Subscribing cloud assets to a NetBackup protection plan
You can subscribe a single asset or a group of assets to a protection plan. For example, you can create a plan to create weekly snapshots and assign the policy to all your database applications. Also, an asset can have more than one policy. For example ,in addition to weekly snapshots, you can assign a second policy to your database applications to take a snapshot once a month.
NetBackup supports homogenous cloud asset subscriptions. While subscribing an asset to a protection plan, the cloud provider of the asset must be the same as the cloud provider defined in the protection plan.
Before you proceed, ensure that you have sufficient privileges to assign assets to a protection plan from the NetBackup Web UI.
To subscribe cloud assets to a protection plan
- Sign in to the NetBackup Web UI.
- From the left navigation pane, click Cloud and then select the Applications tab.
The Application tab displays a list of assets that you can protect.
- On the Applications tab, search and select the asset that you wish protect and then click Add Protection.
For example, to protect Microsoft SQL, you can select a SQL instance, a standalone database, or an Availability Group (AG) database.
Note:
If instance level SQL server backup is selected, only the databases that are online are included in the snapshot. The snapshot does not include databases that are offline or in an erroneous state.
- On the Choose a protection plan panel, search and select the appropriate protection plan and then click Protect.
Verify that on the Applications tab, the Protected by column for the selected asset displays the protection plan that you just assigned. This indicates that the asset is now being protected by the configured protection plan.
The backup jobs should automatically get triggered as per the schedule defined in the plan. You can monitor the backup jobs from the Activity monitor pane.
For more detailed information on how to subscribe assets to a protection plan, refer to the NetBackup Web UI Backup Administrator's Guide.