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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide
  3. Configuring backups with legacy SQL Server policies using clients and batch files
  4. Performing user-directed backups of SQL Server databases
  5. Performing user-directed backups of SQL Server database filegroups
Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide

Performing user-directed backups of SQL Server database filegroups

More information is available on how to use read-write and read-only filegroups in your backup strategy.

See Performing user-directed backups of read-write filegroups.

See Performing user-directed backups of read-only filegroups.

To back up a database filegroup

  1. Open the NetBackup MS SQL Client interface.
  2. Select the host and instance you want to access.

  3. Select File > Backup SQL Server objects.
  4. In the Backup Microsoft SQL Server Objects dialog box, in the left pane, expand the instance name.
  5. Select a database whose filegroups you want to back up.
  6. In the right pane, select one or more filegroups that you want to back up.
  7. Select the backup options.
  8. Click Backup.

    To view the progress of the backup, select File > View status.

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Selecting the SQL Server host and instance

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