NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.4)
  1. Managing and protecting cloud assets
    1.  
      About protecting cloud assets
    2.  
      Limitations and considerations
    3. Configure Snapshot Manager in NetBackup
      1.  
        Add a Snapshot Manager
      2. Add a cloud provider for a Snapshot Manager
        1.  
          IAM Role for AWS Configuration
        2.  
          IAM Role for OCI Configuration
      3.  
        Associate media servers with a Snapshot Manager
      4.  
        Discover assets on Snapshot Manager
      5.  
        Enable or disable a Snapshot Manager
      6.  
        (Optional) Add the Snapshot Manager extension
    4. Managing intelligent groups for cloud assets
      1.  
        Considerations for cloud intelligent groups
      2.  
        Create an intelligent group for cloud assets
      3.  
        Delete an intelligent group for cloud assets
    5. Protecting cloud assets or intelligent groups for cloud assets
      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.  
      Cloud asset filtering
    8.  
      AWS and Azure government cloud support
    9. 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
    10. 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
    11.  
      Configuring backup schedules for cloud workloads
    12.  
      Backup options for cloud workloads
    13.  
      Snapshot replication
    14.  
      Configure AWS snapshot replication
    15.  
      Using AWS snapshot replication
    16.  
      Support matrix for account replication
    17.  
      Protect applications in-cloud with application-consistent snapshots
    18.  
      Protecting AWS or Azure VMs for recovering to VMware
    19. Protecting PaaS assets
      1.  
        Prerequisites for protecting PaaS assets
      2. Installing the native client utilities
        1.  
          Installing the MySQL client utility
        2.  
          Installing the sqlpackage client utility
        3.  
          Installing PostgreSQL client utility
        4.  
          Installing MongoDB client utility
        5.  
          Installing the Amazon RDS for Oracle client utility
      3.  
        Configuring the storage server for instant access
      4.  
        Prerequisites for protecting Amazon RDS SQL Server database assets
      5. Configuring storage for different deployments
        1.  
          For MSDP cloud deployments
        2.  
          For Kubernetes deployments
        3.  
          For VM-based BYO deployments
      6.  
        About incremental backup for PaaS workloads
      7.  
        About archive redo log backup for PaaS workloads
      8.  
        Limitations and considerations
      9.  
        Discovering PaaS assets
      10.  
        Viewing PaaS assets
      11.  
        Managing PaaS credentials
      12.  
        View the credential name that is applied to a database
      13. Add credentials to a database
        1.  
          Creating an IAM database username
        2.  
          Configuring permissions for the database user
        3.  
          Creating a system or user-managed identity username
      14.  
        Add protection to PaaS assets
      15.  
        Perform backup now
  2. Recovering cloud assets
    1.  
      Recovering cloud assets
    2.  
      Perform rollback recovery of cloud assets
    3. Recovering AWS or Azure VMs to VMware
      1.  
        Post-recovery considerations for cloud VMs recovered to VMware
      2. Steps to recover images from cloud VMs to VMware
        1.  
          Recovering images from AWS to VMware
        2.  
          Recovering images from Azure to VMware
    4. Recovering PaaS assets
      1.  
        Recovering non-RDS PaaS assets
      2.  
        Recovering RDS-based PaaS asset
      3.  
        Recovering Azure-protected assets
      4.  
        Recovering duplicate images from AdvancedDisk
  3. 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
  4. Troubleshooting protection and recovery of cloud assets
    1.  
      Troubleshoot cloud workload protection issues
    2.  
      Error Code 9855: Error occurred while exporting snapshot for the asset: <asset_name>
    3.  
      Backup from snapshot jobs take longer time than expected
    4.  
      Backup from snapshot job fails due to connectivity issues when Snapshot Manager is deployed on an Ubuntu host
    5.  
      Error disambiguation in NetBackup UI
    6. Troubleshoot PaaS workload protection and recovery issues
      1.  
        Troubleshooting Amazon Redshift issues

About protecting cloud assets

Using NetBackup, you can now protect your in-cloud workloads. The cloud data protection framework leverages the Snapshot Manager infrastructure to drive faster proliferation of cloud providers. In NetBackup 8.3 and later, Snapshot Manager can protect assets in AWS, Azure, Azure Stack hub, GCP, and from version 10.4 OCI cloud is also supported.

The following table describes the tasks.

Table: Configuring protection for cloud assets

Task

Description

Before you begin, ensure that you have the appropriate permissions.

To manage and protect cloud assets in the web UI you must have the workload administrator role or similar permissions. The NetBackup security administrator can manage your role permissions at an individual asset level or at the account or subscription level, or at a cloud provider level.

See the NetBackup Web UI Administrator's Guide.

Note:

For managing hosted applications, you need the Manage Assets and Manage Protection Plans permissions.

Deploy Snapshot Manager

Install Snapshot Manager in your environment.

See Add a Snapshot Manager.

Review Snapshot Manager and NetBackup limitations.

See Limitations and considerations.

 

Register the Snapshot Manager in NetBackup.

See the NetBackup Snapshot Manager Install and Upgrade guide.

Add a configuration

All the supported cloud providers are displayed in the web UI.

You need to add the cloud account (configure the cloud plug-in) for the cloud provider you need. You can create multiple configurations for each provider.

See Add a cloud provider for a Snapshot Manager.

Asset discovery

NetBackup retrieves the cloud assets pertaining to the cloud accounts that are configured in NetBackup. Assets are populated in NetBackup asset DB.

By default, asset discovery happens every 2 hours and is configurable.

In the case of applications, you can set a discovery interval between 15 minutes to 45 minutes.

See Discover assets on Snapshot Manager.

Create a protection plan

Create a protection plan. A protection plan is used to schedule backup start windows.

See the NetBackup Web UI Administrator's Guide.

You can also configure the protection plan for snapshot replication. See Configure AWS snapshot replication.

Choose to protect a virtual machine, application, or volume

For each cloud provider, a list of discovered assets is displayed. Add the assets to a protection plan.

See the NetBackup Web UI Administrator's Guide.

You can also choose to protect application using the application-consistent snapshots. See Protect applications in-cloud with application-consistent snapshots.

Recover cloud assets

Troubleshooting

See Troubleshoot cloud workload protection issues.