Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide
- Introducing NetBackup for SQL Server
- Installing NetBackup for SQL Server
- Instance Management for SQL Server Intelligent Policies
- Viewing the SQL Server instances and instance groups in instance management
- About registering SQL Server instances
- Configuring SQL Server backups with SQL Server Intelligent Policy
- Configuring NetBackup for SQL Server
- Performing restores of SQL Server
- Redirecting a SQL Server database to a different host
- Restoring multistreamed SQL Server backups
- Protecting SQL Server data with VMware backups
- About protecting SQL Server data with VMware backups
- Using NetBackup for SQL Server with Snapshot Client
- Using copy-only snapshot backups to affect how differentials are based
- About SQL Server agent grouped backups (legacy SQL Server policies)
- Protecting SQL Server in high availability (HA) environments
- About using NetBackup to protect SQL Server availability groups
- About protecting the preferred replica in a SQL Server availability group (legacy backup policies)
- About protecting a specific node in a SQL Server availability group
- About NetBackup for SQL Server with database mirroring
- Backup and recovery concepts
- Overview of SQL Server backup and recovery concepts
- About recovery factors for SQL Server
- Using NetBackup for SQL Server with multiple NICs
- Configuring backups with legacy SQL Server policies using clients and batch files
- About using batch files with NetBackup for SQL Server
- About schedule properties
- Backing up read-only filegroups
- Performing user-directed operations with dbbackex
- Using bplist to retrieve a list of SQL Server backups
- SQL Server backups and restores in an SAP environment (legacy SQL Server policies)
- About SQL Server backups and restores in an SAP environment
- Troubleshooting
- About debug logging for SQL Server troubleshooting
- Disaster recovery of a SQL Server
- Appendix A. Sample batch files
- About sample backup batch files for legacy SQL Server policies
- About sample restore batch files
- About sample backup batch files for legacy SQL Server policies
- Appendix B. Multiplexed backups
- Appendix C. Register authorized locations
Backing up read-write filegroups
When you separate read-only and read-write filegroups in your backup strategy, you can reduce total media usage and the total time you spend on backup operations. More information is available on backing up read-only filegroups.
Note:
Immediately back up any filegroup when you change it from read-write to read-only.
To back up read-write filegroups
- Open the NetBackup MS SQL Client interface.
- Select File > Backup SQL Server objects.
- In the Backup Microsoft SQL Server Objects dialog box, in the left pane, select the database instance.
- In the right pane, select one or more databases that you want to back up.
Select the Type of Backup, as follows:
To perform a full backup of the read-write filegroups, select Read-write filegroups.
To perform a differential backup of the read-write filegroups, select Differential on read-write filegroups.
- Select the backup options.
- From the Backup script group, select Save.
- Click Backup.
Note the location where the batch file is saved. This batch file is added to the policy that backs up the read-write filegroups.
- Open the NetBackup Administration Console.
- Create a backup policy for read-write filegroups.
Create a Full Backup schedule with the wanted retention period.
Add the batch file that you created to the backup selections list.
- (Optional) Manually back up the read-write filegroups.
If you do not perform a manual backup at this time, the backup runs automatically through the schedule you created in step 10.