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NetBackup™ for Kubernetes Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2025-04-14

Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (11.0)

Features of NetBackup support for Kubernetes

Table: NetBackup for Kubernetes

Feature	Description
Auto NetBackup Kubernetes Agent Configuration	Adds Kubernetes cluster and configurations such as storage class and volume snapshot class, and data mover configuration can be done with automated deployment supported.
Integration with NetBackup role-based access control (RBAC)	The NetBackup web UI provides RBAC roles to control which NetBackup users can manage Kubernetes operations in NetBackup. The user does not need to be a NetBackup administrator to manage Kubernetes operations.
Licensing	Capacity-based licensing.
Protection plans	The following benefits are included: Use a single protection plan to protect multiple Kubernetes namespaces. The assets can be spread over multiple clusters. You are not required to know the Kubernetes commands to protect the Kubernetes assets.
Intelligent management of Kubernetes assets	NetBackup automatically discovers the namespaces, persistent volumes, persistent volume claims, and so on, in the Kubernetes clusters. You can also perform manual discovery. After the assets are discovered, the Kubernetes workload administrator can select one or more protection plans to protect them. Note: In case of Auto Image Replication (AIR), the imported namespace of target primary server displays imported time as Last Discovered time.
Kubernetes specific credentials	Kubernetes service accounts used to authenticate and manage the clusters.
Discovery Full discovery Incremental discovery	Discovery using Discover now option is always a full discovery. Discovery when a new cluster is added to the NetBackup is always a full discovery.  Once the Kubernetes cluster is added, auto discovery cycle is triggered to discover all the assets available on the Kubernetes cluster. The first auto discovery of the day is a full discovery and subsequent auto discoveries are incremental.
Backup features Snapshot only backups Backup from snapshot	The following features are available for backup: Backups are managed entirely by the NetBackup server from a central location. Administrators can schedule automatic, unattended backups for namespaces on different Kubernetes clusters. The NetBackup web UI supports backup and restore of namespaces from one interface. Backup schedule configuration for full backups. Manual backups and snapshot only backups. Resource throttling for each cluster to improve the performance of backups. NetBackup can perform backups of Kubernetes namespaces with snapshot methodology, achieving faster recovery time objectives.
Restore features Restore from snapshot Restore from backup copy	The following features are available for restore: Restore Kubernetes namespaces and persistent volumes to different locations. Restore to a different Kubernetes cluster flavor using restore from backup copy with parallel restore jobs.
Client side data deduplication support	Client side data deduplication support feature is enabled for Kubernetes. For more details, refer to the About client-side deduplication section in the NetBackup Deduplication Guide.
Auto Image Replication (AIR)	The backups that are generated in one NetBackup Kubernetes cluster can be replicated to storage in one or more target NetBackup domains. This also is referred to as AIR. The ability to replicate backups to storage in other NetBackup domains. The Auto Image Replication (A.I.R.) is supported for all schedule types.
Protection of Stateful applications	Kubernetes application using persistent volumes to maintain there states can be protected. Backup and restore of Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) of mode file system and/or block for the Container Storage Interface (CSI) providers which supports the following features: PVC snapshot capability PVC volume provisioning based on the Network File System (NFS) or other non-block storage Backup and restore of a namespace with mixed volumes (VolumeMode: Filesystem and Block) is supported for NetBackup 10.3 and later.
Import and verify	Import is a two step operation, the first step recreates the catalog entries for the backups that are on the specified media. Once the second phase import has been completed catalog entries for files were backed up by those images will be created. Verify: NetBackup can verify the contents of a backup by comparing its contents to what is recorded in the NetBackup catalog.
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) support for Red Hat platforms	NetBackup Kubernetes on Red Hat platform provides support to FIPS compliant communication.
Accelerator backup support for Kubernetes	NetBackup supports accelerator backup for Kubernetes workloads and it reduces the backup time.
Support for malware scan	NetBackup version 10.4 and later provides support for scanning Kubernetes assets for malware through the Kubernetes workload.
OpenShift Virtualization support for Kubernetes workload	NetBackup version 10.4.1 and later, provides backup and restore support for namespaces with one or more virtual machines running on Kubernetes clusters.