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  2. NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide
  3. Protecting PaaS assets
  4. Installing the native client utilities
  5. Installing PostgreSQL client utility
NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide

Installing PostgreSQL client utility

You need to install this utility to protect the following databases:

  • Azure PostgreSQL Single and Flexible server

  • AWS RDS PostgreSQL

  • AWS RDS Aurora PostgreSQL

  • GCP PostgreSQL

The utility version must be the same or higher than the server version.

  • For server version 16, the recommended version of the PostgreSQL client utility is 16.9.

  • For server version 17, the recommended version of the PostgreSQL client utility is 17.5.

Server version 16

Bin

https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/16 /redhat/rhel-9-x86_64/postgresql16-16.9-3PGDG.rhel9.x86_64.rpm

Lib

https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/16 /redhat/rhel-9-x86_64/postgresql16-libs-16.9-3PGDG.rhel9.x86_64.rpm

Server version 17

Bin

https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/17 /redhat/rhel-9-x86_64/postgresql17-17.5-3PGDG.rhel9.x86_64.rpm

Lib

https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/17 /redhat/rhel-9-x86_64/postgresql17-libs-17.5-3PGDG.rhel9.x86_64.rpm

To install, do the following:

  1. Navigate to /usr/openv/dbpaas. If the dbpaas folder does not exist, run the command mkdir dbpaas to create the folder.
  2. Create the postgresql folder inside the /usr/openv/dbpaas folder. Run the command mkdir postgresql inside /usr/openv/dbpaas.
    • For server version 16, create the folder 16 inside the /usr/openv/dbpaas/postgresql folder. Run the command mkdir 16 inside the /usr/openv/dbpaas/postgresql folder.

    • For server version 17, create the folder 17 inside the /usr/openv/dbpaas/postgresql folder. Run the command mkdir 17 inside the /usr/openv/dbpaas/postgresql folder.

  3. Download the utilities as follows:
    • For server version 16, go to the 16 folder, and run the command:

      For bin

      wget https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/ yum/16/redhat/rhel-9-x86_64/postgresql16-16.9- 3PGDG.rhel9.x86_64.rpm

      For lib

      wget https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/ yum/16/redhat/rhel-9-x86_64/postgresql16-libs-16.9 -3PGDG.rhel9.x86_64.rpm

    • For server version 17, go to the 17 folder, and run the command:

      For bin

      wget https://download.postgresql.org/pub /repos/ yum/17/redhat/rhel-9-x86_64/postgresql17-17.5- 3PGDG.rhel9.x86_64.rpm

      For lib

      wget https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/ yum/17/redhat/rhel-9-x86_64/postgresql17-libs- 17.5-3PGDG.rhel9.x86_64.rpm

  4. To install, run the commands:

    For version 16 Lib:

    rpm2cpio /usr/openv/dbpaas/postgresql/16/postgresql16- libs-16.9-3PGDG.rhel9.x86_64.rpm | bsdtar -xv --strip-components=3 -f - -C /usr/openv/dbpaas/postgresql/16 'usr/pgsql-16/lib/libpq.so*'

    For version 16 Bin:

    rpm2cpio /usr/openv/dbpaas/postgresql/16/postgresql16-16.9-3PGDG.rhel9.x86_64.rpm | bsdtar -xv --strip-components=3 -f - -C /usr/openv/dbpaas/postgresql/16 'usr/pgsql-16/bin/pg_dump' 'usr/pgsql-16/bin/pg_dumpall' 'usr/pgsql-16/bin/psql' 'usr/pgsql-16/bin/pg_restore' 'usr/pgsql-16/bin/createdb' 'usr/pgsql-16/bin/dropdb'

    For version 17 Lib:

    rpm2cpio /usr/openv/dbpaas/postgresql/17/postgresql17-libs-17.5-3PGDG.rhel9.x86_64.rpm | bsdtar -xv --strip-components=3 -f - -C /usr/openv/dbpaas/postgresql/17 'usr/pgsql-17/lib/libpq.so*'

    For version 17 Bin:

    rpm2cpio /usr/openv/dbpaas/postgresql/17/postgresql17-17.5-3PGDG.rhel9.x86_64.rpm | bsdtar -xv --strip-components=3 -f - -C /usr/openv/dbpaas/postgresql/17 'usr/pgsql-17/bin/pg_dump' 'usr/pgsql-17/bin/pg_dumpall' 'usr/pgsql-17/bin/psql' 'usr/pgsql-17/bin/pg_restore' 'usr/pgsql-17/bin/createdb' 'usr/pgsql-17/bin/dropdb'

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