Administrator Guide

3. In Job Title, enter a relevant job title.
4. In the Selections tab, select Data Copy and then Backups or Backup Sets, and navigate to the backup job that you
want to replicate.
5. Select the Backup Options tab, under Data Copy Options select the relevant options.
NOTE: Under Copy Type, by default, options are set for Copy and Optimized replication for the DR Series
systems.
6. Select the Schedule tab, under Schedule Options select one of the following:
• Immediate — To start the backup operation as soon as you save the current backup job.
• Once — To run the backup only once at a scheduled time and date.
• Repeating — To run the backup at a scheduled time and date on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.
• Triggered — To run the backup if the system encounters a pre-specified Trigger name.
7. Under Job Options select the relevant options.
8. Select the Source tab, under Device Options select, Specify Device.
The RDS devices added to NetVault Backup are displayed.
9. Select the relevant source RDS device from the list of displayed devices.
You can select more than one device.
10. Select the Target tab, under Device Options select, Specify Device.
The RDS devices added to NetVault Backup are displayed.
11. Select the relevant target RDS device from the list of displayed devices.
You can select more than one device.
12. Under Media Options and General Options, select the relevant option.
13. Select the Advanced Options tab and select the relevant options.
14. To run the optimized replication job, click the Submit icon.
NOTE: For more information on Dell NetVault Backup, see the Dell NetVault Backup Administrator’s Guide .
Restoring Data From a DR Series System using NetVault Backup
The following steps describe how to use NetVault Backup to restore data from a RDS container on a DR Series system.
To restore data from a DR Series system using NetVault Backup:
1. Start the NetVault Web user interface (UI), and in the Navigation pane, click Create Restore Job.
2. In the saveset table, select the saveset that you want to use, and click Next.
3. On the Create Selection Set page, select the items that you want to restore.
The selection tree is plug-in specific. For more information about selecting data for restores, see the relevant
NetVault Backup plug-in user's guide.
4. Click Edit Plugin Options, and configure the options that you want to use and then click Next.
These options are plug-in specific. For more information about these options, see the relevant NetVault Backup
plug-in user's guide.
5. On the Create Restore Job page, specify a name for the job. Assign a descriptive name that allows you to easily
identify the job for monitoring its progress.
A job name can contain alphanumeric and non-alphanumeric characters, but it cannot contain non-Latin
characters. There is no length restriction. However, a maximum of 40 characters is recommended on all platforms.
6. In the Target Client list, select the restore target as follows:
• To restore data to the same client (from which data was backed up), use the default setting.
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