NetBackup™ Web UI Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (9.1)
  1. Introducing the NetBackup web user interface
    1.  
      About the NetBackup web UI
    2.  
      Terminology
    3.  
      Sign in to the NetBackup web UI
    4.  
      Sign out of the NetBackup web UI
  2. About NetBackup for SQL Server
    1.  
      Overview of NetBackup for SQL Server
  3. Installation and host configuration
    1.  
      Planning the installation of NetBackup for SQL Server
    2. Configuring SQL Server hosts and user permissions
      1.  
        Installing the Veritas VSS provider for vSphere
    3.  
      Configuring the NetBackup services for SQL Server backups and restores
    4.  
      Configure local security privileges for SQL Server
  4. Monitoring NetBackup
    1.  
      The NetBackup dashboard
    2.  
      Monitoring jobs
    3.  
      Filter jobs in the job list
  5. Managing SQL Server discovery and credentials
    1. About discovery of SQL Server objects
      1.  
        Discover advanced or basic availability groups on demand
      2.  
        Discover databases on demand
      3.  
        Discover read-scale availability groups
    2.  
      Browse SQL Server assets
    3.  
      About SQL Server credentials
    4.  
      Add credentials to SQL Server instances or replicas
    5.  
      Manage SQL Server credentials
    6.  
      Remove SQL Server instances
    7.  
      Manually add a SQL Server instance
  6. Managing protection plans for SQL Server
    1.  
      About protecting SQL Server availability groups
    2. Create a protection plan to protect SQL Server assets
      1.  
        Schedules and retention
      2.  
        Performance tuning and configuration options
      3.  
        Using copy-only snapshot backups to affect how differentials are based
      4.  
        Snapshot methods
    3.  
      Protect a SQL Server availability group that crosses NetBackup domains
  7. Protecting SQL Server
    1.  
      Add SQL Server assets to a protection plan
    2.  
      Edit protection settings for a Microsoft SQL Server asset
    3.  
      View the protection status of databases, instances, or availability groups
    4.  
      Remove protection from SQL Server assets
  8. Restoring SQL Server
    1.  
      Requirements for restores of SQL Server
    2.  
      Perform a complete database recovery
    3.  
      Recover a single recovery point
    4.  
      Options for SQL Server restores
    5.  
      Restore a database (non-administrator users)
    6.  
      Select a different backup copy for recovery
    7.  
      Restore a SQL Server availability database to a secondary replica
    8.  
      Restore a SQL Server availability database to the primary and the secondary replicas
  9. Using instant access with SQL Server
    1. Prerequisites when you configure an instant access SQL Server database
      1.  
        Hardware configuration requirement of instant access
    2.  
      Things to consider before you configure an instant access database
    3.  
      Configure Samba users for SQL Server instant access
    4.  
      Configure an instant access database
    5.  
      View the livemount details of an instant access database
    6.  
      Delete an instant access database
    7.  
      Options for NetBackup for SQL Server instant access
    8.  
      NetBackup for SQL Server terms
    9.  
      Frequently asked questions
  10. Protecting SQL Server with VMware backups
    1.  
      About protecting an application database with VMware backups
    2. Create a protection plan to protect SQL Server data with a VMware backup
      1.  
        Backup options and Advanced options
      2.  
        Exclude disks from backups
      3.  
        Snapshot retry options
    3.  
      Protect SQL Server data with a VMware backup
    4.  
      Restore SQL Server databases from a VMware backup
  11. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Troubleshooting credential validation
    2.  
      Troubleshooting VMware backups and restores of SQL Server
    3.  
      SQL Server log truncation failure during VMware backups of SQL Server

Prerequisites when you configure an instant access SQL Server database

The prerequisites are only applicable to Microsoft SQL Server instant access Build Your Own (BYO).

Prerequisites:

  • The BYO server operating system version must be same as the latest appliance operating system version that is RHEL 7.6 and RHEL 7.7.

  • - Ensure that the Samba service is installed and the Samba share permission is allowed in the selinux policy using the following command

    setsebool -P samba_export_all_rw=1

  • The storage server with NGINX installed.

    • The NGINX version must be same as the one in the corresponding official RHEL version release. You need to install it from the corresponding RHEL yum source (epel).

    • Ensure that the policycoreutils and policycoreutils-python packages are installed from the same RHEL yum source (rhel server). Then run the following commands:

      • semanage port -a -t http_port_t -p tcp 10087

      • setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1

  • Ensure that the /mnt folder on the storage server is not mounted by any mount points directly. User mount points should be mounted to its subfolders.

  • Enable the logrotate permission in selinux using the following command:

    semanage permissive -a logrotate_t

  • Instant access is only supported for SQL Server backup images when the following conditions are met:

    • Snapshots are enabled in the policy or the protection plan.

    • The backup is a full database backup.

    • The primary server, media server, storage server, and client must be at version 8.3 or later.

    • The storage server must be an appliance or BYO that meets the earlier specified prerequisites.

    Note:

    Instant access for incremental and transaction log backups depends on the instant access capability of its base backup image.