Backup and Recovery
Backup and Recovery 7.1
Backup and Recovery 7.1
  • Storware Backup & Recovery documentation
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    • Licensing
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    • Sizing Guide
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      • Installation using Ansible playbook
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    • Initial Configuration
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      • File System
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          • XFS
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        • Catalogic Software vStor
      • Deduplication Appliances
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      • 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
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    • Cloud
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    • Containers
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    • Backup & Restore
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  • Protecting Microsoft 365
    • Microsoft 365 organization management
      • Configure Microsoft 365 access
      • Add Microsoft 365 organization manually
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    • 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
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    • Backup & Restore
  • Protecting Storage Providers
    • Storage Providers
      • Ceph RBD
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    • Backup & Restore
  • Administration
    • Dashboard
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      • Instances
        • Backup on-demand
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        • Snapshot Management
      • Virtualization Providers
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        • Policies
        • Schedules
      • Snapshot SLAs
        • Policies
        • Schedules
      • Recovery Plans
        • Policies
        • Schedules
      • Mounted Backups (File-level Restore)
    • Storage
      • Instances
        • Backup on-demand
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      • Infrastructure
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        • Policies
        • Schedules
      • Snapshot SLAs
        • Policies
        • Schedules
      • Mounted Backups (File-level Restore)
    • Cloud
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      • Service Providers
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      • Download
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        • Devices
          • Devices list view
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        • Backup SLA
          • Create a Backup SLA
            • GENERAL
            • WINDOWS
            • MAC OS (technical preview)
            • EMAIL CLIENTS
          • Backup SLA management
          • Backup SLA removal
        • Restore Jobs
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    • Reporting
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  • Integration
  • Integration Plugins
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    • 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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  • SSH Transfer
  • Backup Process
  • Export storage repository
  • Backup Process
  • How to set up export storage repository backup
  • File-level restore support for VMA images
  1. Protecting Virtual Environments
  2. Virtual Machines

Proxmox VE

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SSH Transfer

SSH Transfer strategy:

  • supports Proxmox 5.0+

  • supports only QCOW2 disk images

  • supports incremental backups

  • supports over iSCSI

Backup is done by transferring QCOW2 disk images over SSH directly from the hypervisor (optionally using Netcat for transfer). Metadata is backed up only in the full backup. This method supports incremental backups where the last snapshot is required for the next incremental backups. The resulting backup has separate files for each disk + metadata, so you have the option to exclude specific drives as well.

Backup Process

  • QCOW2 - file-based storage only

  • crash-consistent snapshots created using hypervisor CLI over SSH

  • optionally FS freeze can be executed before snapshot can be executed (FS thaw once the snapshot is completed) if enabled and guest tools installed inside

  • QCOW2 snapshots mounted locally on the hypervisor and exported via SSH (optionally with netcat)

  • for incremental backups, both last and currently created snapshots are mounted and block-difference is sent via SSH

  • metadata exported via SSH • restore imports metadata and overwrites empty disks with data from a merged backup over SSH

Export storage repository

The Proxmox virtual environment requires you to create storage used for VM export. Export storage should also be accessible to Storware Backup & Recovery Node in its staging directory. This implies that storage space doesn't have to be exported by Storware Backup & Recovery Node - it can be mounted from an external source. The only requirement is to have it visible from both Proxmox VE hosts and the Node itself. Keep in mind that ownership of the files on the share should allow both Storware Backup & Recovery and Proxmox VE to read and write files.

Backup Process

  • native VM export is done to the prepared NFS storage (staging space on Storware Backup & Recovery) using SSH access to the hypervisor

  • crash-consistency - FS freeze used for VMs, LVM snapshot for containers

  • optional application consistency using pre/post export command execution for VMs (pre/post snapshot) for containers

  • data and metadata are in a single VMA image

  • only full backups are supported • restore imports VMA image to the hypervisor

How to set up export storage repository backup

Proxmox virtual environments require backup storage to be defined on each server. This storage must be a location accessible from Storware Backup & Recovery Node (the simplest setup, when you use only 1 node, is to create NFS share for the staging path on Storware Backup & Recovery Node)

  1. Create storage from NFS share (Content-type: only VZDump)

  • Export share must be set to use the UID and GID of the vprotect user

  • Example export configuration in /etc/exports to the selected hypervisor in the cluster:

    /vprotect_data    PROXMOX_HOSTS(fsid=6,rw,sync,insecure,all_squash,
    anonuid=993,anongid=990)

    where anonuid=993 and anongid=990 should have correct UID and GID returned by command:

    [root@vProtect3 ~]# id vprotect
    uid=993(vprotect) gid=990(vprotect) groups=990(vprotect)
  • Both import and export operations will be done using these NFS shares – restore will be done directly to this storage domain, so you can easily import the backup into Proxmox VE

    • backups must be restored to the export path (the node automatically changes names to the original paths that are recognized by Proxmox VE.

  • A name for storage must be provided later in the node configuration (Hypervisor -> Proxmox section)

File-level restore support for VMA images

Prepare the VMA extractor on Storware Backup & Recovery Node - you have 2 options:

  • build VMA extractor like this (requires Internet on the node):

cd /opt/vprotect/scripts/vma
./setup_vma.sh
cd /opt/vprotect/scripts/vma
./setup_vma.sh PATH_TO_VMA_ARCHIVE

download VMA extractor from and install it

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