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NetBackup™ for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2024-09-30

Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.5)

Detailed features for NetBackup for SQL Server

Table: NetBackup for SQL Server features

Feature	Description
NetBackup integration	Full integration with the NetBackup primary server and media manager. Job monitoring from the primary server.
Integration with NetBackup role-based access control (RBAC)	The NetBackup web UI provides RBAC roles to control which NetBackup users can manage SQL Server operations in NetBackup. The user does not need to be a NetBackup administrator to manage SQL Server operations. However, the user still must be a member of the Windows administrator group and have the SQL Server "sysadmin" role.
SQL Server Intelligent Policy and protection plans	The following benefits are included: Use an intelligent policy or single protection plan to protect the following: Multiple SQL Server instances, instance databases, availability groups, or availability databases. Instances can be spread over multiple clients. Include a full, differential, and transaction log backup in the same protection plan or policy. Schedule frequent backups of transaction logs. You are not required to know SQL Server commands or to write and use batch files. Instead, this feature automatically generates the batch files at run-time.
Management of SQL Server assets	NetBackup automatically discovers SQL Server instances and availability groups in the environment. You can also perform manual discovery. After instances or replicas are registered, the SQL Server workload administrator can protect the SQL Server assets with a policy or a protection plan.
Authentication and credentials	SQL Server protection plans and SQL Server Intelligent Policy support the following: Windows authentication Windows Active Directory authentication With the proper configuration, you do not have to run the NetBackup service account as a privileged SQL Server user on the client.
Backup and restore features	The following features are available for backups and restores with the NetBackup web UI: Backups are managed entirely by the NetBackup server from a central location. Administrators can schedule automatic, unattended backups for instances on local or remote hosts across the network. The web UI provides recovery points from which you can easily perform various recovery operations. If instant access is configured, you can also create an instant access database from a recovery point. Note: SQL Server recovery with the web UI requires that the SQL Server client is at version 8.3 or later. The NetBackup MS SQL Client supports the backup of databases, files, filegroups, transaction logs. Backup schedules for full, differential, or transaction log backups. Manual backups and copy-only backups. Backups of only read-write filegroups. This feature is available with policy-based backups. Support for high availability (HA) environments, including SQL Server clusters and availability groups. A SQL Server administrator can browse backups and select the ones to restore. Restore SQL Server objects to different locations (redirected restores). Ability to use multiple stripes during a backup. Tuning options that can improve the performance of backups.
Stream-based backups and restores	Stream-based backup and restore of SQL Server objects with SQL Server's high-speed virtual device interface.
Snapshot backups and instant access databases	NetBackup can perform backups of SQL Server with snapshot methodology. Backups with policies also offer off-host backups, Instant Recovery, and backups with a hardware provider. You can also create an instant access database from a NetBackup backup image. The database is available almost instantaneously, achieving a near-zero recovery time objective. NetBackup mounts the database's snapshot directly on the backup storage device and treats the snapshot as a normal database.
Support for VMware backups that protect SQL Server	VMware protection plans and VMware intelligent policies offer support for application-consistent, full backups of VMware computers using snapshots. The VMware intelligent policy also supports Replication Director (RD) snapshots. Use of NetBackup Accelerator can increase the speed of backups.
NetBackup encryption	(Backups with policies) When encryption is enabled, NetBackup encrypts the backup for the instances or the clients that are listed in the policy.
Batch file-based SQL Server policies	Support for the backup policies that use batch files and a list of clients.
Additional restore options with the NetBackup MS SQL Client interface	The NetBackup MS SQL Client interface supports additional restore operations that are not available in the web UI. These operations include filegroup restores, the restore of read-write and read-only filegroups, database file restores, and page-level restores.