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
Adding a SQL Server instance to an instance group
This topic describes how to add an instance to an instance group. Instances in a group all use the same credentials setting.
To add an instance to an instance group
- In the NetBackup Administration Console, in the left pane, expand NetBackup Management > Applications > Microsoft SQL Server.
- Click All Instances.
- Select one or more instances that you want to add to an instance group.
For a SQL Server cluster, NetBackup adds a single entry or one instance to instance management. The host name for that instance is the virtual name of the SQL Server cluster.
- From the Actions menu, select Register.
- In the Register Instance dialog box, click Add to group and register using group credentials.
- From the Instance Group list, select the instance group to which you want to add the instance(s).
- Click OK.
If you previously registered an instance, its credentials are automatically changed to the group credentials setting. NetBackup validates the group credentials for the instance(s).
If the validation fails, you can choose to save the group or enter different credentials. See Troubleshooting credential validation with instance management (NetBackup for SQL Server). The backup of an instance fails if the credentials are not valid for that instance.