NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager Install and Upgrade Guide
- Introduction
- Section I. NetBackup Snapshot Manager installation and configuration
- Preparing for NetBackup Snapshot Manager installation
- Meeting system requirements
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager host sizing recommendations
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager extension sizing recommendations
- Creating an instance or preparing the host to install NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Installing container platform (Docker, Podman)
- Creating and mounting a volume to store NetBackup Snapshot Manager data
- Verifying that specific ports are open on the instance or physical host
- Preparing NetBackup Snapshot Manager for backup from snapshot jobs
- Deploying NetBackup Snapshot Manager using container images
- Deploying NetBackup Snapshot Manager extensions
- Before you begin installing NetBackup Snapshot Manager extensions
- Downloading the NetBackup Snapshot Manager extension
- Installing the NetBackup Snapshot Manager extension on a VM
- Installing the NetBackup Snapshot Manager extension on a managed Kubernetes cluster (AKS) in Azure
- Installing the NetBackup Snapshot Manager extension on a managed Kubernetes cluster (EKS) in AWS
- Installing the NetBackup Snapshot Manager extension on a managed Kubernetes cluster (GKE) in GCP
- Install extension using the Kustomize and CR YAMLs
- Managing the extensions
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager cloud providers
- Configuration for protecting assets on cloud hosts/VM
- Deciding which feature (on-host agent or agentless) of NetBackup Snapshot Manager is to be used for protecting the assets
- Protecting assets with NetBackup Snapshot Manager's on-host agent feature
- Installing and configuring NetBackup Snapshot Manager agent
- Configuring the NetBackup Snapshot Manager application plug-in
- Configuring an application plug-in
- Microsoft SQL plug-in
- Oracle plug-in
- Protecting assets with NetBackup Snapshot Manager's agentless feature
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager assets protection
- Volume Encryption in NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager security
- Preparing for NetBackup Snapshot Manager installation
- Section II. NetBackup Snapshot Manager maintenance
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager logging
- Upgrading NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- About NetBackup Snapshot Manager upgrades
- Supported upgrade path
- Upgrade scenarios
- Preparing to upgrade NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Upgrading NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Upgrading NetBackup Snapshot Manager using patch or hotfix
- Migrating and upgrading NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- GCP configuration for migration from zone to region
- Post-upgrade tasks
- Post-migration tasks
- Uninstalling NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Preparing to uninstall NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Backing up NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Unconfiguring NetBackup Snapshot Manager plug-ins
- Unconfiguring NetBackup Snapshot Manager agents
- Removing the NetBackup Snapshot Manager agents
- Removing NetBackup Snapshot Manager from a standalone Docker host environment
- Removing NetBackup Snapshot Manager extensions - VM-based or managed Kubernetes cluster-based
- Restoring NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Troubleshooting NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Troubleshooting NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- SQL snapshot or restore and granular restore operations fail if the Windows instance loses connectivity with the NetBackup Snapshot Manager host
- Disk-level snapshot restore fails if the original disk is detached from the instance
- Discovery is not working even after assigning system managed identity to the control node pool
- Performance issue with GCP backup from snapshot
- Post migration on host agents fail with an error message
- File restore job fails with an error message
- Acknowledgment not received for datamover
- Upgrade of extension on AWS (EKS) fails when upgrading through script
- Backup from snapshot job fails with timeout error
Restore requirements and limitations for Microsoft SQL Server
Consider the following before you restore a SQL Server snapshot:
Ensure that you close SQL Management Studio before you restore a SQL Server snapshot.
This is applicable only if you are restoring the snapshot to replace the current asset (Overwrite existing option) or restoring the snapshot to the same location as the original asset (Original Location option).
In case of a SQL instance disk-level restore to a new location fails if the target host is connected or configured.
In such a case, to complete the SQL Server snapshot restore to a new location successfully, you must perform the restore in the following order:
First, perform a SQL Server disk-level snapshot restore.
Ensure that you restore the disk snapshots of all the disks that are used by SQL Server. These are the disks on which SQL Server data is stored.
Then, after the disk-level restore is successful, perform the additional manual steps.
See Additional steps required after a SQL Server instance snapshot restore.
NetBackup Snapshot Manager does not support discovery, snapshot, and restore operations for SQL databases that contain leading or trailing spaces or non-printable characters. This is because the VSS writer goes into an error state for such databases.
Refer to the following for more details:
Before you restore a SQL Availability Group (AG) database, perform the pre-restore steps manually.
New location restore of system database is not supported.
If destination instance has AG configured, restore is not supported.
If database exists on new location destination and the overwrite existing option is not selected, the restore job will fail.
If the overwrite existing option is selected for database that is a part of an AG, the restore job will fail.
For system database restore, the SQL Server version must be same. For user databases, restore from a higher SQL version to a lower version is not allowed.
Default timeout of 6 hours is not allowing restore of larger database (size more than 300 GB). Configurable timeout parameter value can be set to restore larger database.