Define regular backup jobs and specify options to run and create backup copies to protect
your file system data.
Before you begin
During the initial backup, IBM Spectrum® Protect Plus
creates a new vSnap volume and NFS share. During incremental backups, the previously created volume
is reused. The IBM Spectrum Protect Plus file system agent mounts
the share on the server where the backup is to be completed.
Review the following procedures and
considerations before you create a backup job definition:
- Add the file system servers that you want to back
up. For the procedure, see Adding a file system server.
- Configure a Service Level Agreement (SLA) Policy as described in this task.
- Before an IBM Spectrum Protect Plus user can implement backup
and restore operations, roles and resource groups must be assigned to the user. Grant users access
to resources and backup and restore operations through the Accounts pane. For
more information, see Managing user access.
A backup operation fails if the path is longer than 255 characters. If your paths are longer
than 255 characters, you must enable longer paths by using the Enable Win32 long
paths option in the Windows policy editor.
Note: Neither file system shares, or Microsoft cluster volumes can be protected with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.
About this task
The following steps describe how to back up resources that are assigned to an SLA policy. To run
an on-demand backup job for one or more resources regardless of whether those resources are already
associated with an SLA policy, click Create job, select Ad hoc
backup, and follow the instructions in Running an ad hoc backup job.
Procedure
-
In the navigation pane, expand .
- Select a file system server to back up in the Windows
Backup pane.
- You can select an entire file system server
by clicking the server name check-box. Any data added to this server is automatically assigned to
the SLA policy that you choose.
- Or, you can select a specific drive or mount point from a specific file system server by
clicking the server name, and choosing a drive or mount point from the list.
- Optional: Click Select Options
to specify files
to be excluded from the backup job you are setting up. Alternatively, you can click
Modify Excluded Files to leave the exclude rules as they are already defined.
Click Save to commit your changes.
If you want to exclude all the
files from a drive, you can specify the drive or a folder in a drive like this
Z:\test
. If you would like to exclude all files of a certain type from your backup
job, you can specify that exclusion by using a string like this example
*.png
.
Tip: To close the Options pane without saving
changes, click Select Options.
-
Select the file systems server, drive, or mount point for backing up, and click
Select an SLA policy
to choose an
SLA policy for that item.
You can choose from the following options:
Gold,
Silver, or
Bronze. Each policy type has different frequencies and retention rates as shown in
the following picture:
If you want to define a new SLA policy, select . In the
SLA Policies pane, click
Add SLA
Policy, and define your policy preferences. To edit an existing policy with custom
retention and frequency rates, click the edit icon
and define your preferences. Click
Save to commit your
changes.
-
Click Save to save the SLA policy.
If you want to run the
backup job immediately, click
. The status in
the log changes to show that the backup is Running
.
What to do next
To view the status of your existing file system SLA policies, select to view a summary of your protection as shown
in the following picture: