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Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5 Dell Engineering September 2015 A Dell Technical White Paper - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 2
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Setting up for Unix/Linux environment backup ...11 2.1 Creating the backup set...11 2.2 Creating the storage devices ...12 3 Creating a new backup job with the DR Series system , compression and performance 31 3 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5 - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 4
provides information about how to set up the Dell DR Series system as a backup target for Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5. For additional information, see the DR Series system documentation and other data management application best practices whitepapers for your specific DR Series system at: http://www - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 5
on. In the Dell DR Series System Administrator Guide, see the appliance. 2. Log on to iDRAC using the default address 192.168.0.120, or the IP address that is assigned to the iDRAC interface by using the user name and password of "root/calvin". 3. Launch the virtual console. 5 Setting Up the Dell - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 6
on to the system as the user administrator with the password St0r@ge! (The "0" in the password is the numeral zero). 5. Set the user-defined networking preferences. 6. View the summary of preferences and confirm that it is correct. 6 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 7
The "0" in the password is the numeral zero.). 8. Join the DR Series system to Active Directory. Note: if you do not want to add the DR Series system to Active Directory, see the DR Series System Owner's Manual for guest logon instructions. a. Under System Configuration, select Active Directory from - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 8
9. Create and mount the container by selecting Containers in the left navigation area, and then clicking the Create link at the top of the page. 10. Enter a container name and click Next. 8 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5 - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 9
11. Select the protocol as NAS (NFS, CIFS) and then click Next. 12. Select NFS as the access protocol and the Marker Type as Unix Dump, and then click Next. 9 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5 - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 10
13. Configure the NFS client access settings and click Next. 14. Review the summary and then click Create a New Container. 15. Confirm that the container is added. 10 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5 - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 11
incremental); schedules are automatically configured. Follow these steps to create a backup set. 1. On the Admin tab, click backup sets, enter the name and other details for the backup set as needed, and then click Add. 11 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 12
the Amanda backup server: mkdir -p /mnt/DR_container_amanda chmod -R 700 '/mnt/DR_container_amanda' chown -R amandabackup:disk '/mnt/DR_container_amanda' mount -t nfs :/containers/amanda-src /mnt/DR_container_amanda Then, follow these steps to create the storage devices. 1. On the Admin tab - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 13
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and directories to include in the backup set. 1. On the Backup tab, click what, and on the File Systems drop-down menu, select Linux. 2. Enter the host name and location of the folder to back up, and then click Add. Note: For better space savings, Dell recommends that the Encrypt and Compress - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 15
set will be listed at the bottom of the management console window. 3.2 Defining where to back up 1. On the Backup tab in the zmanda Management Console for Amanda, click where. 2. Select the storage device that you created previously (that is, the DR Series system), and then click Use. 3. Click - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 16
The DR Series system is added. 16 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5 - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 17
image on the server's hard disk. Because backups can be written in parallel to the staging area, backups can be completed in smaller windows than if writing directly to the device. To set up a staging configuration, on the Backup tab, click staging. You can change the default options as needed. For - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 18
2. Select a backup set at the bottom of the management console page. 3. Modify the settings as needed, and then click Update. Note: For information about limits on the number of parallel streams supported or backups to the DR Series system, see the Dell DR Series System Interoperability Guide. 18 - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 19
set. 3. For immediate execution of a backup set, click Start Backup Now in the Immediate Backup section. You can execute an immediate backup at any time. When an Immediate Backup is run, you can observe the progress of the backup in the Monitor page. 19 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 20
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restore from pane, specify which backup image is to be restored. 3. Do one of the following: Click the Explore & Select button to specify more detailed When you have selected all required directories/files, click Restore Where. 21 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 22
. Make sure the required tapes are in the tape changer (in the slots reserved for the backup set) if the restore is from a tape. 2. Enter information for the Destination Host Name, Destination Location, and select the other restore settings and then click Next. Note: The destination hostname can be - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 23
this page you can configure the conflict resolution policies during restoration of file system. 4.4 Note: You can select different options for directory and file name conflicts. Dell recommends to restore to a new directory so there will be no conflicts. Performing the restore 1. On the Restore - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 24
3. Click the Restore button to start the restore process. 24 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5 - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 25
backups have been taken on the source or after the source has some backups. Select the option, Select container from remote system b. Enter the target DR Series system logon credentials. c. Click Retrieve Remote Containers, and then select the target container from the list. 25 Setting Up the Dell - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 26
5. Click Create Replication. 6. Verify that the replication is created successfully, and that the Status column shows a check box for the replication session. 26 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5 - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 27
Series system GUI, navigate to the Replication page by selecting Replication in the left navigation area. 2. Select the replication pair, and click Stop. Follow the on-screen prompts and click Stop Selected Replication. 27 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 28
to a warning when the replication stops. 3. Delete the replication by selecting the replication pair and clicking Delete at the top of the page. Follow the on-screen prompts and then click Delete Selected Replication. 28 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 29
/replication-target /mnt/DRNFSContainer 6. For the instructions for restoring, refer to the section in this document, Creating a new restore job. NOTE: The device name and backup set remains the same for restoring data from the replication target. 29 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 30
Series system cleaner Performing scheduled disk space reclamation operations are recommended as a method for recovering disk space from system containers per week when backups are not taking place, and generally after a backup job has completed. Schedule Cleaner 30 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series - Dell DR4300 | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amand - Page 31
7 Monitoring deduplication, compression and performance After backup jobs have run, the DR Series system 2-4x reduction (25-50% total savings) on the initial backup. As additional full backup jobs are completed, the ratios will increase. Backup jobs with a 12-week retention will average a 15x ratio,
A Dell Technical White Paper
Setting Up the Dell
™
DR Series System as an NFS Target on
Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5
Dell Engineering
September 2015