This guide describes how to administer Unitrends backup and recovery solutions using the current User Interface (UI). If you are using the legacy UI, see the Legacy Recovery-Series and UEB Administrator's Guide. For UI considerations, see Which UI should I use? in the Recovery-Series and UEB Upgrade Guide.
Before getting started with this guide, you must deploy your appliance and configure network settings. For deployment instructions, see the following resources:
• | Quick Start Guide for Recovery-Series Appliances |
• | UEB Deployment Guide for VMware |
• | UEB Deployment Guide for Hyper-V |
• | UEB Deployment Guide for Citrix XenServer |
• | UEB Deployment Guide for Installable Software |
This guide is intended for administrators and technical personnel responsible for configuring and administering Unitrends appliances, and assumes intermediate to advanced computer skills. Procedures and considerations in this guide follow best practices and requirements for the successful administration and configuration of your Unitrends backup and recovery solution.
Procedures in this guide cover supported features for Recovery-Series appliances, Unitrends Enterprise Backup (UEB) editions, and Unitrends Free editions.
Supported features vary by appliance type and edition. To view supported features for your appliance, consult the following resources at Unitrends.com:
• | Unitrends Recovery-Series Features |
• | Recovery-Series Appliance Family Datasheet |
• | Unitrends Enterprise Backup (UEB) Editions |
All procedures are run from the appliance UI, unless otherwise specified. Elements in the UI are dynamic and display according to the appliance edition, environment, and type of data. Access the UI with a Firefox or Chrome Internet browser. Internet Explorer is not supported.
This guide provides conceptual, procedural, and referential information for the administration of your Unitrends appliance. Unitrends recommends familiarizing yourself with this information before configuring and operating your appliance.
• | Overviews of features and instructions include considerations, requirements, and prerequisite information to assist in planning an effective protection strategy. |
• | Procedural information provides step-by-step instructions on performing backup and recovery operations. Instructions follow best practices for successful configuration and administration of your Unitrends data protection and recovery solution. See Backup Administration and Procedures for instructions on performing, monitoring, and managing backup and backup copy jobs. For recovering backups, see the appropriate procedure for the backup type: |
– | Host-level — See Recovering Host-level Backups. |
– | Asset-level — See Recovering Asset-level Backups. |
– | Applications — See Recovering Application Backups. |
– | NAS — See Recovering NAS Backups. |
– | iSeries — See Recovering iSeries Backups. |
• | Cross-references and links throughout this guide provide access to additional sources of information and assistance. |
This guide uses some special typographical effects to convey certain information. Review the following for additional information:
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The following table describes the terms and acronyms commonly used in this document.
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Added disk |
Applies to UEB on VMware, Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer appliances only. Virtual disk storage created on the UEB VM's hypervisor that is added to the appliance to store backups. Also called attached disk storage. |
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Agent |
Unitrends software installed on machines you wish to protect with asset-level backups. |
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Appliance |
The Unitrends system that backs up and recovers data. Appliance can refer to:
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Asset |
Physical and virtual machines, databases, and applications protected by the Unitrends appliance. Equivalent to the legacy term client. Note: The appliance automatically detects the virtual machines and applications on the virtual hosts and physical assets you add to the appliance. |
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Backup copy |
Copy of a backup that is stored off-site. You can copy your backups to the following types of targets: Unitrends Cloud, a secondary Unitrends appliance, Cloud storage (managed by Amazon, Google, or Rackspace), disks, NAS devices, and other media. Important! Unitrends recommends having a second copy of your backups on one of these targets in order to recover from a disaster. Equivalent to these legacy terms:
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Backup group |
The appliance organizes backups into groups to manage dependencies. A backup group contains a full backup and any subsequent incrementals and differentials. A backup group always starts with a full backup. |
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Backup mode |
A backup's mode determines what data to include in the backup. Example modes: full, incremental, and differential. |
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Backup strategy |
Combination of backups and backup copies used to protect assets. |
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Dashboard |
A summary of the appliance’s status with topic-specific tiles that capture at-a-glance data for various aspects of the appliance. |
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Deduplication |
Specialized data compression technique that eliminates duplicate data blocks. |
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External storage |
Applies to backup storage for UEB on VMware, Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer appliances only. SAN or NAS storage that is connected directly to the UEB VM over the iSCSI, CIFS, or NFS protocol. Note: SAN or NAS storage can also be used to store backup copies. This is supported on Recovery-Series and UEB appliances. |
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Global Options toolbar |
Toolbar across the top of the user interface that includes several menus to quickly edit global options, perform administrative tasks, and access additional resources. |
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Initial backup storage |
Applies to UEB on VMware, Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer appliances only. Storage you attach to the UEB VM that is used to store appliance configuration settings and backups. The initial backup storage must be 170GB - 64TB in size. |
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Initial disk |
Applies to UEB on VMware, Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer appliances only. 100GB disk used to create the UEB VM. While installing the EXE or OVA, you select a datastore on the ESXi host that the installer uses to create this disk. |
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Instant Recovery (IR) |
Process that recovers a failed or corrupted virtual machine or Windows physical machine in minutes. |
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Job |
Procedures performed to protect assets. Multiple job types exist, all of which can be monitored from the Active Jobs tile while in progress. |
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Protected asset |
Any physical machine, virtual machine, or application protected with Unitrends backups. Equivalent to the legacy term client. |
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Recovery object |
Disk image created on the backup appliance during instant recovery or during file-level recovery from a host-level backup. |
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Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) |
Desired number of recovery points. |
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Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) |
Desired speed of recovery. |
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Replica |
Virtualized copy of an asset that can immediately assume the role of that asset in case of failure. Created by performing instant recovery. |
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Resources |
Amount of space, bandwith, disk space, memory, etc, consumed by the job or object. |
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System load |
Amount of resources being used by the system at any given time. |
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Tile |
Topic-based sections of the dashboard. |
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Type |
Description of both a function (backup, recover) and the storage media, such as attached virtual disk. For example, an attached disk configured as backup storage. |
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UEB VM |
Applies to UEB on VMware, Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer appliances only. Virtual machine created either by running the UEB EXE installer or by deploying the UEB OVA file. |
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Virtual Failover Client (VFC) |
Virtual replica created during instant recovery of a failed Windows asset that can immediately assume the role of the original client in the event of a disaster. |
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Windows Instant Recovery (WIR) |
Temporary solution for rapid recovery of a failed Windows asset. Creates a virtual replica of the asset that can immediately assume the role of the original in the event of a disaster. |