Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.1)
  1. About NetBackup cloud storage
    1.  
      New cloud features in NetBackup 8.1
    2.  
      About cloud storage features and functionality
    3.  
      About the catalog backup of cloud configuration files
    4.  
      About support limitations for NetBackup cloud storage
  2. About the cloud storage
    1.  
      About the cloud storage vendors for NetBackup
    2. About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type
      1.  
        Amazon S3 cloud storage vendors certified for NetBackup
      2.  
        Amazon S3 storage type requirements
      3.  
        Amazon S3 cloud storage provider options
      4.  
        Amazon S3 cloud storage options
      5.  
        Amazon S3 advanced server configuration options
      6.  
        Amazon S3 credentials broker details
      7.  
        About private clouds from Amazon S3-compatible cloud providers
      8.  
        About Amazon S3 storage classes
      9.  
        Amazon virtual private cloud support with NetBackup
      10. Protecting data in Amazon Glacier for long-term retention
        1.  
          Backing up data to Amazon Glacier
        2.  
          Restoring data from Amazon Glacier
      11.  
        Permissions required for Amazon IAM user
      12.  
        About NetBackup character restrictions for Amazon S3 cloud connector
    3. About EMC Atmos cloud storage API type
      1.  
        EMC Atmos cloud storage vendors certified for NetBackup
      2.  
        EMC Atmos storage type requirements
      3.  
        EMC Atmos cloud storage provider options
      4.  
        EMC Atmos advanced server configuration options
      5.  
        About private clouds from AT&T
    4. About Microsoft Azure cloud storage API type
      1.  
        Microsoft Azure cloud storage vendors certified for NetBackup
      2.  
        Microsoft Azure storage type requirements
      3.  
        Microsoft Azure cloud storage provider options
      4.  
        Microsoft Azure advanced server configuration options
    5. About OpenStack Swift cloud storage API type
      1.  
        OpenStack Swift cloud storage vendors certified for NetBackup
      2.  
        OpenStack Swift storage type requirements
      3.  
        OpenStack Swift cloud storage provider options
      4.  
        OpenStack Swift storage region options
      5.  
        OpenStack Swift add cloud storage configuration options
      6.  
        OpenStack Swift proxy settings
      7.  
        About Rackspace Cloud Files storage requirements
      8.  
        Rackspace storage server configuration options
      9.  
        About private clouds from Rackspace
  3. Configuring cloud storage in NetBackup
    1.  
      Before you begin to configure cloud storage in NetBackup
    2.  
      Configuring cloud storage in NetBackup
    3.  
      Cloud installation requirements
    4. Scalable Storage properties
      1.  
        Configuring advanced bandwidth throttling settings
      2.  
        Advanced bandwidth throttling settings
    5. Cloud Storage properties
      1.  
        Adding a cloud storage instance
      2.  
        Changing cloud storage host properties
      3.  
        Deleting a cloud storage host instance
    6. About the NetBackup CloudStore Service Container
      1.  
        NetBackup CloudStore Service Container security certificates
      2.  
        NetBackup CloudStore Service Container security modes
      3.  
        NetBackup cloudstore.conf configuration file
    7.  
      Deploying host name-based certificates
    8.  
      Deploying host ID-based certificates
    9.  
      About data compression for cloud backups
    10.  
      About data encryption for cloud storage
    11.  
      About key management for encryption of NetBackup cloud storage
    12.  
      About cloud storage servers
    13.  
      About object size for cloud storage
    14. About the NetBackup media servers for cloud storage
      1.  
        Using media server as NetBackup Cloud master host
    15. Configuring a storage server for cloud storage
      1.  
        KMS database encryption settings
      2.  
        Assigning a storage class to Amazon cloud storage
    16.  
      Changing cloud storage server properties
    17. NetBackup cloud storage server properties
      1.  
        NetBackup cloud storage server bandwidth throttling properties
      2.  
        NetBackup cloud storage server connection properties
      3.  
        NetBackup CloudCatalyst storage server properties
      4.  
        NetBackup cloud storage server encryption properties
    18.  
      About cloud storage disk pools
    19.  
      Configuring a disk pool for cloud storage
    20.  
      Saving a record of the KMS key names for NetBackup cloud storage encryption
    21.  
      Adding backup media servers to your cloud environment
    22. Configuring a storage unit for cloud storage
      1.  
        Cloud storage unit properties
      2.  
        Configure a favorable client-to-server ratio
      3.  
        Control backup traffic to the media servers
    23.  
      About NetBackup Accelerator and NetBackup Optimized Synthetic backups
    24.  
      Enabling NetBackup Accelerator with cloud storage
    25.  
      Enabling optimized synthetic backups with cloud storage
    26.  
      Creating a backup policy
    27. Changing cloud storage disk pool properties
      1.  
        Cloud storage disk pool properties
    28.  
      Managing Certification Authorities (CA) for NetBackup Cloud
  4. Monitoring and Reporting
    1.  
      About monitoring and reporting for cloud backups
    2.  
      Viewing cloud storage job details
    3.  
      Viewing the compression ratio
    4.  
      Viewing NetBackup cloud storage disk reports
    5.  
      Displaying KMS key information for cloud storage encryption
  5. Operational notes
    1.  
      NetBackup bpstsinfo command operational notes
    2.  
      Unable to configure additional media servers
    3.  
      Cloud configuration may fail if NetBackup Access Control is enabled
    4.  
      Deleting cloud storage server artifacts
  6. Troubleshooting
    1. About unified logging
      1.  
        About using the vxlogview command to view unified logs
      2.  
        Examples of using vxlogview to view unified logs
    2. About legacy logging
      1.  
        Creating NetBackup log file directories for cloud storage
    3.  
      NetBackup cloud storage log files
    4.  
      Enable libcurl logging
    5.  
      NetBackup Administration Console fails to open
    6. Troubleshooting cloud storage configuration issues
      1.  
        NetBackup Scalable Storage host properties unavailable
      2.  
        Connection to the NetBackup CloudStore Service Container fails
      3.  
        Cannot create a cloud storage disk pool
      4.  
        Cannot create a cloud storage
      5.  
        Data transfer to cloud storage server fails in the SSL mode
      6.  
        Amazon GovCloud cloud storage configuration fails in non-SSL mode
      7.  
        Data restore from the Google Nearline storage class may fail
      8.  
        Backups may fail for cloud storage configurations with Frankfurt region
      9.  
        Backups may fail for cloud storage configurations with the cloud compression option
      10.  
        Fetching storage regions fails with authentication version V2
      11.  
        nbcssc service does not start after installation in clustered environment
    7. Troubleshooting cloud storage operational issues
      1.  
        Cloud storage backups fail
      2.  
        Stopping and starting the NetBackup CloudStore Service Container
      3.  
        A restart of the nbcssc process reverts all cloudstore.conf settings
      4.  
        NetBackup CloudStore Service Container startup and shutdown troubleshooting

Protecting data in Amazon Glacier for long-term retention

To protect your data for long-term retention you can back up the data to Amazon (AWS) Glacier using NetBackup. Using NetBackup, you can create a storage server with Glacier storage class. During the backup process, NetBackup internally uses the Amazon's zero-day lifecycle policy to transition data to Glacier. AWS lifecycle policy is a lifecycle rule defined to transition objects to the Glacier storage class in 0 (zero) days after creation. The following diagram illustrates the configuration process:

To configure a cloud storage server for Amazon GLACIER storage class

  1. Configure the GLACIER storage class for amazon_glacier cloud storage server using the following command:

    ./csconfig cldinstance -as -in amazon.com -sts amazon_glacier -storage_class GLACIER

    For information on the command, see Veritas NetBackup Commands Reference Guide.

  2. Configure the Amazon GLACIER cloud storage server.

    See Configuring a storage server for cloud storage.

  3. Create a disk pool using the Amazon bucket for GLACIER storage.

  4. Create a backup policy.

    See Creating a backup policy.

Best practices

When you configure a storage server to transition data to Amazon Glacier, consider the following:

  • Ensure that Amazon Glacier is supported for the region to which the bucket belongs.

  • Ensure that the selected bucket does not have any existing Amazon lifecycle policy.

  • For restores, set the retrieval retention period to minimum 3 days.

  • You can reduce restore time by parallel restores. For this, you must backup using multi-streaming that creates multiple images at logical boundaries.

  • Workload Granular Revovery (GRT) or VMware Single File Restore (SFR), increases the timeout on the master, media, and client to more than 5 hours.

Limitations

Consider the following limitations:

  • NetBackup Accelerator feature is not supported for policies of the storage units that are created for Amazon Glacier. Do not select the Accelerator check box.

  • CloudCatalyst with Glacier is not supported.

  • When you run parallel restores from same set of data, critical info is displayed only for one restore job.

  • You can configure the GLACIER storage class only using the CLI.

  • During import of images:

    • Phase 1: Each image takes around 4 hours.

      The total image duration = Number of images X 4 hours (approx).

    • Phase 2: For images without TIR fragments:

      Time required for import = Number of fragments X 4 hours (approx).

Permissions

You must have the following permissions:

  • Life cycle policy related permissions:

    • s3:PutLifecycleConfiguration

    • s3:GetLifecycleConfiguration

  • Object tagging permissions

    • s3:PutObjectTagging

Note:

The bucket owner has these permissions, by default. The bucket owner can grant these permissions to others by writing an access policy.

More Information

Configuring a disk pool for cloud storage