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  1. Home
  2. NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide
  3. Protecting PaaS assets
  4. Steps to protect PaaS assets
  5. Protecting PaaS assets in Azure
NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide

Protecting PaaS assets in Azure

Follow these steps to protect your PaaS assets in Azure. The "Applicable to?" column shows for which database or environment a particular step is required. The Steps column gives you the links to the steps that you need to perform. Ensure that you perform each step completely before you proceed to the next step.

The steps that are applicable to all databases are mandatory steps. You need to perform the database-specific steps only when you protect that database.

Table: Steps to protect PaaS assets in Azure

Step no

Applicable to?

Steps

1

All databases

Review the prerequisites for NetBackup PaaS protection.

Prerequisites for protecting PaaS assets

Azure Managed Instance databases

For Azure Managed Instance databases, consider these prerequisites and configure the required permissions.

Protecting Azure Managed Instance databases

2

All databases

Consider the limitations and considerations of NetBackup protection for the databases that you want to protect.

Limitation and considerations

3

All databases

Install the native client utilities. Each native client utility supports a set of databases. You can find the list of supported databases for each utility in the relevant sections.

Installing the native client utilities

4

All databases

Configure storage for different NetBackup deployments.

Configuring storage for different deployments

5

All databases

Configure the storage server for instant access.

Configuring the storage server for instant access

6

All databases

NetBackup uses the NetBackup Snapshot Manager component to provide protection to the PaaS databases. Make sure that you do the following:

  • Install and configure NetBackup Snapshot Manager.

  • Install and configure the Azure plug-in for NetBackup Snapshot Manager.

  • Configure the required permissions for Azure in the NetBackup Snapshot Manager.

See the NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager for Cloud Install and Upgrade Guide for more details.

7

When NetBackup is deployed in an AKS cluster.

Enable backup and restore in AKS.

Enabling backup and restore in Kubernetes

8

MySQL and MariaDB databases

Enable binary logging.

Enabling binary logging for MySQL and MariaDB databases

9

All databases

Consider Auto Image Replication (AIR) for extra protection.

About Auto Image Replication for PaaS workloads

10

Azure SQL Server and Azure SQL Managed Instance

Consider using incremental backups for better backup performance.

Protecting PaaS assets in AWS

11

Azure MySQL server

Configure incremental backups for better backup performance.

Configuring incremental backups for Azure MySQL server

12

All databases

  1. Discover your assets.

    Discovering PaaS assets

  2. View your assets.

    Viewing PaaS assets

13

All databases

Manage credentials for your assets.

Managing PaaS credentials

14

All databases

Add protection to your assets.

Add protection to PaaS assets

15

All databases

Perform backup now, as required.

Perform backup now

16

All databases

Recover PaaS assets.

Recovering PaaS assets

17

All databases

View troubleshooting steps, if required.

Troubleshoot PaaS workload protection and recovery issues

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