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

Prerequisites for protecting PaaS assets

NetBackup lets you discover, protect, and restore PaaS assets across different cloud platforms for a variety of assets. This section details the supported platforms and databases.

Supported cloud providers

NetBackup enables you to protect PaaS assets with the following cloud providers:

  • Microsoft Azure

  • AWS

  • GCP

Supported databases for different providers

The following table lists the supported databases for each cloud provider.

Table: Supported databases by PaaS

Providers

Supported databases

Microsoft Azure

PostgreSQL, SQL Managed Instance, SQL, MariaDB, Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, and MySQL.

The following components are not supported:

Azure SQL - Elastic pool

Azure SQL Managed Instance - Azure Arc

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

Azure PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus) server group and Azure Arc enabled PostgreSQL Hyperscale

AWS

RDS SQL, RDS PostgreSQL, RDS MySQL, RDS MariaDB, RDS Aurora MySQL, RDS Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS for Oracle, Amazon Redshift, and DynamoDB.

GCP

Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL for SQL Server, and Cloud SQL for MySQL

Supported platforms

This section details the supported platforms for primary and media servers.

Table: Supported platforms for PaaS

NetBackup server

Supported platform

Primary

RHEL, SUSE, and Windows

Media

RHEL

Storage server

Universal share on underlying MSDP block storage or MSDP-Cloud storage STU

Required cloud provider permissions

The credential that you use to add the cloud providers must have the required permissions and privileges assigned, as mentioned in the NetBackup Snapshot Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide.

Supported ports

Here are the supported ports for different PaaS databases. Note that the AWS RDS workloads support custom ports along with the default port.

Table: Supported ports for PaaS

Database PaaS workload

Supported ports

Azure SQL Server

1433

Azure SQL Managed Instance

1433

Azure MySQL

3306

Azure PostgreSQL

5432

Azure MariaDB

3306

GCP PostgreSQL

5432

GCP MySQL

3306

AWS DynamoDB

NA

AWS RDS PostgreSQL

5432

AWS RDS MySQL

3306

AWS MariaDB

3306

AWS RDS AuroraDB Postgres

5432

AWS RDS AuroraDB MySQL

3306

AWS RDS SQL server

1433

Amazon RDS for Oracle

1521

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

443

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

10255

GCP SQL Server port

1433

Amazon Redshift

5439

Enabling binary logging for MySQL databases
Enabling backup and restore in Kubernetes

Before performing backup and restore operations on AKS and EKS deployments, you need to configure the parameter MEDIA_SERVER_POD_CIDR in the bp.conf file in the primary server pod. Specify its value as the subnets on which the media server pod is deployed. You can use comma-separated values. For example:

MEDIA_SERVER_POD_CIDR=10.0.0.0/8, 10.0.0.0/16