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
Configuring a snapshot policy for SQL Server
These instructions describe how to configure a Snapshot Client policy. Optionally you can choose to perform an off-host backup. This topic only covers what is necessary to configure snapshot backups for a MS-SQL-Server policy.
See About SQL Server Intelligent Policies.
See Adding a new SQL Server legacy policy.
To configure a snapshot policy for SQL Server
- For SQL Server legacy policies, create a backup script (.bch file) using the NetBackup MS SQL Client.
- Open the policy you want to configure.
- Click the Attributes tab.
- From the Policy type list, select MS-SQL-Server.
- Select the Policy storage.
If database differentials, filegroup differentials, or transaction logs are included in the Backup Selections list of a policy that uses Snapshot Client, then NetBackup performs a stream-based backup. The selected storage unit is used. If a storage unit is not provided, then NetBackup uses the default storage unit for the server.
- Select Perform snapshot backups.
- Choose to have NetBackup select the snapshot method or select the snapshot method manually.
Perform one of the following:
By default, NetBackup chooses a snapshot method for you. If you have changed this setting and want NetBackup to choose the method automatically, click Snapshot Client Options. Then from the Snapshot method list, select auto.
To use a specific snapshot method, click Snapshot Client Options. From the Snapshot method list, select the method you want to use for this policy.
See the NetBackup Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide for details on how to select the snapshot method and automatic snapshot selection.
(Optional) To use an alternate client to reduce the processing load on the client, perform the following steps:
The alternate client must be the client that shares the disk array. This option may require additional configuration. See the NetBackup Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide.
Click Use alternate client and enter the name of the alternate client.
Note:
Use data mover is not a supported option for NetBackup for SQL Server.
- On the Instances and Databases tab, choose how you want to protect SQL Server:
(SQL Server Intelligent Policy) Choose Protect Instances or Protect instance groups.
If you choose the instances option, you can select either individual instances or databases.
(SQL Server legacy policies) Choose Clients for use with batch files.
(SQL Server Intelligent Policy) Add other policy information as follows:
Add schedules.
(Optional) Select specific filegroups or files that you want to back up. By default, NetBackup backs up an entire database.
(Optional) Make changes to any tuning parameters.
(SQL Server legacy policies) Add other policy information as follows:
Add schedules.
Add clients.
Add batch files to the backup selections list.
- Click OK to save the policy.