- Backing up read-only filegroups (legacy SQL Server backup policies)
- Performing user-directed operations with dbbackex
- Using bplist to retrieve a list of SQL Server backups
- SQL Server backups and restores in an SAP environment (legacy SQL Server policies)
- About SQL Server backups and restores in an SAP environment
- Troubleshooting
- About debug logging for SQL Server troubleshooting
- Disaster recovery of a SQL Server
- NetBackup for SQL dialog box topics
- NetBackup for SQL dialog box fields
- Appendix A. Sample batch files
- About sample backup batch files for legacy SQL Server policies
- About sample restore batch files
- About sample backup batch files for legacy SQL Server policies
- Appendix B. Multiplexed backups
- Appendix C. Register authorized locations
About disaster recovery of SQL Server
SQL Server corrects itself automatically from temporary or minor problems. However, most disasters are beyond the scope of the automatic recovery feature. For example, if a database becomes severely corrupted, or there is a catastrophic failure, recovery is initiated by the system administrator.
User-initiated recovery can entail either restoring the entire server, including the SQL Server databases, from full system backups. Or recovery can include restoring only the SQL Server databases to a newly-installed or other available SQL Server.
Restoring the entire server has the added benefit of recovering other applications and data which may have resided on the server at the time of failure. Restoring be accomplished using one of the following methods:
Manual recovery of the server. This method involves manually restoring the server from full system backups.
NetBackup Bare Metal Restore. BMR automates system recovery by restoring the operating system, system configuration, and all system files and data files. See the NetBackup Bare Metal Restore Administrator's Guide for more information.
After recovery of the server is complete, or after the new server installation is available, recovery of the SQL Server databases can begin.