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 panel, 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. You can also select all file servers that are listed by
clicking the check-box as shown. Any data added to the servers selected 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
.
Tips for configuring options:
Review the following tips to help you configure options for the backup job:
- To set the options for child resources to the same values as the parent, click Set
all options to inherit.
- If multiple resources were selected for the backup job, the options are indeterminate. If you
change the value for an option, that value is used for all selected resources after you click
Save.
- Options that are shown in yellow indicate that the option value has changed from the previously
saved value.
- 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.
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.