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3 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on Symantec™ Backup Exec™ | April 2015
Table of contents
Executive summary ................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1 Installing and configuring the DR Series system ....................................................................................................................... 6
2 Configuring the DR Series system as a backup to disk target on Symantec Backup Exec .......................................... 10
2.1 Creating a CIFS Container for use with Symantec Backup Exec 2012, 2014, and 2015 .................................... 10
2.2 Adding the DR Series system container share as a disk storage device on Backup Exec 2012/2014/2015 . 13
2.3 Creating a new backup job with the DR Series system as a target ..........................................................................17
2.4 Setting up DR Series system replication and restore from the replication target ............................................... 25
2.4.1 Creating the replication session ....................................................................................................................................... 25
2.4.2 Restoring from the replication target .............................................................................................................................. 28
3 Configuring VTL ............................................................................................................................................................................... 31
3.1 Creating a VTL container .................................................................................................................................................... 31
3.2 Setting the iSCSI target CHAP credentials ..................................................................................................................... 33
3.3 Configuring the iSCSI target – Windows ........................................................................................................................ 34
3.4 Configuring the iSCSI target – Linux ............................................................................................................................... 38
3.5 Adding additional media to the VTL container ............................................................................................................. 39
3.6 Configuring the DR Series system VTL in Backup Exec ............................................................................................. 41
3.7 Performing backup and restore using DR VTL.............................................................................................................. 46
3.8 Restoring from tape ............................................................................................................................................................. 58
4 Configuring an OST container on the DR Series system for use with Symantec Backup Exec Server 2014/2015 65
4.1 Creating an OST container................................................................................................................................................. 65
4.2 Installing the OST plugin ..................................................................................................................................................... 67
4.3 Configuring the OST device in Backup Exec................................................................................................................. 70
4.4 Performing backup and restore using the DR Series system OST device ............................................................. 76
4.6 Restoring data ........................................................................................................................................................................ 86
5 Setting up the DR Series system cleaner ................................................................................................................................... 93
6 Monitoring deduplication, compression, and performance ................................................................................................ 94
A Setting data expiration for Backup Exec 2012/2014/2015 .................................................................................................... 95
B Installing Backup Exec Agent on Linux client (RALUS) ........................................................................................................... 96
C VTL configuration guidelines ........................................................................................................................................................ 97
C.1 Installing latest Backup Exec service packs for the DR Series system iSCSI VTL capability .............................. 97
C.2 Managing VTL media and space use................................................................................................................................ 97