Primary backup
objectives apply to all protection policy purposes except self-service and exclusion policies.
Prerequisites
NOTE:
When a new asset is added to a protection policy during a scheduled backup window, the backup starts right away. However, if an asset is added to a protection policy outside of the scheduled backup window, the backup does not start until the next time that backups are configured to run.
If a new asset is added to a protection policy that has a weekly or monthly backup schedule and the current time is within the scheduled
Start and
End times, the backup runs right away, regardless of the date. If the current time is not within the scheduled
Start and
End times, the backup does not start until the next time that backups are configured to run.
NOTE:Any backup that starts before the
End time continues until completion.
About this task
CAUTION:The retention period of synthetic full backups must be less than or equal to the retention period of full backup copies. If you set a shorter retention period for a synthetic full backup than for the corresponding full backup, then data loss might occur and you might be unable to recover the point-in-time copies.
By default, the retention period for the full backup is the same as that for the synthetic full backup. You can, however, specify a retention period for the full backup that is longer than the retention period for the synthetic full backup.
Steps
Click
Add under
Primary Backup.
The
Add Primary Backup dialog appears.
On the
Target pane, specify the following fields:
Storage Name—Select a backup destination from the list of
protection storage, or select
Add to add
protection storage and complete the details in the
Storage Target dialog.
Storage Unit—Select whether this protection policy should use a
New storage unit on the selected
protection storage system, or select an existing storage unit from the list.
Hover over a storage unit to view the full name and statistics for available capacity and total capacity, for example,
testvmpolicy-daily-123ab (300 GB/1 TB).
The
Space field indicates the total amount of space, and the percentage of available space, on the
protection storage system.
When you select
New,
PowerProtect Data Manager creates a storage unit on the selected
protection storage system upon policy completion. The storage unit name follows the format
policy name-hostname-unique identifier.
For example,
testvmpolicy-daily-123cd.
Network Interface—Select a network interface from the list, if applicable.
Retention Lock—Move the
Retention Lock slider to the right to activate retention locking for these backups.
The retention lock mode setting comes from the configuration of the selected storage unit. When you activate retention locking, the
Retention Lock Mode field displays the corresponding storage unit setting.
Setting a retention lock applies to the current backup copy only, and does not impact the retention lock setting for existing backup copies.
SLA—From the list, select an existing service level agreement that you want to apply to this
objective, or select
Add to create an SLA within the
Add Backup Service Level Agreement wizard.
The
PowerProtect Data Manager Administrator Guide provides instructions.
On the
Schedules pane, specify the following fields to schedule a synthetic full backup of this protection policy:
Create a Synthetic Full backup every—Specify how often to create a synthetic full backup. A synthetic full backs up only the data that has changed since the last backup, to create a new, full backup.
Retain for—Specify the retention period for the synthetic full backup.
Start and
End—The activity window. Specify a time of day to start the synthetic full backup, and a time of day after which backups cannot be started.
Click
Save.
To periodically force a full (level 0) backup, click
Add backup and then specify the following fields to schedule the full backup:
NOTE:When you force a full backup, the backup chain resets.
Create a Full backup every—Specify whether you want to create an hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly full backup.
Repeat on—Depending on the frequency of the full backup schedule, specify the hour of the day, day of the week, or the date of the month that the full backup will occur.
Retain for—Specify the retention period for this full backup.
Start and
End—The activity window. Specify a time of day to start the full backup, and a time of day after which backups cannot be started.
Click
Save.
Click
Add Backup and repeat the procedure for creating full backups if you want to create additional backup copies at different intervals with different retention periods.
Within this protection policy, when a full schedule conflicts with another full backup schedule, a message appears, indicating that there is a conflict. Schedule occurrences can conflict with each other when the activity windows are identical or occur entirely within the same time range. To avoid full schedule conflicts in a policy, edit the activity windows.
If you proceed with conflicting schedules, the backup of the lower priority schedule will be skipped. Schedule priority is ranked according to the following criteria:
Full schedules have a higher priority than Synthetic Full schedules.
For schedules of the same backup type, the schedules that run less frequently have a higher priority than schedules that run more frequently. This is true only if the backup jobs that run more frequently have their backup window entirely within the backup window of the less frequent backup jobs.
For schedules with the same backup type and frequency, the schedule with the longest activity window has the higher priority. If the activity windows are also identical, only one of these schedules will run.
When a schedule conflict between full backups occurs,
PowerProtect Data Manager runs the full backup with the longest retention period.
Click
Save to save the changes and return to the
Objectives page.
The
Objectives page updates to display the name and location of the storage target under
Primary Backup.
Next steps
After completing the
objective, you can change any details by clicking
Edit next to the
objective.
Configure any remaining objectives. When you have configured all required objectives, click
Next.