File system
In this section, we'll show you how to set up a file system (it can be a local or remote file system, but this example assumes that you have a dedicated disk that you're going to use as a backup destination with a local XFS file system)
Preparation
Log in to Storware Backup & Recovery Node and create the mount directory as in the example
/backupdestination
mkdir /backupdestination
List all existing disks and find your drive:
[root@vProtect01 ~]# fdisk -l | grep dev Disk /dev/sda: 32.2 GB, 32212254720 bytes, 62914560 sectors /dev/sda1 * 2048 1026047 512000 83 Linux /dev/sda2 1026048 62914559 30944256 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/sdc: 500 GB, 17179869184 bytes, 33554432 sectors Disk /dev/sdb: 21.5 GB, 21474836480 bytes, 41943040 sectors Disk /dev/mapper/centos-root: 28.5 GB, 28462546944 bytes, 55590912 sectors Disk /dev/mapper/centos-swap: 3221 MB, 3221225472 bytes, 6291456 sectors
Prepare a filesystem on it:
mkfs.xfs -K /dev/sdc
Add permission for the Storware Backup & Recovery user to access the directory
/backupdestination
we assume here that you use a separate file system than your staging space
as an alternative, you also can point Storware Backup & Recovery to use a subdirectory on the same file system as your staging space, i.e.
/vprotect_data/backups
(which you probably don't have to initialize at this point, as you may have already prepared it in the Staging space configuration, and you can just jump to the Web UI part in the next steps).
chown vprotect:vprotect -R /backupdestination
Add this line to the
/etc/fstab
file to automatically mount new the filesystem after reboot:/dev/sdc /backupdestination xfs defaults 0 0
or if you want to store backups on NFS share then it will look like this (where 10.50.1.28 is your host):
10.50.1.28:/example_nfs_share /backupdestination nfs defaults 0 0
Check if the fstab entry is OK and mount the filesystem:
mount /backupdestination
Log in to the Storware Backup & Recovery web UI.
Go to Backup Destinations.
Click on Create Backup Destination, choose a File system.
Type the name for the new backup destination, set the retention, and select at least one node configuration.
You have to decide if your backup destination is a separate entity from the staging space.
If the staging space is different than your backup storage destination:
In Storage paths type
/backupdestination
- this path will be used to mount the prepared file system (XFS) on top of the VDO volume.
If the staging space needs to be the same as your backup storage destination:
In Storage paths type
/vprotect_data/backups
, where you point to a subdirectory (i.e.backups
on your staging space path, i.e./vprotect_data).
Save the configuration.
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