Perform backup now

Using this option you can create a one-time backup of the selected asset. This backup does not affect any future or scheduled backups.

Note the following:

For incremental backup of Azure SQL databases, GCP SQL Server, and AWS RDS Oracle, NetBackup performs a full backup even if a protection plan with backup type differential incremental protects the asset.
For archive redo log type schedules, NetBackup takes full backup for backup now, irrespective of what you specified in the protection plan.
For Redshift cluster, AWS DocumentDB, and AWS Neptune assets the backup now option is not available. You can use the Manual backup option in the policy, to initiate a backup.

To perform a backup now

On the left, click Workloads > Cloud.
To back up AWS RDS supported database assets, click the Applications tab. For other PaaS assets, click the PaaS tab.
Note:
You can see and protect the user-created databases. The system databases are not shown and protected, as these databases need the cloud provider's superuser privilege to perform backup and restore.
Select the asset, then click Add protection.
Select the required protection plan, then click Start backup.
You can view the status of the backup job in the Activity monitor.
The database agents access the database from within the media server (container, in case of NetBackup deployed in AKS and EKS environments), and perform NFS mount of the Universal share path on the media server (backup host).