Seed your AccuGuard private Backup Cloud with RDX QuikStor Tandberg Data Solution Guide V 0.91 16 th June 2014
AccuGuard Enterprise for RDX AccuGuard Enterprise for RDX is an easy to use backup software for small and medium businesses with multiple servers, clients or remote workplaces. AccuGuard Enterprise is single instance software which only resides on one server. There are no agents to be installed on any additional servers or workstations. So, AccuGuard Enterprise fits perfect into a backup cloud strategy as new clients can be integrated immediately Source based deduplication AccuGuard performs a source based deduplication. With this, AccuGuard deduplicates and compresses the backup set directly at the client side to reduce backup time, backup amount and network traffic. This is done by a small piece of software which is automatically sent to the client from the AccuGuard server. With deduplication, reduction ratios up to 20:1 could be achieved. Initial Backup and backup cloud seeding An initial backup does not totally benefit from deduplication and compression. The initial backup is a full backup and the deduplication ratio might be slight, due to a lot of different files to backup for the first time. So, done for a remote computer, this could utilize a lot of network resources and might take a lot of time. A better idea is to perform the first backup directly at the remote location with an USB attached RDX QuikStor. The remote user has nothing to do except connecting the RDX drive, inserting a RDX media and share the drive. All backup operations are done at the data center within the AccuGuard Enterprise user-interface. After backup is finished, the remote user ships the RDX media to the data center. There, the backup is imported to the server object store, where future backups of this remote client are stored. As deduplication and compression is still done at the remote site, further backups will be dramatically reduced in size. -2- Seed your AccuGuard private backup cloud
How to setup The following instructions demonstrate how to setup all steps for initial backup and data seeding. Preparing the remote system Connect the RDX drive to the remote computer. It will be shown up as an additional drive letter. (Here, an appropriate label was issued) We need to share the RDX drive within the network to perform a backup remotely. Therefore right click on the RDX drive and select properties. Then choose Advanced Sharing. -3- Seed your AccuGuard private backup cloud
Choose a share name and click on Permissions. Allow Full Control for the administrator. (You should create a backup administrator account on the server and all clients.) Now, the RDX drive is shared. (Indicated by the small icon on the left lower side) -4- Seed your AccuGuard private backup cloud
Preparing AccuGuard Enterprise for the remote backup job First we have to add the remote computer. Be sure, that the computer resides inside the same domain or workgroup. Select Remote Computers and click on Add Computer. Select a method to add the new computer. Here we chose Type the Computer Name. Add the computer by entering either the computer name or IP-address. The remote computer is now integrated into AccuGuard Enterprise. -5- Seed your AccuGuard private backup cloud
The next step is to introduce the remote computer s RDX to AccuGuard as a store. We will handle this RDX like a network drive. Start the Add Store Wizzard and choose Network Drive. Click Add a network location. Type in the remote computer s name and the share name we have chosen before to specify the network location. Choose a name for this network location. The share name is automatically predefined but can be overwritten. -6- Seed your AccuGuard private backup cloud
Now the RDX of the remote computer is introduced to AccuGuard and we can now create a store. Select the drive and click Next. Choose a name for this store and click OK. Click on Prepare Now, the store will be created by adding a specific directory structure on the RDX media of the remote computer. It will appear in the All Stores overview. -7- Seed your AccuGuard private backup cloud
Create a protection plan for the remote computer Now, as everything is set up, we can create the initial backup for the remote computer targeted to the local attached RDX QuikStor. Select the remote computer and click Create Protection Plan in the right panel. Select the type of data you want to protect. Here we selected Files and Folders and selected the directory C:\Test Files\. Click next to define the backup target. Choose the store RDX Drive on remote client we created above to backup directly to the RDX connected to the remote computer. -8- Seed your AccuGuard private backup cloud
Enter a plan name and a description and click next. Enter a schedule for this plan. Here we chose No Schedule to run this plan manually. The plan is now created. As soon as the remote system is ready, click Run at the right panel. The backup job starts at the remote site. During this time, the remote system should not shut down. When the job is finished, the remote user has to be informed, that the RDX media can be ejected from the drive and can be shipped to the central backup location. -9- Seed your AccuGuard private backup cloud
Import the remote media into the central backup location As a next step, we need to import the backup set to the central backup server. So, the next backups will perform deduplication tasks based on this initial backup. The deduplication is done at the remote computer. So only blocks which have been changed or which have been added since the last backup are sent over the network. In addition, also compression is performed on the remote site. This reduces the amount of data once more. The central backup server, where AccuGuard Enterprise for RDX resides, should have connected a RDX QuikStor drive or a RDX QuikStation. As soon as the remote media arrives, insert it into a RDX drive. It will show up in the devices and drives area with the label we gave on the remote site. The store is still visible in AccuGuard. Now we plan to use a local disk for all further backups of the remote computer. We need to copy the backup set from RDX to local disk. Therefore, select this store and click on Create Store Task at the right panel. Choose Create Store Copy Task. -10- Seed your AccuGuard private backup cloud
Choose the RDX store as a source and the local disk store (here Local ObjectStore) as the destination. Click Next. If the stores do not appear in the right field, you can change from destination to source and vice versa by selecting the store and clicking the arrows. Select the backup set to copy. Click Next. Choose Only copy the most recent recovery point, as we just did one backup to the RDX media. Click Next. Specify a name for the copy job. Click Next. Select No Schedule at the Edit Schedule screen and click Next. Click Finish to create the store copy task. -11- Seed your AccuGuard private backup cloud
The store copy task is now displayed in the middle panel when the RDX store is selected in the left panel. Select the task and click Run on the right panel to start the task. The OK status indicated the success of the copy task. -12- Seed your AccuGuard private backup cloud
Change the backup plan settings As all future backups should be targeted to the local disk of the AccuGuard Server, the last step will be the change of the backup destination of the backup plan we already used for our base line backup. Select the remote computer from the Remote Computers section of the left panel, select the backup plan in the middle panel and click Plan Settings on the right panel. Select the Settings tab and click Change. Select the appropriate store for future backups and click OK. -13- Seed your AccuGuard private backup cloud
The backup destination has now changed from RDX Drive on remote client to Local ObjectStore. Click OK to finish the change. Run the plan to check all settings. In our example, there haven t been any changes made between the initial backup at the remote site and the import and the second backup at the local site. So during this backup run, 0 bytes have been stored. Finally, the schedule of this backup plan should be changed from No Schedule to an appropriate schedule by selecting Edit Schedule from the right panel. -14- Seed your AccuGuard private backup cloud