Backup and Recovery
Backup and Recovery 7.1
Backup and Recovery 7.1
  • Storware Backup & Recovery documentation
    • Table of Contents
  • Changelog
  • Overview
    • Main Features
    • Storware Backup and Recovery concepts
      • Support Matrix
      • Architecture
      • Components
      • Backup types
      • Typical Scenarios
    • Licensing
    • Product Life Cycle
  • Deployment
    • Component requirements
    • Supported platforms requirements
    • Sizing Guide
      • Small
      • Medium
      • Large
    • Installation
      • ISO-based installation
      • Quick Installation using all-in-one script
      • Installation using Ansible playbook
      • Installation with RPMs
      • Deployment in Microsoft Azure
      • Virtual Appliance
        • RHV/oVirt/OLVM Virtual Appliance
        • Citrix Hypervisor | XCP-ng Virtual Appliance
        • VMware Virtual Appliance
        • Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)
    • Initial Configuration
    • Backup Destinations
      • File System
        • Synthetic File System
          • XFS
          • DD Boost
        • isoLayer (Synthetic)
        • File system
          • Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO)
        • Catalogic Software vStor
      • Deduplication Appliances
        • Dell EMC Data Domain
        • Huawei OceanProtect
        • HPE StoreOnce
        • Exagrid
        • Neverfail HybriStor
      • Object Storage
        • Alibaba Cloud OSS
        • AWS S3 or S3-compatible
        • Ceph Rados Gateway
        • Cloudian S3
        • Wasabi
        • Google Cloud Storage
        • IBM Cloud Object Storage
        • Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
        • Nutanix Objects
        • OpenStack SWIFT
        • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage
        • Scality RING
      • Enterprise Backup Providers
        • Dell EMC Avamar
        • Dell EMC Networker
        • IBM Spectrum Protect
        • Micro Focus Data Protector
        • Veritas NetBackup
        • Rubrik Managed Volumes
      • Tape Pools
    • High Availability
      • 2 Node Cluster
      • 3 Node Cluster
    • Common tasks
      • Staging space configuration
      • Enabling HTTPS connectivity for nodes
      • LVM setup on Storware Backup & Recovery Node for disk attachment backup mode
      • Full versions of libvirt/qemu packages installation
      • SSH public key authentication
      • Enabling HTTP(S) Proxy for Storware Backup & Recovery
  • Protecting Virtual Environments
    • Virtual Machines
      • VMware vSphere/ESXi
      • Microsoft Hyper-V
      • Azure Stack HCI
      • Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)
      • Red Hat Openshift Virtualization
      • Red Hat Virtualization
      • oVirt
      • Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager
      • Oracle VM
      • Proxmox VE
      • KVM/Xen
      • OpenStack
      • OpenNebula
      • Virtuozzo
      • Verge
      • Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer)
      • XCP-ng
      • Huawei FusionCompute
      • HPE SimpliVity
      • SC//Platform
    • Cloud
      • Amazon EC2
      • GCP GCE
      • Azure Cloud
    • Containers
      • Kubernetes
      • Red Hat OpenShift
      • Proxmox VE
    • Backup & Restore
    • v2v migration
  • Protecting Microsoft 365
    • Microsoft 365 organization management
      • Configure Microsoft 365 access
      • Add Microsoft 365 organization manually
      • Add Microsoft 365 organization using the Setup Assistant
      • Account auto-synchronization
    • Backup & Restore
    • Suppoted Sharepoint templates, and limitations
  • File Level Backup and Restore - OS Agent
  • Protecting Applications
    • Applications
      • MSSQL
      • MySQL/MariaDB
      • PostgreSQL
      • DB2
      • Oracle
      • Relax and Recover - ReaR
      • Git
      • oVirt/RHV/OLVM
      • Kubernetes/OpenShift etcd
    • Backup & Restore
  • Protecting Storage Providers
    • Storage Providers
      • Ceph RBD
      • Nutanix Files
      • Nutanix Volume Groups
    • Backup & Restore
  • Administration
    • Dashboard
    • Virtual Environments
      • Instances
        • Backup on-demand
        • Restore on-demand
        • Snapshot Management
      • Virtualization Providers
      • Backup SLAs
        • Policies
        • Schedules
      • Snapshot SLAs
        • Policies
        • Schedules
      • Recovery Plans
        • Policies
        • Schedules
      • Mounted Backups (File-level Restore)
    • Storage
      • Instances
        • Backup on-demand
        • Restore on-demand
      • Infrastructure
      • Backup SLAs
        • Policies
        • Schedules
      • Snapshot SLAs
        • Policies
        • Schedules
      • Mounted Backups (File-level Restore)
    • Cloud
      • Instances
      • Service Providers
      • Backup SLAs
        • Policies
        • Schedules
      • Download
    • Applications
      • Instances
      • Execution Configurations
      • Backup SLAs
    • Endpoints
      • Environment
      • Administrators
      • Endpoints Server Management
        • Dashboard
        • Packages
        • Organizations
      • Endpoints Administrator
        • Dashboard
        • Users
          • Local users
          • LDAP users
        • Devices
          • Devices list view
          • Device status
        • Backup SLA
          • Create a Backup SLA
            • GENERAL
            • WINDOWS
            • MAC OS (technical preview)
            • EMAIL CLIENTS
          • Backup SLA management
          • Backup SLA removal
        • Restore Jobs
        • Client Deployments
    • Reporting
      • Virtual Environments
      • Storage
      • Microsoft 365
      • Applications
      • Notifications
      • Audit Log
    • Nodes
      • Instances
      • Node Configurations
    • Access Management
      • Users
      • Groups
      • Roles
      • OS Credentials
    • Settings
      • Global Settings
      • Internal DB Backup
      • Notification Rules
      • Mailing Lists
      • Endpoints Global Settings
    • Upgrade
    • CLI Reference
    • CLI v2 Reference
  • Integration
  • Integration Plugins
    • Red Hat Virtualization UI Plugin
    • oVirt UI Plugin
    • Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager UI Plugin
    • OpenStack UI Plugin
  • Troubleshooting
    • Enable DEBUG mode in Storware Backup and Recovery
    • Collecting logs
    • External log targets
    • Disaster Recovery
  • Known software issues and limitations
  • Glossary
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  • General
  • VM Summary
  • Backup/Restore Statistics
  • Daily activity
  • Backup Size
  • Backup Time
  • Transfer Rate
  • Restore Time
  • Transfer Rate
  • Events Calendar
  • Bottom menu
  • Backup
  • Backup History
  • Restore History
  • Snapshots
  • Disks
  • Schedules
  • Mounted Backups
  • Settings
  1. Administration
  2. Virtual Environments

Instances

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General

A list of currently known virtual machines and access to the details page of each object. From this place, you can also perform on-demand actions such as backup, restore, and file-level restore.

The field lets the user filter the virtual machines by their:

  • Name

  • UUID

  • GUID

  • Tags

  • Url of a linked hypervisor manager

  • Node configuration name linked via hypervisor manager

  • Host field of a linked hypervisor

  • Node configuration name linked via a hypervisor

  • Name field of a linked VM Backup Policy

  • Name field of a linked Snapshot Management Policy

Returning to the VM details page, this is what it looks like:

As you can see, the window has been divided into several areas:

VM Summary

At the top, you can see summarized pieces of information about the VM, such as:

  • the ID of the VM object into Storware Backup & Recovery

  • to which hypervisor the VM belongs

  • which node is backing up this virtual machine

  • short information about the last backup actions

  • whether the virtual machine has tags or policies assigned to it

You can also use several function buttons:

  • refresh

  • back to list

  • backup

  • restore

  • mount

  • delete

Backup/Restore Statistics

Daily activity

First, you'll see a daily summary of the backup and restore operations for the last month. This view is called "Daily Summary" and is the default view. You can switch the report between four views.

Backup Size

This view shows separate columns for the size of the current backed up data.

Backup Time

A very useful report. It allows you to determine the required window length for backups or, based on the time of individual phases, it is easy to deduce the cause of slow backups.

Transfer Rate

One of the latest reports, now you can easily see how fast data transfer is.

Restore Time

A view with the same properties as "Backup Time". It allows us to estimate how long it will take to restore the machine in the event of a failure.

Transfer Rate

As in the previous case, we also have the transfer speed for the restore job.

Events Calendar

The calendar extends the possibilities of adjacent statistics. It allows you to neatly define the range of days you want to see, additionally makes a quick summary of the number of backups and restores (top right corner). Blue - the sum of all backups, Green - the sum of successes, Red - the sum of failures.

Bottom menu

In the bottom menu, you can find a large number of tabs, each of which will present different information or will allow you to change the configuration of this particular virtual machine.

Backup

The first tab shows all virtual machine backups that are currently available and all basic information about them in a list. After clicking on the magnifying glass button, you will see additional information. The button next to it allows you to download logs in the form of a .txt file.

Adjust Retention

On the list of backups you can also adjust retention for selected backups. Each backup can be set to:

  • "Mark to keep" which will keep the backup from being deleted by retention up to the set date

  • "Mark as expired" which will mark backup for removal during next backup cleanup process

Backup History

This tab shows information about all backups made for this virtual machine, as well as information about failed, removed (because of retention), or currently executing backups.

Restore History

This tab is similar to "Backup History". This is a list with basic information about the virtual machine restores performed. When you open the details of the selected restore, you will see more detailed information.

Snapshots

This tab shows virtual machine snapshots (remember - snapshots are stored on the hypervisor). The snapshot can be divided into two categories:

1. As you can see in the list above, there is a green dot next to the snapshot. This means that this snapshot is created for incremental backup purposes. This is an automatic operation and we only keep the last snapshot.

2. The second one on the list is a snapshot created at the user's request (scheduled or manual).

Next to the snapshot is a button that allows you to restore the virtual machine. It actually creates a new virtual machine and keeps the old one (security considerations to protect against the human factor).

Disks

It is worth remembering that if such a virtual machine is restored, the excluded disks will be created from scratch and connected to the machine.

Schedules

In this tab, you can see all the schedules assigned to the virtual machine.

Mounted Backups

This tab shows a list of mounted backups for this virtual environment.

Settings

Finally, the last tab. The first two options allow you to change the policies assigned to the virtual machine. The third is a toggle to turn on or off the "Snapshot consistent technology" feature. Below You can change the transfer mode which is used for this VM.

Performing pre/post snapshot commands is a function intended for advanced users. As the name implies, it allows us to execute scripts via ssh or winrm connection, either before or after taking a snapshot.