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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On this page
  • Node
  • Server
  • Configuration Wizard
  • Welcome page - nodes
  • Add a hypervisor
  • Add backup destination
  • Add SLA
  • Add policy
  • Add schedule
  • Add internal DB backup
  1. Deployment

Initial Configuration

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Node

  1. Set up the backup destinations (examples):

  2. For backup strategies involving disk attachment mode, follow these steps: .

Server

  1. Upload your license key:

    • if you don't have it, you can contact the Storware team.

    • log in to the web UI and go to the Settings -> License and upload your license.key file.

  2. It is highly recommended to set up Storware Backup & Recovery DB backup - the database is key to restoring your Storware Backup & Recovery environment and later all of the backups that you need.

  3. Admin account setup:

    • for audit purposes, it is recommended to add individual admin accounts using the section

Note: make sure to set the correct time zone for each user - the default admin account has UTC by default.

Configuration Wizard

  • The configuration wizard can be accessed from the main dashboard by clicking on the "configuration wizard" button on the right.

Welcome page - nodes

  • On the welcome page, you should see the Storware Backup & Recovery nodes summary. You need at least one fully running node to continue. If you meet this requirement, click on the Next button.

Add a hypervisor

  • In the Hypervisor section, you will start by selecting the hypervisor manager or hypervisor that you want to add. You can repeat this step if you have many types of virtualization providers.

  • For the Citrix hypervisor (as an example) you have to enter the following parameters

  • Choose node configuration

Select a backup strategy for your hypervisor

  • Optionally, you can add an additional NIC for transfer purposes (provide IP address)

  • At the end, you will see a popup window that allows you to run inventory synchronization. After that, you should see all the virtual machines from that hypervisor.

Add backup destination

  • In the next section, you can add a backup destination. In this case, you can also repeat the whole process so that you can add multiple providers using the wizard.

  • Choose a backup destination (we used File System as an example)

  • First, enter a name for your backup destination

  • Set up a storage path, where your data should be stored

  • Optionally you can enable encryption (AES-256 algorithm) - if you enable it, remember that you will not benefit from deduplication.

  • Decide if you want to set up this backup destination as the default one.

  • Finish this step by going to the next section or adding another backup destination

Add SLA

In this example, we will add SLA for Virtual Environment backup.

Add policy

  • Choose a name for the policy, auto-remove non-present virtual environments (if Storware Backup & Recovery should remove VM from a policy that no longer exists) tick the checkbox, and set the priority

  • Choose if you want to use auto assign mode based on tags and regular expressions (matched against the VM name, .* matches all characters 0 or more times)

  • Manually add the VMs if you do not want to use the auto-assignment mode

  • Choose a backup destination target for this policy

Note: You can now customize retention. Each backup destination has its own retention settings. Whichever condition is met first (either number of versions has been reached or the backup is older than the given limit), it is removed from the backup destination.

Configure the following thresholds:

  • Fail rest of the backup tasks if more than X % of EXPORT tasks already failed

  • Fail rest of the backup tasks if more than X % of STORE tasks already failed

Add schedule

  • Choose a name for the schedule and define the type:

    • Full

    • Incremental

  • Define the execution type:

    • time

    • interval

  • Define the start window length

  • Choose the time of day for backup

  • Choose

    • days (required).

    • day of week occurrence (optional)

    • selected months (optional)

  • Finish this step by going to the next section or adding another SLA.

Add internal DB backup

  • Choose which node config should be used to perform a Storware Backup & Recovery DB backup

  • Choose the backup destination for the DB backup

Choose when the DB backup should be run (daily basis)

  • Finalize the configuration and/or run the backup manually (on demand)

  • you are ready to go!

Choose, if you want to use deduplication based on

configuration for pre/post execution command. If you use a File System with or integration of standard filesystem, skip this step.

Note: check the section for details of Backup SLAs to each protected platform

File System
Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO)
LVM setup on Storware Backup & Recovery Node for disk attachment backup mode
Access Management
Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO)
VDO
Dell EMC Data Domain
Administration