Running and Scheduling Backups

What are the parts to put together Data to be backed up SubClient How to back it up and copies to make Storage Policy Schedule When to run a Job for the SubClient Job Actual Dataset created

Key Commvault Terms Job – Every backup activity. Has a unique ID and also represents the dataset. Schedules– When and how frequent to run a Job. Set per-Job basis or via a Schedule Policy SubClient – A logical object created under a client agent that defines what data to be backed up using which Storage Policy

CommVault clients and agents Intelligent Data Agent (iDA) FileSystem Agent Exchange DB Agent Exchange Mailbox Agent SQL DB Agent SharePoint Doc Agent SharePoint DB Agent Oracle DB Agent Domino Notes Doc Agent Domino Notes DB Agent etc PC Desktop Win Server UNIX Server Linux Server CommVault Client

Client object structure Job related settings: “which storage policy to use” Agent related settings : “Exchange login account” CommVault Client Filesystem iDataAgent Exchange iDataAgent Oracle iDataAgent SubClient 1 C:\ SubClient 1 “Exchng Info Store” SubClient 1 “orcl” instance SubClient 2 D:\ SubClient 1 “Exchng DB2” SubClient 2 “HR” instance

Subclient examples Subclient Type Subclient Content Filesystem Subclient D:\ Exchange DB Subclient Exchange mail DB 3 Exchange Mailbox Subclient Exchange User Mailbox “user1” MS-SQL DB Subclient SQL DB “datadb2” MS-SharePoint DB Subclient SharePoint Content DB 1-3 CommVault iDAs

Subclient rules DEFAULT subclient always exists and represents all the content for the client – for example all drives & system_state User-created subclients cannot overlap in terms of data. Filesystem iDataAgent SubClient 1 C:\ SubClient 3 D:\data Cannot be created as it overlaps with SubClient 2 SubClient 2 D:\

Filesystem iDataAgent What is a backupset BackupSet is only used if you need to define a SubClient which overlap existing SubClient content Filesystem iDataAgent DefaultBackupSet NewBackupSet SubClient 1 C:\ SubClient 3 D:\data SubClient 2 D:\

Client and Subclient in the gui BackupSet

Inside a subclient Content – the data on the client to be protected Storage Device – the Storage Policy to use, compression & deduplication & stream settings Pre & Post Scripts – customized scripts can be used to run pre-job and post-job

Jobs

Running backups Right-click a SubClient and choose option to “Backup” Choose the type of backup Full Incremental Differential Synthetic Full Choose when to run it Create a permanent schedule Create a one-time schedule Run it immediately

Choosing the right type of backup Synthetic FULL – Full backup/archive copy created internally by CommVault by assembling last full and incremental copies. Works for files, email and documents. Full, Incremental/Differential and Synthetic Full backups should have its own schedules SubClient 1 Sched Name Sched Type Sched Timing OneTimeFull Full 1 Jan 00:00 DailyIncr Incremental Mon – Fri 00:00 WeeklySynFull Synthetic Full Sat 22:00

More on scheduling You can view the SubClient schedules individually by SubClient or for the entire CommCell Schedule Policies – Define a fixed schedule and apply it to multiple subclients. Useful in big customer environment where you have many SubClients and it is difficult to schedule each SubClient one-by-one.

Making copies To trigger the 2nd or 3rd copies in the Storage Policy, you need to run a process called Auxiliary Copy AUX Copy– A copy of a backup/archive dataset (Job). DASH Copy – An AUX Copy that makes a replicated copy of a Job over to another Media Agent with Deduplication during the transport process

Scheduling aux copy Similar to scheduling or running Backups Immediate Scheduled Automatic every 30 minutes Run from Storage Policy, NOT SubClient Schedule Policies can also be created to apply to AUX Copies Backup Run from SubClient level Apply to that specific SubClient AUX Copy Run from Storage Policy Apply to all SubClients using that Storage Policy

Viewing running Jobs Job Controller Job details Shows Jobs (Backup or Aux Copy) running and status Job will disappear after about 5 minutes afterJob completion Job ID is unique identifier of the Job and the completed dataset Job details Double-click to get more detailed info about each Job

Summary of Creating backups 1. Create a SubClient SubClient 2. Associate it to Storage Policy Storage Policy Backup Job Aux Copy Job 3. Run or Schedule from SubClient 4. Run or Schedule from Storage Policy View from JOB CONTROLLER

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