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- Dell DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 1
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 DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 2
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data from the target DR Series system ...27 6 Setting up the DR Series system cleaner...30 7 Monitoring deduplication, compression and performance 31 3 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5 - Dell DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 4
the DR Series system documentation and other data management application best practices whitepapers for your specific DR Series system at: http://www.dell.com/powervaultmanuals For more information about Amanda, refer to the Amanda documentation at: http://docs.zmanda.com/Project:Amanda_Enterprise_3 - Dell DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 5
1 Installing and configuring the DR Series system 1. Rack and cable the DR Series system, and power it on. In the Dell DR Series System Administrator Guide, see the sections, "iDRAC Connection", "Logging in and Initializing the DR Series system", and "Accessing IDRAC6/Idrac7 Using RACADM," for - Dell DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 6
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 Enterprise 3.3.5 - Dell DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 7
Series System Owner's Manual for guest logon instructions. a. Under System Configuration, select Active Directory from the left navigation area of the DR Series system GUI. b. Enter your Active Directory credentials, and click Join Domain. 7 Setting Up the Dell - Dell DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - 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 DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - 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 DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - 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 DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 11
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 3.3.5 - Dell DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 12
Add. After the storage devices are successfully added, you can see the storage device in the list of backup set devices. 12 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5 - Dell DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 13
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-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 options be set to none. 14 Setting Up the - Dell DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 15
where. 2. Select the storage device that you created previously (that is, the DR Series system), and then click Use. 3. Click Add. 15 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5 - Dell DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - 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 DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 17
windows overlap and the number of backups running at any time. Edit the backup schedule as needed, and then click Update. 17 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5 - Dell DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 18
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 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5 - Dell DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 19
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 NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5 - Dell DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 20
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the Amanda index for the Host Name and the Directory. 5. When you have selected all required directories/files, click Restore Where. 21 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5 - Dell DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 22
. Note: The destination hostname can be a remote machine. The prerequisite for the remote machine is to install the zmanda client software. 22 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5 - Dell DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 23
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 tab, click now - Dell DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - 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 DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 25
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™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5 - Dell DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - 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 DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 27
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 3.3.5 - Dell DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 28
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 3.3.5 - Dell DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 29
Series system replication target container, for example: mount -t nfs :/containers/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 - Dell DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 30
at least 40 hours 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 System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5 - Dell DR4300e | Amanda - Setting Up the DR Series System as an NFS Target on Aman - Page 31
backup jobs are completed, the ratios will increase. Backup jobs with a 12-week retention will average a 15x ratio, in most cases. 31 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5
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