Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on HP Data Protector® 7.
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Table of contents Executive summary ................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 3 1 Installing and configuring the DR Series system ....................................................................................................................... 5 2 Setting up HP Data Protector ....................................................................................
Executive summary This document provides information about how to set up the Dell DR Series system as a backup target for HP Data Protector 7.0. For additional information, see the DR Series system documentation and other data management application best practices whitepapers for your specific DR Series system at: http://www.dell.
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, refer to the sections, “iDRAC Connection”, “Logging in and Initializing the DR Series System”, and “Accessing IDRAC6/Idrac7 Using RACADM” for information about using the iDRAC connection and initializing the appliance. 2. Log on to iDRAC using the default address 192.168.0.120, or the IP that is assigned to the iDRAC interface.
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 on HP Data Protector® 7.
. Log on to DR Series System administrator console using the IP address with the username administrator and password St0r@ge! (The “0” in the password is the numeral zero.). 8. Join the DR Series System to Active Directory. Note: if you do not want to add the DR Series system to Active Directory, see the DR Series System Owner’s Manual for guest logon instructions. a. Select Active Directory from the left navigation area of the DR Series system GUI. b. Enter your Active Directory credentials.
9. You now need to create and mount the container. Select Containers in the left navigation area, and then click Create at the top of the page. 8 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on HP Data Protector® 7.
10. Enter a Container Name and click Next. 11. Select NAS (NFS, CIFS) and click Next. (HP Data Protector supports both CIFS and NFS protocols.) 9 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on HP Data Protector® 7.
12. Select the NFS/CIFS protocol(s) as appropriate and click Next. 13. For NFS, set the client access credentials and click Next. 10 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on HP Data Protector® 7.
14. For CIFS, set the client access credentials and click Next. Note: For improved security, Dell recommends adding IP addresses for the following (Not all environments will have all components): Backup console (HP Data Protector Server, HP Data Protector Clients) 15. Click Create a New Container. Confirm that the container is added. 16. Select the Container and click Edit. Reconfigure client access permissions if required and click Next. 11 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on HP Data Protector® 7.
17. Click Modify this container to save any changes or click Cancel to exit. 12 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on HP Data Protector® 7.
2 Setting up HP Data Protector 2.1 Backing up in the Windows environment 1. Open HP Data Protector Manager. Click Configure New Devices, which opens the Devices & Media menu. 2. Right-click Devices and choose Add Device. In the next window, specify the Device Name and Description that identifies the File Library Device. Select File Library for the Device Type, and enter the information for the Client. Click Next. 13 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on HP Data Protector® 7.
Note: The Windows service account for HP Data Protector requires appropriate permissions to the DR container share for the step below to complete successfully. See Appendix A for information about setting up the HP Data Protector service account correctly. This should be done before the next step. 3. The next window asks for the path to the library that is the UNC path to the DR container share. Specify a list of directories for the library.
4. The Media Type default is File. Click Next. 5. Click Next. The Summary window shows the total physical storage size of that particular File Library Device on the DR container. 6. Click Finish. In the next window, click Close to close it. 15 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on HP Data Protector® 7.
2.2 Backing up in the Unix/Linux Environment The procedure for the Unix/Linux environment is similar to the procedure for the Windows environment described in the previous section. One difference is that in Step#3, you need to enter the UNIX path of the DR container export instead of a UNC path, as described below. For other details, please refer to the procedure for backing up Windows Environment.
3 Creating a new backup job with the DR Series system as the target 1. In the HP Data Protector Manager, in the Context List drop-down menu, click Backup. In the Scoping Pane, expand Backup and then click Backup Specifications. In the expanded sub-tree view, right-click the Filesystem item and select Add Backup. 2. Select the Blank File system Backup template and click OK. 3. Check any source data set that needs to be backed up. In this example, it’s the whole local “C:\” drive. Then click Next.
4. Select the devices or drives to be used as the backup target. In this example, it’s the DR container share/export created in previous section. Check the Properties and define other parameters as needed, and then click Next. 5. Check and verify the Backup Specification Options using the Advanced button. Then, in the Filesystem Options section, click Advanced. 18 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on HP Data Protector® 7.
6. In Filesystem Options, click the Other tab. Make sure Software compression is not selected, and that Data security is set to None. Note: Always disable Software compression, as the DR Series system has compression built-in and does not require additional compression on HP Data Protector. In general, additional data compression on backup software will have a negative impact on the total savings of the DR Series system.
to the DR Series system device prevents the data from being able to be deduplicated, which would have a significant negative impact on total savings of the DR Series system. 7. Define Backup Job Schedule options and click Next. 8. Review the Backup Job Summary. Click Next. 9. Specify a name for the Backup Job. Click Save As to save the newly configured backup specification. 20 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on HP Data Protector® 7.
10. (This step is Optional, or it can be completed when the scheduled backup completes.) Click Start Backup to run the backup. When the Start Backup window opens, click OK to start the backup. The Backup window displays the progress of the backup session. The Session Information window will tell you when the backup is completed. 21 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on HP Data Protector® 7.
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4 Setting up DR-native replication and restore from a target container 4.1 Building the replication relationship between DR Series systems This procedure assumes that on both the source and target DR Series system, a container has already been created for each of them. In this example, this container is called “backup”. Also, the target container should not be used for anything else and should be empty, with the same Connection Type as the source container. 1.
5. Verify that the replication session is created which will display the Peer State as Online. 6. Monitor the replication progress under Replication Statistics, and make sure the replication Status is INSYNC. 4.2 24 Running a backup for the source DR Series system Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on HP Data Protector® 7.
This procedure is optional, that is, it is only for when there is no backup data on the source DR container. 1. Add both a source DR Series system and target DR Series system as devices on HP Data Protector. Then, create a New Backup Job with the source DR Series system as the target. 2. In the Start Backup window, click OK to start the backup using the appropriate settings. Monitor job status. 3. When the backup job is completed, HP Data Protector creates backup files using the suffix '.
Source DR Target DR 26 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on HP Data Protector® 7.
4.3 Preparing a replication target for restore 1. In HP Data Protector, go to Devices & Media > Media > Pools, and right-click the Media Pool associated with the source container device and the backup set that needs to be restored. Click Export. NOTE: If the media pool is protected and cannot be exported, you should perform a Recycle before Export. 27 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on HP Data Protector® 7.
2. Under Devices & Media > Devices, expand the source container device node, and delete the device object that is associated with the backup set. 3. Open the HP Data Protector CLI console, and then use the command utility “omnidownload” to download the source container library configuration from IDB. NOTE: Refer to Appendix C for information about how to use the command “omnidownload”. 28 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on HP Data Protector® 7.
4. Edit the file, modify or add the object information to point to the target DR Series system, and save this file. 5. Upload this modified configuration file to IDB using the command, omniupload. 29 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on HP Data Protector® 7.
6. Expand the device node, and Import the device object from the target device. 7. 30 Click Next. Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on HP Data Protector® 7.
9. Select the Import Copy as Original checkbox, and then click Finish. 10. Verify that the import is done successfully. 31 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on HP Data Protector® 7.
4.4 Restoring from a target DR Series system 1. In the HP Data Protector Manager, in the Context List drop-down menu, select Restore. Run the restore session that is associated to the backup set, click Restore. 2. Verify that the restore is done successfully. 32 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on HP Data Protector® 7.
5 Setting up the DR Series system cleaner Performing scheduled disk space reclamation operations are recommended as a method for recovering disk space from system containers in which files were deleted as a result of deduplication. The cleaner runs during idle time. If your workflow does not have a sufficient amount of idle time on a daily basis, then you should consider scheduling the cleaner to force it to run during a scheduled time.
6 Monitoring deduplication, compression, and performance After backup jobs have run, the DR Series system tracks capacity, storage savings, and throughput on the DR Series system dashboard. This information is valuable in understanding the benefits of the DR Series system. Note: Deduplication ratios increase over time. It is not uncommon to see a 2-4x reduction (25-50% total savings) on the initial backup. As additional full backup jobs are completed, the ratios will increase.
A Creating a storage device for CIFS There are two options for HP Data Protector to authenticate to the DR Series system through CIFS. DR joined into domain: Integrate HP Data Protector Server and DR Series System with Active Directory o Ensure the AD user has appropriate ACLs to the DR Series System Container share o Set the HP Data Protector service to run with this AD user DR is standalone CIFS server: Make sure HP Data Protector Inet service and CRS service use the same Log On user
NOTE: Do this step only when no backups are currently running, as restarting the services causes backup jobs to fail. Double-click the services one at a time. If you are using local synced accounts rather than the AD account, make sure that there is a “.\”in front of the user name. 4. Click OK. 5. After changing both services for HP Data Protector, select Stop/Start to restart the two services. 36 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on HP Data Protector® 7.
B Creating a storage device for NFS For NFS backup using the HP Data Protector, a target folder needs to be created as NFS share directory. This is the location to which backup objects will be written. This is not required while adding CIFS share. 1. Mount the DR Series System NFS share onto the NFS share directory which backup objects will be written in the HP Data Protector environment. 2. Verify the NFS share. One way is to try using the Linux command “cat /proc/mounts”.
C User commands Omnidownload Downloads information about a backup device and a library from the Data Protector internal Database (IDB). This command is available on systems with the Data Protector User Interface component installed. Examples: To review the information about a virtual tape library named "VTL" in ASCII format that will be saved as the file "libVTL.txt" to the directory "C:\Temp", run: omnidownload -library VTL -file C:\Temp\libVTL.
