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PowerProtect Data Manager 19.12 Administration and User Guide

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Manually configure server DR backups

For new installations, PowerProtect Data Manager automatically configures and enables server DR. However, you can manually configure DR protection for the PowerProtect Data Manager system and the system metadata.

Prerequisites

If you plan to use NFS for protection storage, prepare the target DD system as described in Prepare the DD system recovery target (NFS).

If you plan to use DD Boost for protection storage, add the DD system as protection storage. Protection storage provides instructions. If you plan to replicate server DR backups, the replication target must be a different protection storage system.

Steps

  1. Log in to the PowerProtect Data Manager user interface as a user with the Administrator role.
  2. Click Settings icon, select Disaster Recovery, and then click Configuration.
  3. Select Enable backup.
  4. For DD Boost, configure the backup with the following attributes:
    1. For Protocol, select DDBoost.
    2. From the PowerProtect DD System drop-down list, select a backup destination from the list of existing protection storage systems, or select Add to add a system and complete the details in the Add Storage window.
      For initial DR configuration, the Storage Unit field is empty. If DR was already configured, the Storage Unit field displays the name of the storage unit that holds server DR backups.
  5. For NFS, configure the backup with the following attributes:
    1. For Protocol, select NFS.
    2. In the PowerProtect DD System field, type the IP address or hostname of the DD system for the backup.
    3. In the NFS Export Path field, type the NFS path where server DR backups are stored on the target DD system.
  6. Configure the backup frequency and duration:
    1. Type an interval between server DR backups, in hours.
      This setting controls backup frequency, and the allowed values are 1 to 24 hours.
    2. Type the number of days for which PowerProtect Data Manager should retain server DR backups.
      The allowed values are 2 to 30 days.
  7. To enable server DR replication:
    1. Check Enable Replication.
    2. From the Replicate Backup To drop-down list, select a target from the list of existing protection storage systems, or select Add to add a system and complete the details in the Add Storage window.
      The replication target cannot be the backup destination.
    The replication frequency and retention time are the same as for the backup.
  8. Click Save.

Results

For DD Boost, PowerProtect Data Manager creates system jobs to prepare the new storage unit and to configure the server DR protection policy.

For both storage types, PowerProtect Data Manager creates a system job for the first server DR backup.

If you configured replication, PowerProtect Data Manager creates a DD Boost user and storage unit on the destination. Server DR backups begin replicating according to the protection schedule.

Next steps

Verify that the system jobs succeed.

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