Ripro Backup (Legato) TIC - Installation Guide

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Customize Setup
Sliding Backup

• Creating a Policy
• Creating a Sliding Backup Schedule
• Creating Clients for a Sliding Schedule
• Creating Groups for Different Full and Incremental Start Time
• Setup Clients for Different Full and Incremental Start Time

To create a browse/retention policy:

1. From the main menu bar, choose Customize, then choose Policies.

The Policies dialog window now appears.

2. To create a new policy, click the Create button.
3. Enter a name for the policy in the Name text entry field.
4. Select a period for the policy. In this example, it should be 2 weeks.
5. For the Number of periods field, use the Up/Down arrow symbols to select 2 to indicate that any index entry is automatically removed from the on line index after two weeks.
6. Click Apply to execute the selections.

• This newly created policy is now available in the client’s window and can be selected as both a Browse Policy and a Retention Policy.

A sliding backup schedule enables you to perform a part of the full backup and the incremental backup every day. This schedule is implemented in those instances where there is no available time to perform a complete weekly backup in one day (e.g. the plant works every day including weekends).

Creating a sliding backup schedule means:

• Creating a full daily backup schedule plus daily incremental schedule for each day of the week (i.e., 7 schedules + 1 incremental).
• Creating a client for each day of the week (i.e., a client for each schedule) = 7 +1 client.
• Each client is allocated a set of filesystems that represent 1/7 of all dataVolumes to be backed up (in other words, they represent 1/7 of a complete full backup).
• Creating a client for daily incremental backup.

To Create Clients for a Sliding Schedule:

1. Choose Clients from the menu bar and then choose Client Setup.

The Clients dialog window is now displayed.

2. The Clients text field displays the server name.

This must be selected for each new schedule.

3. Press the Create button.
4. In the Name field, type in the name of the client (equals the server name) that is to be created, in this case, ripro1.
5. At the Schedule text field, select the triangular indicator to display a list of schedules, then select the schedule you require.

For a sliding schedule, there should be 7 schedules, each representing a weekly backup for a specific day, e.g., Full on Sunday, Full on Monday etc.

At the Browse policy text field, a list of policies can be similarly displayed.

The recommended setting is 2 weeks.

At the Retention policy text field, a list of policies can be similarly displayed.

The recommended setting is 2 weeks, it cannot be less than the Browse policy setting.

At the Directive text field, a list of policies can be similarly displayed.

The recommended policy is Unix standard directives.

Note: Do not use the Unix with Compression Directives option due to hardware compression, which is default.

6. Check the Group checkbox required and verify that the default check box is not checked (e.g., Daily Incremental, Skip Sat, Full on Monday, Full on Sunday).
7. The Save set text field must be set to the appropriate client filesystem(s) for the selected NetWorker client.

For each day client, a list of all dataVolumes to be backed up should be shown (like in df command) and then divided up into 7 sets (each set representing a 1/7 of a weekly full backup plus the incremental backup).

For Daily Incremental, a /dataVolumes/* should be selected.

To create a group for each schedule and to adjust the start time accordingly:

1. Choose Customize from the main menu bar and then choose Groups.
2. To create a new group, select Create.
3. Type in the name of the group in the Name text field (e.g., Daily Incremental, Skip Sat, Full on Monday, Full on Sunday).
4. Set Autostart to enabled.
5. Set the Start time according to your requirements.
6. Select Apply.
7. Create a second group (e.g., Full on Sat, Skip Incr), and set the Start time accordingly. Ensure that Autostart is checked as Enabled.
8. Select Apply.
9. Choose Exit from the File menu to close this window.

1. Choose Clients from the menu bar, then choose Client Setup.
2. The Clients text field displays the server name.
3. Press the Create button.
4. In the Name field, type in the name of the client that is to be created, in this case, ripro1.
5. Now proceed to fill in the parameters for this client.
6. At the Schedule text field, select the triangular indicator to display a list of schedules, then select the schedule you require.

Note: Do not use the Unix with Compression Directives option due to hardware compression, which is default.

At the Browse policy text field, a list of policies can be similarly displayed.
The recommended setting is 2 weeks.

At the Retention policy text field, a list of policies can be similarly displayed.The recommended setting is a 2-week period; it cannot be less than the Browse policy setting.

At the Directive text field, a list of policies can be similarly displayed.The recommended policy is Unix standard directives.

7. Check the Group checkbox required (e.g. Daily Incr, skip Sat) and verify that the default check box is not checked.
8. Set the Save set text field to the appropriate client filesystem(s) for the selected NetWorker client and change the default setting All to /dataVolumes/*, then press the Change button.
9. Select Apply when all settings are complete.
10. Repeat this procedure for the second group created.
11. Choose Exit from the File menu to return to the NetWorker Administration window.
12. Repeat this procedure to create the schedule Full Saturday, skip daily.

Select Apply when all settings are complete.

This procedure must be repeated until all the schedules have been set to cover a complete week.

13. Choose File and then choose Exit to return to the NetWorker Administration window.

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