Once a backup copy target has been added to the appliance, you can monitor its status, such as amount of space used, from the Storage tile on the dashboard or from the Configure > Appliance > Backup Copy Targets page.
To view or modify a backup copy target, use the following procedures:
Note: Options vary by backup copy target type. Options not supported for your target type are disabled in the UI.
1 | On the Configure > Appliances page, select your appliance. |
2 | Click the Backup Copy Targets tab, and select a backup copy target. |
3 | Click Edit to change information in the fields, and click Save. |
Note: For Google, Amazon, and Rackspace cloud targets, you can increase or decrease the storage threshold from this dialog. These changes are applied to all subsequent backup copy jobs that write to the bucket. For more information about the storage threshold, see Managing the amount of data copied to a third-party cloud target.
Use this procedure to remove older backup copies and to reduce the amount of data that can be written to a Google, Amazon, or Rackspace cloud backup copy target. The new threshold does not result in immediate data reduction on the backup copy target. Instead, the next time the backup copy job runs, the appliance purges older backup copies to meet the new storage threshold and to make space for the new backup copy.
1 | On the Configure > Appliances page, select your appliance. |
2 | Click the Backup Copy Targets tab, select the cloud target on which you want to reduce the space used, and click Edit. |
3 | Adjust the storage threshold as desired and click Save. |
• | If you do not have a threshold, check the Enable storage threshold box, and adjust the Threshold value as desired. The threshold functions as a maximum amount of data the appliance can store on the backup copy target. |
• | If you need to adjust your existing threshold, decrease the Threshold value to the new maximum amount of data you want the appliance to store on the backup copy target. |
4 | On the Jobs > Job Manager page, select the job that writes to the backup copy target and click Edit. |
5 | Click Next. |
6 | Select to delete older backup data to free space if the storage threshold is reached and click Save. |
For Unitrends Cloud and Unitrends appliance hot backup copy targets, you can adjust the following options for optimal performance in your environment:
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Backup copy queue scheme |
The queue scheme determines the order in which the source appliance copies backups to the target:
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Backup copy concurrency | The Max Concurrent Backup Copies setting determines how many backups can be copied concurrently. While the default setting of two is adequate for most deployments, you may wish to increase the concurrency when you have enough WAN bandwidth to support more concurrent replications. | See To configure connection options. | |||||||||
Suspending backup copies | Use to stop sending backup copies from the source appliance. This option may become necessary when either your target appliance or the connection to your target becomes unavailable for an extended period of time. | See To configure connection options. | |||||||||
Backup copy bandwidth throttling |
If the WAN connection to your backup copy target is shared with general purpose Internet use during normal business hours, you may wish to throttle the amount of bandwidth that backup copies can use during these hours. Note: The bandwidth throttling setting limits the maximum amount of bandwidth the backup copy job can use. The amount of bandwidth available for the job is also effected by environmental factors, such as actual network throughput (which may be constrained by intermediate nodes between the source and target) and other backup copy job tasks, such as encryption and compression |
See To set bandwidth throttling. |
1 | Select Configure > Appliances. |
2 | Select the source backup appliance and click the Backup Copy Targets tab below. |
3 | Click Configure Bandwidth. |
4 | Choose the Connection Type that most closely matches your WAN bandwidth. |
5 | Click Add Schedule. |
6 | Choose a Throttle percentage and define the days of the week and times when this percentage will be used. |
The maximum bandwidth that backup copy jobs can use during the scheduled times is X percent of the Connection Type you chose in step 4 above.
7 | Click Save. |
8 | Repeat as necessary to create additional throttling schedules. |
1 | Select Configure > Appliances. |
2 | Select the source backup appliance and click Edit. |
3 | On the Backup Copy tab, modify settings. |
4 | Click Save. |
For tape drive, USB, and eSATA devices, you must initialize new tapes or drives before they can be used for the first time. This removes any existing data and formats the media. After you have written data to the media, you can also use this procedure to erase all backup copies.
Notes:
• | Use this procedures only if you wish to remove all backup data from the media. |
• | This procedure is not used for tape devices with autochangers. If your tape device has an autochanger, see To prepare tapes for use with an autochanger device. |
To initialize and erase cold backup copy media:
1 | Load the tape or drive(s) you want to initialize and erase. |
2 | On the Configure > Appliances page, select your appliance. |
3 | Click the Backup Copy Targets tab below. |
4 | Click Scan for Media, then select the target you wish to erase. |
5 | (Optional) Enter a Media Label. |
• | The label can contain up to 12 alphanumeric characters or underscores. |
• | If you do not enter a label, the appliances generates one for you. |
6 | Click Erase. |
7 | Click Confirm. The appliance permanently deletes any existing data and formats the media with the Unitrends file system. |
For tape autochangers, you must prepare new tapes before they can be used for the first time. The prepare option removes any existing data and formats the media. After you have written data to the media, you can also use this procedure to erase all backup copies.
Warning! Use this option with caution. Any existing data is permanently deleted from the media.
To prepare tape media:
1 | Load the tape(s) you want to prepare. |
2 | On the Configure > Appliances page, select your appliance. |
3 | Click the Backup Copy Targets tab below. |
4 | Click Scan for Media |
5 | Select the autochanger in the list. |
6 | Click Prepare. |
7 | (Optional) Enter a Media Label. |
• | The label can contain up to 12 alphanumeric characters or underscores. |
• | If you do not enter a label, the appliance generates one for you. |
8 | Enter the Slots whose tapes will be prepared. Enter slot numbers using a comma-separated list and/or ranges. Example: 1,2,3,5-8 |
9 | Click Prepare. The appliance permanently deletes any existing data and formats the media with the Unitrends file system. |
If you have run cold backup copies on one appliance, you can import reference information about those copies to a second appliance. Once reference data has been imported, you are able to recover those copies by using the second appliance. Use this procedure to import reference information for cold copies that were run on a different appliance:
1 | Connect the media containing the cold copies to the target appliance that will import the reference information. |
2 | Log in to the target appliance. |
3 | On the Configure > Appliances page, select the appliance. |
4 | Click the Backup Copy Targets tab below. |
5 | Click Scan for Media. |
6 | Select the offline target. |
7 | Click Enable. |
The appliance brings the target online and imports reference information for any backup copies that were not found on the appliance.
Use this procedure to mount the backup copy target.
Notes:
• | Backup copy jobs mount and unmount the target automatically. The target remains offline unless a copy job is running, but you can use this procedure as needed to mount the target manually. |
• | This procedure also imports reference information for any backup copies that were not found on the appliance. |
1 | On the Configure > Appliances page, select your appliance. |
2 | Click the Backup Copy Targets tab below. |
3 | Click Scan for Media. |
4 | Select the offline target. |
5 | Click Enable to bring the target online. |
Notes:
If you receive a message that the media has not been initialized, you must erase or prepare the media before you can enable the target. Erasing or preparing the media removes all backup copies stored on the media. For details, see one of the following:
• | To prepare tapes for use with an autochanger device for tape autochanger targets. |
• | To initialize and erase cold backup copy media for all other cold backup copy targets, including single drive tape devices. |
Use this procedure to remove a target that is not directly connected physically to the appliance. Applies to these backup copy target types: Unitrends Cloud, Unitrends appliance, third-party cloud, NAS, and SAN.
Note: To remove an iSCSI LUN from the Unitrends appliance, you must go to the SAN manager and indicate that the SAN should no longer use the LUN.
For targets that are directly connected to the appliance, such as eSATA, USB, and tape devices, you do not remove the target from the UI. Instead, physically disconnect the target.
1 | On the Configure > Appliances page, select your appliance. |
2 | Click the Backup Copy Targets tab, and select the target you wish to remove. |
3 | Click Remove. |