PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance 5.15.0.0 File System User Guide

Configure protection policy options

On the Options page, select any additional options that are required for the policy.

1. To enable FLR and searching backups, select Enable indexing for file search and restore.
2. In the Disaster recovery options pane, select the options that you want applied to the policy, and then click Next.
   • Back up system state files only - Performs a backup of system state files only. By default, this check box is not selected and bare-metal recovery (BMR) data is backed up.
     NOTE: If the policy is configured with this option, you can only perform a system-state recovery (SSR), and the backed up data will only contain SSR information. BMR with WinPE is not possible.
   • Ignore missing system state files - Missing Windows system state files are reported as errors, and the backup fails, reporting the files as missing. This option is selected by default.
   • Exclude non-critical dynamic disks - If any volume of a dynamic disk pack is critical, all volumes in the dynamic disk pack are considered critical. By default, this option is not selected and noncritical dynamic disks are included in the backup data. To avoid the creation of large system state files, select this option to exclude noncritical dynamic disks from the backup data.
   • Ignore third-party services when identifying critical volumes - When a Windows service or application is installed on an otherwise noncritical disk, that disk is considered critical. By default, this option is not selected and the backup includes the disks on which a Windows service or application is installed. To avoid the creation of large system state files, select this option.
3. Select the preferred Backup mechanism option from the drop-down:
   • Select Block Based Backup (BBB) to apply the Block Based Backup mechanism. This is the default option.
   • Select Auto to enable the File System agent to apply the faster backup mechanism based on the asset types and filter.
   • Select File Based Backup (FBB) to apply the File Based Backup mechanism.
4. To enable the debug logs for troubleshooting purposes, select Troubleshooting.
5. To override the default debug level, add the statement debugLevel=<N> to the addOn.cfg configuration file, where N is the desired debug level, in the range [4..9].
   NOTE: Changing the default bug level can result in larger logs that can slow backup operations and sometimes cause the asset host to run out of disk space. On Windows hosts, the log files are located in the C:\Program Files\DPSAPPS\fsagent\tmp and C:\Program Files\DPSAPPS\fsagent\logs directories. On Linux hosts, the logs are located in the /opt/dpsapps/fsagent/tmp and /opt/dpsapps/fsagent/logs directories. If no backup jobs are running, files in these directories can be removed.

   In Windows environments, the impacted logs include:

   • FSAgentInstallPath\logs\vsscr.log
   • FSAgentInstallPath\logs\nsriscsi.log
   • FSAgentInstallPath\logs\nsriscsi_***.log
   • FSAgentInstallPath\logs\nsrwriter.log
   • FSAgentInstallPath\logs\ddfscon.***.log
   • FSAgentInstallPath\logs\ddfscon_***.log
   • FSAgentInstallPath\logs\ddfssv.log
   • FSAgentInstallPath\logs\ddfssv_***.log
   • FSAgentInstallPath\logs\ddfsrc_***.log

   In Linux environments, the impacted logs include:

   • /opt/dpsapps/fsagent/logs/nsriscsi.log
   • /opt/dpsapps/fsagent/logs/ddfscon.***.log
   • /opt/dpsapps/fsagent/logs/ddfssv.log

   If you have updated from an earlier File System agent version, some log files may appear with both .log and .raw extensions. Use the .log files.

6. Click Next.