Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide
- About NetBackup cloud storage
- About the cloud storage
- About the cloud storage vendors for NetBackup
- About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type
- Amazon S3 cloud storage vendors certified for NetBackup
- Amazon S3 storage type requirements
- Amazon S3 cloud storage provider options
- Amazon S3 cloud storage options
- Amazon S3 advanced server configuration options
- Amazon S3 credentials broker details
- About private clouds from Amazon S3-compatible cloud providers
- About Amazon S3 storage classes
- Amazon virtual private cloud support with NetBackup
- About protecting data in Amazon for long-term retention
- Protecting data using Amazon's cloud tiering
- About NetBackup character restrictions for Amazon S3 cloud connector
- About Microsoft Azure cloud storage API type
- About OpenStack Swift cloud storage API type
- Configuring cloud storage in NetBackup
- Before you begin to configure cloud storage in NetBackup
- Configuring cloud storage in NetBackup
- Cloud installation requirements
- Scalable Storage properties
- Cloud Storage properties
- About the NetBackup CloudStore Service Container
- Deploying host name-based certificates
- Deploying host ID-based certificates
- About data compression for cloud backups
- About data encryption for cloud storage
- About key management for encryption of NetBackup cloud storage
- About cloud storage servers
- About object size for cloud storage
- About the NetBackup media servers for cloud storage
- Configuring a storage server for cloud storage
- Changing cloud storage server properties
- NetBackup cloud storage server properties
- About cloud storage disk pools
- Configuring a disk pool for cloud storage
- Saving a record of the KMS key names for NetBackup cloud storage encryption
- Adding backup media servers to your cloud environment
- Configuring a storage unit for cloud storage
- About NetBackup Accelerator and NetBackup Optimized Synthetic backups
- Enabling NetBackup Accelerator with cloud storage
- Enabling optimized synthetic backups with cloud storage
- Creating a backup policy
- Changing cloud storage disk pool properties
- Managing Certification Authorities (CA) for NetBackup Cloud
- Monitoring and Reporting
- Operational notes
- Troubleshooting
- About unified logging
- About legacy logging
- NetBackup cloud storage log files
- Enable libcurl logging
- NetBackup Administration Console fails to open
- Troubleshooting cloud storage configuration issues
- NetBackup Scalable Storage host properties unavailable
- Connection to the NetBackup CloudStore Service Container fails
- Cannot create a cloud storage disk pool
- Cannot create a cloud storage
- Data transfer to cloud storage server fails in the SSL mode
- Amazon GovCloud cloud storage configuration fails in non-SSL mode
- Data restore from the Google Nearline storage class may fail
- Backups may fail for cloud storage configurations with Frankfurt region
- Backups may fail for cloud storage configurations with the cloud compression option
- Fetching storage regions fails with authentication version V2
- Troubleshooting cloud storage operational issues
- Cloud storage backups fail
- Stopping and starting the NetBackup CloudStore Service Container
- A restart of the nbcssc (on legacy media servers), nbwmc, and nbsl processes reverts all cloudstore.conf settings
- NetBackup CloudStore Service Container startup and shutdown troubleshooting
- bptm process takes time to terminate after cancelling GLACIER restore job
- Handling image cleanup failures for Amazon Glacier vault
- Cleaning up orphaned archives manually
- Restoring from Amazon Glacier vault spans more than 24 hours for single fragment
- Restoring from GLACIER_VAULT takes more than 24 hours for Oracle databases
- Troubleshooting failures due to missing Amazon IAM permissions
- Restore job fails if the restore job start time overlaps with the backup job end time
About data compression for cloud backups
In NetBackup, you can compress your data before you send it to cloud storage server.
You can enable data compression on the NetBackup media server while you configure your cloud storage server using the Cloud Storage Server Configuration Wizard.
See Configuring a storage server for cloud storage.
Note:
After you have enabled the data compression during the cloud storage configuration, you cannot disable it.
NetBackup media servers that are older than the 7.7.3 version do not support data compression. Therefore, if you have selected an older media server while you configure the cloud storage server, the compression option does not appear on the Cloud Storage Server Configuration Wizard.
NetBackup uses a third-party library, LZO Pro, with compression level 3. The bptm logs provide information of the compression ratio of your data after the backup is taken in the cloud storage.
NetBackup compresses the data in chunks of 256 KB.
NetBackup Accelerator and True Image Restore (TIR) with move detection is supported with compression.
The backup data is compressed before it is transmitted to the cloud storage server. If both the compression and the encryption options are selected, the data is compressed before it is encrypted.
Data compression reduces the backup time and the data size based on how much the data is compressible. Although you may notice reduced bandwidth utilization when you compare it with the data without compression.
Performance of the data compression is reduced, if the data is incompressible. Therefore, Veritas recommends not to enable compression for backing up incompressible data such as policy data and so on.
Veritas recommends not to use the same bucket with storage servers of different types.
You must not use client-side compression along with storage server-side compression.
You cannot change the compression configuration settings (enable/disable) after the storage server is created.