White Papers

Table of contents
1 Installing and configuring the DR Series system ....................................................................................................................... 5
2 Configuring a backup job on ASG-Time Navigator over a CIFS target ............................................................................. 12
2.1 Configuring a CIFS container as a TiNa-library ............................................................................................................ 12
2.2 Creating a media pool and attaching the TiNa library ................................................................................................ 14
2.3 Configuring the TiNa backup strategy ............................................................................................................................ 15
2.4 Selecting source data and starting a CIFS backup ........................................................................................................17
2.5 Performing an incremental backup ................................................................................................................................. 20
3 Configuring a restore job on ASG-Time Navigator over a CIFS target .............................................................................. 21
4 Running a duplication and restore job on a secondary CIFS target ................................................................................... 25
5 Configuring a backup job on ASG-Time Navigator over an NFS target ............................................................................ 32
5.1 Configuring the NFS container as a TiNa-library ......................................................................................................... 32
5.2 Creating a media pool and attaching TiNa logical drives .......................................................................................... 34
5.3 Configuring a TiNa backup strategy ................................................................................................................................ 35
5.4 Selecting the data to be backed up and starting a backup job ................................................................................ 36
6 Configuring a restore job on ASG-Time Navigator for an NFS target ............................................................................... 41
7 Running a duplication and restore job on a secondary DR Series system NFS target .................................................. 44
8 Setting up the DR Series system cleaner ................................................................................................................................... 51
9 Monitoring deduplication, compression, and performance ................................................................................................ 52
A Best practices for setting up ASG-Time Navigator backup native Virtual Library System (VLS) on a DR Series
system ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 53
A.1 ASG-Time Navigator nVTL setup /configuration best practice for configuring number and size of each
cartridge ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 53
B Creating a storage device for CIFS .............................................................................................................................................. 55
C Creating a storage device for NFS ............................................................................................................................................... 56
D Launching a Time Navigator administration console on a Linux platform ...................................................................... 57