See the following topics to create backup jobs:
Before creating jobs, you must add the assets you wish to protect to the appliance, as described in Managing protected assets. We also recommend that you review the following to develop the best protection strategy for your environment:
• | Protection Overview, which covers backup modes, backup groups, and other general key concepts. |
• | Asset-level Backups Overview for the asset type you wish to protect, which covers requirements and other considerations. |
Any physical machine, virtual machine, or application you have added to the appliance is an asset you can select to include in the jobs you create. When creating a backup job, you first select the asset type you want to protect. Assets of this type are then available for selection in an inventory tree. Assets not matching the asset type you picked cannot be selected. To select an asset, click on its check box. In some cases, you must expand nodes in the tree to view the asset you wish to select. Assets display in the inventory tree as follows:
• | Each physical asset and virtual host displays as a top-level node. |
• | Each application displays as a sub-node under its physical host asset. Individual databases display under their application node. |
• | Each VM displays as a sub-node under its virtual host. |
Use these procedures to create backup jobs:
1 | Select Jobs > Create Job > Backup. |
2 | Select Agent-Based Assets in the What do you want to backup? list. |
3 | In the Inventory tree, check boxes to select the asset(s) you want to protect. |
To locate an asset by name, use the Search field below.
4 | (Optional) Click Edit to specify directories or files to include or exclude, and to specify commands to run pre- and/or post-backup. |
Note: Critical system volumes are required to recover the entire asset or to use the Windows Instant Recovery feature. Use care when omitting files from backup.
5 | Click Next. |
6 | Select Now or Create a Schedule to specify when you want this job to run. If creating a schedule, enter a unique job name. |
7 | Set remaining Job Details and Options as desired, then click Save: |
• | If you created a schedule, the job will run at the date and times specified. |
• | If you chose Now, the job is queued immediately. Click Active Jobs to view the running job. |
Note: To access newly added virtual machines, sync inventory before creating your job by clicking the options icon in the upper-right of the UI and selecting Inventory Sync.
1 | Select Jobs > Create Job > Backup. |
2 | Select VMware Assets in the What do you want to backup? list. |
3 | In the Inventory tree, expand the asset and check boxes to select virtual machines to protect. |
4 | (Optional) Click Edit to specify disks to exclude. Click Save to retain any changes. |
Note: Critical system volumes are required to recover the entire virtual machine. Use care when omitting disks from backup.
5 | Click Next. |
6 | Select Now or Create a Schedule to specify when you want this job to run. If creating a schedule, enter a unique job name. |
7 | Set remaining Job Details and Options as desired, then click Save: |
• | If you created a schedule, the job will run at the date and times specified. |
• | If you chose Now, the job is queued immediately. Click Active Jobs to view the running job. |
Note: To access newly added virtual machines, sync inventory before creating your job by clicking the options icon in the upper-right of the UI and selecting Inventory Sync.
1 | Select Jobs > Create Job > Backup. |
2 | Select Hyper-V Assets in the What do you want to backup? list. |
3 | In the Inventory tree, expand the asset and check boxes to select virtual machines to protect. |
To locate the asset by name, use the Search field below.
4 | Click Next. |
5 | Select Now or Create a Schedule to specify when you want this job to run. If creating a schedule, enter a unique job name. |
6 | Set remaining Job Details and Options as desired, then click Save: |
• | If you created a schedule, the job will run at the date and times specified. |
• | If you chose Now, the job is queued immediately. Click Active Jobs to view the running job. |
1 | Select Jobs > Create Job > Backup. |
2 | Select NAS in the What do you want to backup? list. |
3 | In the Inventory tree, check boxes to select the NAS assets to protect. |
To locate the asset by name, use the Search field below.
4 | (Optional) Click Edit to specify directories or files to include or exclude. Click Save to retain any changes. |
5 | Click Next. |
6 | Select Now or Create a Schedule to specify when you want this job to run. |
7 | Set remaining Job Details and Options as desired, then click Save: |
• | If you created a schedule, the job will run at the date and times specified. |
• | If you chose Now, the job is queued immediately. Click Active Jobs to view the running job. |
Note: To access newly added databases or storage groups, sync inventory before creating your job by clicking the options icon in the upper-right of the UI and selecting Inventory Sync.
1 | Select Jobs > Create Job > Backup. |
2 | Select Exchange in the What do you want to backup? list. |
3 | In the Inventory tree, expand the Exchange server and check boxes to select databases or storage groups to protect. |
To locate the asset by name, use the Search field below.
4 | Click Next. |
5 | Select Now or Create a Schedule to specify when you want this job to run. If creating a schedule, enter a unique job name. |
6 | Set remaining Job Details and Options as desired, then click Save: |
• | If you created a schedule, the job will run at the date and times specified. |
• | If you chose Now, the job is queued immediately. Click Active Jobs to view the running job. |
Note: To access newly added databases, sync inventory before creating your job by clicking the options icon in the upper-right of the UI and selecting Inventory Sync.
1 | Select Jobs > Create Job > Backup. |
2 | Select Oracle in the What do you want to backup? list. |
3 | In the Inventory tree, expand the Oracle server and check boxes to select databases to protect. |
To locate the asset by name, use the Search field below.
Note: If a Samba client is not installed, no databases will show as available for backup. The Oracle Dependency from the latest agent release must be installed to protect Oracle data.
4 | Click Next. |
5 | Select Now or Create a Schedule to specify when you want this job to run. If creating a schedule, enter a unique job name. |
6 | Set remaining Job Details and Options as desired. |
Note: For Oracle on Linux. If you are running an incremental forever schedule, you must also exclude Oracle database directories from journal tracking. See KB 3358 for details.
7 | Click Save: |
• | If you created a schedule, the job will run at the date and times specified. |
• | If you chose Now, the job is queued immediately. Click Active Jobs to view the running job. |
Note: To access newly added databases, sync inventory before creating your job by clicking the options icon in the upper-right of the UI and selecting Inventory Sync.
1 | Select Jobs > Create Job > Backup. |
2 | Select SQL in the What do you want to backup? list. |
3 | In the Inventory tree, expand the SQL server and check boxes to select databases to protect. |
To locate the asset by name, use the Search field below.
4 | Click Next. |
5 | Select Now or Create a Schedule to specify when you want this job to run. If creating a schedule, enter a unique job name. |
6 | Set remaining Job Details and Options as desired, then click Save: |
• | If you created a schedule, the job will run at the date and times specified. |
• | If you chose Now, the job is queued immediately. Click Active Jobs to view the running job. |
Note: To access a newly installed or newly started SharePoint farm, sync inventory before creating your job by clicking the options icon in the upper-right of the UI and selecting Inventory Sync.
1 | Select Jobs > Create Job > Backup. |
2 | Select SharePoint in the What do you want to backup? list. |
3 | In the Inventory tree, expand the SharePoint server and check the box to select the farm to protect. |
To locate the asset by name, use the Search field below.
4 | Click Next. |
5 | Select Now or Create a Schedule to specify when you want this job to run. If creating a schedule, enter a unique job name. |
6 | Set remaining Job Details and Options as desired. |
7 | Click Save: |
• | If you created a schedule, the job will run at the date and times specified. |
• | If you chose Now, the job is queued immediately. |
8 | Click Active Jobs to view the running job. |