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Storix System Backup Administrator 10 Version 8.2 User Guide 1. Getting Started Supported Operating Systems & Hardware At the time of this publ

Select the server and device from the list by clicking on the button to the left. Once you do so, a list of backups for the selected server and devic

Select the desired job. An additional list will display, showing the dates the job has been run: Note that the color of the button represents whethe

Select the button next to the client and backup type you wish to display. An additional list of specific backup dates for the selected client and bac

2. Use the arrow button to select a Server Name (if Network Edition). 3. Use the arrow button to select the Backup Device. 4. If you selected a d

Once a backup label has been expired, it will not be possible to verify or restore data from this backup using the Backup Administrator application.

18. Backup Job Status & Output History The job status and backup output, which may be displayed while a backup is running, is kept on file as long

The desired job status for completed (or failed) jobs may be obtained in each of the following ways: View by Server This option is not available wh

Note that the color of the button represents whether the backup was successful (green) or failed (red). The Job ID, date and time, and a list of clien

19. Verify a Backup After a backup job has complete, it is often a good precaution to verify the backup to ensure the data on the backup media is comp

7. If the selected device is tape, the tape will be automatically read and the backup label ID will be displayed Backup ID field. Press the Begin Ver

Storix System Backup Administrator 11 Version 8.2 User Guide Network Edition The Network Edition license is only installed onto the system from whi

Using an Alternate Network to Verify from the Server When using Network Edition, it may at time be desirable to have the client read the data using a

If the verify is of any backup type other than a raw device backup (such as a logical volume or meta-disk), a list of files on the backup will be dis

20. Recreate Volume Groups, Logical Volumes or Filesystems The options described in this chapter are supported for AIX systems only. Due to the compl

1. If using Network Edition license, select the Server Name. 2. If using a Network Edition license, select the Server Name. When using Network Editio

backups, there may be multiple jobs on the media. In this case, the list will contain all of the backups, even those from different jobs. The informat

If there are changes required to make the selected volume group fit onto the current system, the Edit and Fix buttons will become available. If there

8. If using a Network Edition license, select the Server Name. When using Network Edition, you can also choose “local (client tape/disk)” for the Ser

even those from different jobs. The information about the backup will be preceded by the backup sequence number, starting with 1 and ending with the l

a. The Check button may be used to check the LVM information again. This is automatically performed when you initially display this screen and any tim

21. Restore Data from a Backup Data may be restored from any backup server to any client using SBAdmin. Using a Network Edition license, a backup take

Software Installation and Configuration The following instructions may be used to install the software from either software packages downloaded from t

5. If you selected a TSM Server, select the Original Client (owner) of the backup. 6. If the selected device is tape, the tape will be automatically

Selecting Restore Options After selecting the backup media to restore from, you will be returned to the previous window, where you may enter or select

Backup Type Restore Data Type(s) Destination Type(s) System Backup Volume Groups (Linux/AIX) Zpools (Solaris) Filesystems Directories Regular Files

surrounded by quotes to preserve the space in the filename. Note that you can use wildcards (*) to restore multiple files with similar names or locati

From this popup window you may select one or more files to restore. After selecting the Submit button you will be returned to the main screen and ca

Storix System Backup Administrator 125 Version 8.2 User Guide From this window, you may: 1. Click on any folder or file icon to select that direc

/home/picture.gif /home/anthony/myfiles/picture.gif These are not found because these files are not in a single sub-directory of /home as indicated by

Displaying the Status and Output of the Restore The restore will begin, and the status report screen, as shown below, will appear automatically. Liste

closed and redisplayed at any time, even after the restore completes, as long as the Restore Status Report screen has not been closed. In addition to

Storix System Backup Administrator 129 Version 8.2 User Guide 22. Copying Backups to Different Media This feature may be used to copy any backup f

To update the software with access to the internet, you may automatically check, download and apply updates directly from the Storix website by select

Source Media The source media may be any tape or directory device. Use the arrow to the right of the Device entry field to select a device to copy fro

You may also alter the buffer size of the backup by entering a buffer size (in Kbytes) in the Buffer size field. This is quite useful in increasing th

23. Preferences In this section, options that affect the overall operation or appearance of the application are discussed. To change the user preferen

3. You purchased a Network Edition for 10 clients, and now want to add support for another 6 clients. 4. You wish to install a new optional feature.

The Interface Options define the features and appearance of the SBAdmin GUI interface: Operating Systems Support This option will not appear if usin

are available. To change these preferences, select File!Preference!General Preferences, press the Configure Button next to Fonts & Colors. The fol

Storix System Backup Administrator 136 Version 8.2 User Guide Winter Classic Storix (default) To change the Font Name, Size or St

Network Timeout For SBAdmin to perform any operations on a client, from querying it’s availability to starting a backup job, it must execute a remote

To define a new printer, enter the name of your printer in the box at the top of the screen. To change an existing printer definition, either type it

go back to using the default adapter (according to the primary hostname of the system), simply remove any entry from this field. The network adapte

When multiple groups or users configured, you can specify the group or user/password at the command-line with the following flags: # sbadmin –G group

It is common to lower this value if you do not want your backups to run as the same priority as other applications. This will usually cause the backup

Backup Retention Policy The backup retention policy (also referred to as the overwrite policy) determines whether or not a new backup should be allowe

days, the backup will not be overwritten and the user will be required to expire the backup manually before proceeding. Refer to Expiring a Backup for

Press the Save button to save your selections and close this window, or press the Cancel button to cancel changes. Backup Status Notifications Becaus

reported using the alternate notification method. Selecting this option is equivalent to using the first option when the Administrator is not running.

SBA JOBSTART: 000003 June 17 16:50:04 PDT 1999 Job 000003 has been started. Backup Device: rmt1 Backup Server: spiderman Job Clients: m

To view or change the error handling setting, select File!Preferences!Device Error handling from the menu bar. When you do so, a Device Error Handling

Storix System Backup Administrator 147 Version 8.2 User Guide 24. Calendar When a backup job is scheduled via the job configuration screen, an entr

Storix System Backup Administrator 148 Version 8.2 User Guide 25. Reports When you select Reports from the menu bar, you may further select from a

Clients & Servers This option is not available when using Workstation Edition. Select Reports!Clients & Servers to print a list of the clien

the Main Screen. Refer to Software License in the Preferences section for details on viewing and changing the license options. Initial TSM Setup This

When using Workstation Edition, this report is always run in order of backup job. The option of running by client is not available. Running the repo

3. The retention period in the job settings (number of days) has passed since the backup was performed. 4. You specify a reporting date in the futur

26. Utilities This section provides instruction on the use of the utilities that are not typically used on a day-to-day basis but provide useful featu

Remote Installation Manager (RIM) After a client system is booted from the SBAdmin System Installation Media, the installation process may be performe

First, the tape will be read to ensure that there is not already a current backup on the media. Because this process will write a new label, overwriti

2. Rewind/Eject: Rewinds, then ejects the tape from the device. 3. Check if Available: Displays a message indicating whether or not the device is av

This option is used to set the next tape number in the library that will be used for the next backup or restore process. To use the option, select Uti

After making your selections, press the Move button to begin the operation. If any of the entries are not valid according to the library configuration

This option will read through the contents of the backup and rebuild the label, one backup at a time. Once that is accomplished, you may restore from

Read Error Settings This section provides information on the options for controlling the way read errors are handled when reading from the backup med

Storix System Backup Administrator 16 Version 8.2 User Guide 2. Introduction System Backup Administrator (SBAdmin) is designed to simplify the admi

4. Pad missing data blocks with nulls?: When a data sync error occurs, assuming the reading is setup to continue, the missing data will be padded wit

backup job. In this case, you must select the specific client backup (sequence number) to change from the list. After doing so, the Backup ID and the

27. Network Security SBAdmin was created with safeguards in place to prevent breaches in security without disrupting the security and integrity of the

All remote commands are executed using the “strexec” executable, which may be executed only by the root user on the system. All attempts to run remote

been configured, a password has been set, and the client is booted to the system installation process, there is little security risk, but it is worth

28. Getting Help QuickHelp If you are uncertain of the use of a particular button, listbox or entry field, you may at any time move the cursor over th

Index A admin system, 16, 43 AES. See encryption AIX backup process priority, 139 bootable tape, 152 installing software, 12 operating system support

Storix System Backup Administrator 167 Version 8.2 User Guide pre- and post-backup programs, 61 removing, 44 report, 149 backup types, 20 boot medi

Storix System Backup Administrator 168 Version 8.2 User Guide G groups, 13, 25, 28 adding, 28 admin user, 25 backup directories, 49, 50 changing, 2

Storix System Backup Administrator 169 Version 8.2 User Guide share, 42 notification. See backup status reporting O offsite backups, 129 operating

Note: When using Workstation Edition, the admin system will always act as the backup server. Therefore, references to the backup server in this manual

Storix System Backup Administrator 170 Version 8.2 User Guide exclude list, 71 snapshot backups, 86 chunk size, 87 concurrent, 88 enabling, 86 enab

Storix System Backup Administrator 171 Version 8.2 User Guide users, 25 access level, 26 adding, 25 changing, 26 levels, 25 removing, 26 utilities

Storix System Backup Administrator 18 Version 8.2 User Guide Tape Devices A tape backup device may consist of a single tape in a single tape drive,

Storix System Backup Administrator 19 Version 8.2 User Guide choose to use a name such as “ClientSystemBackups” if the directory will be used solel

Storix System Backup Administrator 2 Version 8.2 User Guide Trademarks and Copyrights © Copyright Storix, Inc. 1999-2014 USA Storix is a registered

Each backup job will be assigned a unique Backup ID, and each client backup within the job will have a unique backup sequence number. Each TSM backup

Storix System Backup Administrator 21 Version 8.2 User Guide 8. Meta-disk Backup (Linux and Solaris systems only) – Meta-disks are often referred

Storix System Backup Administrator 22 Version 8.2 User Guide 3. The Backup Administrator User Interface The Backup Administrator User Interface is

A client may be selected by clicking the left mouse button on the icon next to the client hostname. Likewise, a server may be selected by clicking th

When you click on a queue, the selected queue is highlighted, and the jobs in the selected queue are displayed in the middle display area. You may th

4. Users When you first installed SBAdmin, an “admin” user was created and you were prompted to provide a password for this user. The admin user is gi

From this screen, type the user name in the User name: entry field. When adding a new user you must also specify the Default Group, User Password, an

Users with access lower than Group Admin will only have the ability to change their password. All other fields will be disabled. When finished, pres

5. Groups To configure Groups you must be logged into SBAdmin as a User with “System Admin” privilege. When SBAdmin was first installed the group “ma

Changing a Group Click Configure!Groups. Select the name of the group you wish to change from the Group name: drop-down arrow to the right. You may no

Storix System Backup Administrator 3 Version 8.2 User Guide *Encryption Software System Backup Administrator Backup Data Encryption Feature has a c

Using Groups The following diagram illustrates how two groups may be configured on a single Administrator to isolate clients and servers from two sepa

In this example, the SharedServer has a directory device configured containing both %G and %C notation. This means only the original client and group

6. Clients This section only applies to the Network Edition license option. A client is defined as any system that will be backed up using the Backu

To add a new client, enter the hostname of the client in the entry field at the top. Note that the hostname you enter may be a simple hostname (i.e.

For most options, you can simply use the defaults shown. Other options are TSM-specific and described in detail in the TSM documentation. However, yo

data, for any client type, may be encrypted using 128, 192, or 256-bit AES encryption. You may only select this button for the number of clients your

Local System Backup Options The options in this section may be used to configure devices on the client that may be used as backup media for system ba

The client icon will be removed from the Main Screen when Clients, Servers & Devices are displayed. Storix System Backup Administrator 37 Versi

Storix System Backup Administrator 38 Version 8.2 User Guide 7. Servers A backup media server, also referred to simply as the backup server, SBAdmi

another group you may continue to Group(s) allowed to access this server. If this server is already defined, continue with the next paragraph. Adding

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Storix System Backup Administrator 40 Version 8.2 User Guide Here you will need to enter the Group ID as defined on the remote Administrator that

Hosts with Access to All Groups When using a Shared Server, it is often useful to define a client with access to all groups. If a remote Administrator

NFS Server Name The NFS Server Name field is a unique name that you will use to identify this server’s configuration. You may configure any number of

Storix System Backup Administrator 43 Version 8.2 User Guide You should refer to your TSM documentation for information on the additional fields w

COMMMethod This will be displayed as “TCPIP”, which is the only option supported. The only other TSM option is “shared” (shared memory), which can on

Select a server icon from the Main Screen when the Clients, Servers and Devices are displayed, then press the Remove Server button at the bottom of th

Storix System Backup Administrator 46 Version 8.2 User Guide 8. Backup Devices Before any backups may be performed, you must define the backup de

By default, the Physical Device Type field will be set to “Tape/Library”. If you want to create a directory-based device for writing backups to disk o

The sequential data is written to the first tape in the first drive until it fills up. Then, the backup continues onto the next drive in the list, etc

tape in the magazine. The backup or restore will continue automatically when the new tape is inserted. When starting a backup or restore, if the tape

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The %G will be replaced by the Group ID of the group, thereby storing backups for different groups in different directories. It also prevents a clien

Default Directory Devices For Network Edition, each time a server is added, three directory devices are automatically configured. This is mainly done

Storix System Backup Administrator 52 Version 8.2 User Guide 9. Local System Backup Device System Backups are primarily used for full system recov

In the Disk(s) for Local System Backups field, select the arrow to the right to display and select one or more disks to use. When selecting more than

When you have finished your selections, press the Save button at the bottom of the screen. The messages indicating the progress of this configuration

In the NFS Server (hostname or IP) field, enter the hostname or IP address of the NFS server that is exporting the share. In the Share on NFS Server

10. Backup Profile A backup profile is used to set default backup selections commonly used when performing different types of backups. Assigning a bac

To add a new profile, enter a new profile name in the entry field at the top of the screen, then select the type of backup for this profile by pressin

If any items within the data list do not apply to a client, the item will simply be ignored. For example, using a filesystem profile containing “/var

Note that the option for running “Programs prior to or after creation of snapshot” is only available with backups that are performing snapshots. Usin

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Storix System Backup Administrator 60 Version 8.2 User Guide Pre-backup Program Post-backup Program Client will be backed up and the job will c

Backup Server Pre & Post Backup Job programs Server pre and post-backup programs are only available with Network Edition, but will be ignored fo

The software is installed with sample script programs that may be used for any client or server pre-backup, post-backup or pre/post snapshot program.

Storix System Backup Administrator 63 Version 8.2 User Guide a. On the first day of every month, regardless of the day of the week, a full increme

Storix System Backup Administrator 64 Version 8.2 User Guide Changing a Backup Profile The information for an existing profile may be changed by se

Storix System Backup Administrator 65 Version 8.2 User Guide 11. Random Tape Libraries A tape library is a device that contains one or more tape d

Multiple Drive Libraries A multiple drive library configuration can use two or more drives which are used concurrently for a single backup job. The fo

To create a new library definition, enter a unique name of the library in the Library Name field. You must then enter information in each of the rema

Custom Library Commands You may choose to use or create different tape utility commands than the standard “mtx” and “tapeutil” commands that SBAdmin r

Define Drive/Tape Slots On the Library Configuration screen, select the Define Drive/Tape Slots button. When you do so, a Define Library Drive and Tap

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12. Exclude Lists Exclude lists are used to exclude certain files, directories, or devices (such as partitions or logical volumes) from backup jobs. Y

The Clients listbox will only appear when using Network Edition and TSM Edition. You may enter a new exclude list name in the entry field at the to

removing an exclude list that is assigned to current backup jobs, the exclude list will be removed from the job configuration. You will be informed if

13. Backup Jobs A backup job must be created before any backup may be performed by the admin system. A job is not required when running a backup from

Storix System Backup Administrator 74 Version 8.2 User Guide To create a new backup job, enter the Backup Job ID in the entry field at the top. Th

If you selected “local (disk/tape/nfs)” in the Server field, then you may only select one client from the list, since that client will be sending the

Additional Options Answers to the following question buttons may be used to override the default actions taken during a backup: • Use alternate serve

• Verify backup when complete: If you want to automatically verify a backup by re-reading the data on the backup media once the backup completes, ch

Creating a Local System Backup Using Network Edition, it is possible to setup a backup job to perform a System Backup of a client to its own locally-a

Storix System Backup Administrator 79 Version 8.2 User Guide 1. Select Configure!Backup Jobs from the menu bar, then type or select the Job ID at t

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Storix System Backup Administrator 80 Version 8.2 User Guide Running a Backup Job on Demand Any backup job, whether it is currently scheduled or no

Copying Backups to Different Media, but this requires you to manually select a backup that was previously created. If configured, a new copy backup jo

Storix System Backup Administrator 82 Version 8.2 User Guide Host Read Permission For backups to a directory on a backup media server, setting this

1. Immediately after backup: If selected, a new copy backup job will be created and placed in the Job Queue immediately after successful completion o

14. Holidays There may be days of the year, even days of the month, that you don’t want any of your backup jobs to run. On holidays, for instance, th

When using the web interface the screen presented will look slightly different. To add a holiday, simply click on the date from the calendar. The date

15. Snapshot Backups Snapshot feature is available only for AIX systems running AIX 6.1 and later, for Linux data contained in LVM logical volumes, a

If using Workstation Edition, the Client entry box at the top does not appear. If using Network Edition, you must select the client for

original data is changed, which may have a greater impact on system performance during the backup. The default of 64 Kbytes is sufficient for most pur

16. Job Queues When jobs are run, they are actually placed in a job queue. A job queue will exist for each device on each server, and a "disk&quo

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The center area contains the jobs currently in the queue. The jobs are placed, and will be run, in the order they were added to the queue. To show a s

Storix System Backup Administrator 91 Version 8.2 User Guide The Job ID, Server (if Network Edition) and Device are shown at the top of the screen

Scrollbars are provided to the right of each display panel in case the output exceeds the size of the panel. The Job ID, server, device, and client

The Job Message Screen Since many jobs run automatically after being scheduled to run at a certain date and time, there may not always be a person wa

A scrollbar is provided to the right to scroll up and down the messages. This screen may only be displayed if the Backup Administrator application is

Restart a Job A job which is either on hold, had previously failed, or had been killed, may be started, or restarted, by pressing the Restart button f

17. Backup Labels A backup label is generated for each backup that is started at the beginning of a tape as well as for any backups stored to disk fil

The Tape Label ID for each volume is shown at the bottom. The tape label IDs will be shown in the backup label if a previous backup containing tape la

View by Backup ID Select View!Backup Labels!By Backup ID from the menu bar. A list of all labels will be displayed as shown below: This list could b

To view the backup label, select the button on the line with the corresponding backup id. View by Tape Label ID To display the backup label in which