About protecting cloud assets
Using NetBackup, you can now protect your in-cloud workloads. The cloud data protection framework leverages the Snapshot Manager infrastructure to drive faster proliferation of cloud providers. In NetBackup 8.3 and later, Snapshot Manager can protect assets in AWS, Azure, Azure Stack Hub, GCP, and from version 10.4 OCI cloud is also supported.
The following table describes the tasks.
Table: Configuring protection for cloud assets
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Before you begin, ensure that you have the appropriate permissions. | To manage and protect cloud assets in the web UI you must have the workload administrator role or similar permissions. The NetBackup security administrator can manage your role permissions at an individual asset level or at the account or subscription level, or at a cloud provider level. See the NetBackup Web UI Administrator's Guide. Note: For managing hosted applications, you need the Manage Assets and Manage Protection Plans permissions. |
Deploy Snapshot Manager Configure the Snapshot Manager |
Install Snapshot Manager in your environment. Review Snapshot Manager and NetBackup limitations. |
Register the Snapshot Manager in NetBackup. See the NetBackup Snapshot Manager Install and Upgrade guide. | |
Add a configuration | All the supported cloud providers are displayed in the web UI. You need to add the cloud account (configure the cloud plug-in) for the cloud provider you need. You can create multiple configurations for each provider. |
Asset discovery | NetBackup retrieves the cloud assets pertaining to the cloud accounts that are configured in NetBackup. Assets are populated in NetBackup asset DB. By default, asset discovery happens every 2 hours and is configurable. In the case of applications, you can set a discovery interval between 15 minutes to 45 minutes. |
Create a protection plan or policy | Create a protection plan or policy. A protection plan is used to schedule backup start windows. See the NetBackup Web UI Administrator's Guide. You can also configure the protection plan for snapshot replication. See Configure AWS snapshot replication. |
Choose to protect a virtual machine, application, or volume | For each cloud provider, a list of discovered assets is displayed. Add the assets to a protection plan. See the NetBackup Web UI Administrator's Guide. You can also choose to protect application using the application-consistent snapshots. See Protect applications in-cloud with application-consistent snapshots. |
Manage policies for cloud assets | Using the NetBackup Web UI, you can create policies that support cloud workloads types (IaaS and PaaS). The policies are applied on the workloads to protect the data that resides on the clients. |
Recover cloud assets |
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Support for malware scan before recovery | You can trigger malware scan of the selected files/folders for recovery as part of recovery flow from Web UI and decide the recovery actions based on malware scan results. |
Troubleshooting |