NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (10.0)
  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. Monitoring NetBackup
    1.  
      The NetBackup dashboard
    2.  
      Job monitoring
    3.  
      Search for or filter jobs in the jobs list
  3. Managing and protecting cloud assets
    1.  
      About protecting cloud assets
    2.  
      Limitations and considerations
    3. Configure CloudPoint servers in NetBackup
      1.  
        Configure a third-party CA certificate
      2.  
        Add a CloudPoint server
      3. Add a cloud provider for a CloudPoint server
        1.  
          IAM Role for AWS Configuration
      4.  
        Associate media servers with a CloudPoint server
      5.  
        Discover assets on CloudPoint server
      6.  
        Edit a CloudPoint server
      7.  
        Enable or disable a CloudPoint server
      8.  
        (Optional) Add the CloudPoint extension
    4. Managing intelligent cloud groups
      1.  
        Create an intelligent cloud group
      2.  
        Delete an intelligent cloud group
    5. Protecting cloud assets or intelligent cloud groups
      1.  
        Customize or edit protection for cloud assets or intelligent groups
      2.  
        Remove protection from cloud assets or intelligent groups
    6.  
      Cloud asset cleanup
    7.  
      AWS and Azure government cloud support
    8. About protecting Microsoft Azure resources using resource groups
      1.  
        Before you begin
      2.  
        Limitations and considerations
      3. About resource group configurations and outcome
        1.  
          Examples of resource group configurations
      4.  
        Troubleshoot resource group permissions
    9. About the NetBackup Accelerator for cloud workloads
      1.  
        How the NetBackup Accelerator works with virtual machines
      2.  
        Accelerator forced rescan for virtual machines (schedule attribute)
      3.  
        Accelerator backups and the NetBackup catalog
      4.  
        Accelerator messages in the backup job details log
    10.  
      Configuring backup schedule for cloud workloads
    11.  
      Backup options for cloud workloads
    12.  
      Snapshot replication
    13.  
      Configure AWS snapshot replication
    14.  
      Using AWS snapshot replication
    15.  
      Support matrix for account replication
    16.  
      Protect applications in-cloud with application consistent snapshots
    17.  
      Discovering PaaS assets
  4. Recovering cloud assets
    1.  
      Recovering cloud assets
    2.  
      Perform rollback recovery of cloud assets
    3.  
      Recovering PaaS assets
  5. Performing granular restore
    1.  
      About granular restore
    2.  
      Supported environment list
    3.  
      List of supported file systems
    4.  
      Before you begin
    5.  
      Limitations and considerations
    6.  
      Restoring files and folders from cloud virtual machines
    7.  
      Restoring volumes on cloud virtual machines
    8.  
      Performing steps after volume restore containing LVM
    9.  
      Troubleshooting
  6. Troubleshooting protection and recovery of cloud assets
    1.  
      Troubleshoot cloud workload protection issues
    2.  
      Troubleshoot PaaS workload recovery issues

Configuring backup schedule for cloud workloads

You can add backup schedule in the Attributes tab of the Add backup schedule dialog, while creating a protection plan for the Azure, Azure Stack, and AWS cloud workloads.

See the Managing protection plans section of the NetBackup Web UI Administrator's Guide, for details of how to create a protection plan.

To add backup schedule to a cloud workload

  1. On the left, click Protection > Protection plans and then click Add.
  2. In Basic properties, enter a Name, Description, and select Cloud, from the Workload drop-down list.
  3. Select a Cloud Provider from the drop-down list, click Next. In Schedules, click Add schedule.

    In the Add backup schedule tab, you can configure the options for retaining the backup and the snapshot.

  4. From the Recurrence drop-down, specify the frequency of the backup.
  5. In the Snapshot and backup options, do any of the following:

    • Select Keep snapshot along with backup option to retain both the snapshot and the backup. Specify retention period for both the snapshot and the backup, using the Keep snapshot for and the Keep backup for drop-downs. Select Full from the Backup type drop-down. Select Initiate backup only when the snapshot is about to expire option, to start the backup job just before the retained snapshot expires.

    • Select Keep snapshot only option, to retain only the snapshot. Specify retention period for the snapshot using the Keep snapshot for drop-down.

      • (Optional) If you have selected provider as Amazon AWS, and selected to retain the snapshot by selecting any of the above two options, you can configure snapshot replication at this point. For more information about cloud snapshot replication, See Configure AWS snapshot replication.

      • Select Enable Snapshot replication.

      • In the table, select Region, AWS Account, and Retention period for the replicated snapshots.

        Note:

        The number of replication copies that you configure is displayed in the Snapshot replicas column in the Schedules and retention table in the Schedules tab.

    • Select Keep backup only option, to retain only the backup. The snapshot expires immediately after the backup. Specify retention period for the backup using the Keep backup for drop-down. Select Full from the Backup type drop-down.

      Note:

      As NetBackup supports granular restore only from the snapshot, if you select Keep Backup Only the granular recovery options do not work. Similarly, AWS snapshot replication feature does not work if you select Keep Backup Only.

  6. Continue creating the schedule in the Start window tab, as described in the Managing protection plans section of the NetBackup Web UI Administrator's Guide.
Availability of granular recovery for different backup options

Availability of the granular recovery for files or folders option, depends on the different backup options that you select for the workload.

  • When you select the Keep snapshot along with backup option, granular recovery is available.

  • When you select the Keep snapshot only option, granular recovery is available.

  • When you select the Keep backup only option, granular recovery is not available.

Indexing during backup and snapshot jobs

  • NetBackup performs VxMS (Veritas Mapping Service) based indexing from snapshot, and inline indexing during the backup from snapshot Jobs. It can index files irrespective of the region and location of the CloudPoint server. VxMS based indexing is currently supported for AWS, Azure, and Azure Stack Hub clouds.

  • Indexing is performed during the actual backup or snapshot jobs, but you can perform the recovery of individual files or folders only from the snapshot copy using Enable granular recovery for files and folders option.

  • Once the snapshot of the VM assets is created, the 'Index from Snapshot' job for each of the assets is triggered. You can check the indexing job details in the Activity Monitor.

  • The VxMS debug logs and the cloud connector debug logs are available in the /cloudpoint/openv/dm/datamover.<datamover-id>/netbackup/logs folder of the CloudPoint server.

Note:

If the VM is not in connected state, then the VM backup continues and the backup job is marked as partially successful. In this case, you cannot restore individual files or folders as the indexing is not available when the VM is not connected.