Scheduled backup
In this screen, you can:
- Add a scheduled backup.
- Add a level to an existing scheduled backup.
- Remove a scheduled backup or level.
A scheduled backup works with the Arkeia backup
elements:
- Tapes
- Tape pools (for backup to tape only)
- Tape drives or VTL
- Tape drivepacks or VTL drivepacks
- Savepacks
You must create these elements before you can configure a scheduled
backup job.
To create tape pools, drivepacks, tapes, drives and VTLs in Arkeia,
click on Home > Where to backup
in the navigation tree at the left.
To create Savepacks, click on Home >
What to backup
in the navigation tree at the left.
Task scheduler
The task scheduler lists the existing scheduled backups.
- Select a backup
- List of scheduled backup names. Beneath each name in this list are
the levels configured for this backup. Click on the level to configure
it. See Schedule a level below to see how to
do this.
- Information
-
- State
- If the box is checked, this scheduled backup is active. If the
box is unchecked, then this backup will never run.
- Owner
- The ownership of the backup can be chosen from the drop
list.
- Notification
- If this box is checked, email notification will be sent to the
owner, provided this person's email address is entered in the user
configuration.
- Verbosity
- Choose Low or High to adjust the volume of email notifications
sent.
- Send
- Choose the conditions for sending email notifications.
- Always
- Always send notifications.
- If backed up partially
- Some files could not be backed up.
- If backup failed
- No files could backed up.
Click on Validate
to confirm any changes made.
Add a new scheduled backup
Click on Add a new scheduled
backup
in the actions menu.
- Name of the new scheduled backup
- Enter a name by which this backup job will be identified.
- Owner
- Choose an owner from the drop list. The Arkeia permissions
belonging to the owner will apply to this backup job.
- Savepack
- Choose the Savepack of files to be backed up in this backup job.
- Drivepack
- Choose the Drivepack which will write the backup data set.
- Pool
- Choose the tape pool containing the tapes on which the backup data
set will be written.
After adding a new scheduled backup, at least one level must be
scheduled.
Schedule a level
When a new scheduled backup is created, it has one level with some
default values for periodicity and other properties. You will probably
want to adjust these properties, and perhaps add one or two more
levels.
Click on the level to be configured to open the settings screens.
Periodicity
Periodicity defines the length of time between one backup
and the next.
- Repeat at
- Click the clock icon to set the time of day at which this backup
will start.
- Every
- Enter a number, and choose the time period at which the backup
will be repeated.
- Starting on
- Click on the calendar icon to choose the start date for this
backup schedule.
- Repeat until
- Choose the number of backups to be done, an end date, or no
end.
Click on Validate
to save the backup period for this
level.
Configuration
In this screen, the Arkeia backup elements,
which have been created previously, are nominated.
- Savepack
- Select the Savepack of files to be backed up.
- Drivepack
- Select the Drivepack containing the drives which will write this
backup data set.
- Pool
- Select the Tape pool from which tapes for this backup data set
will be taken.
- Backup type
- Choose the type of backup for this level. See
Home > When
to backup > Scheduled backup > help
for an explanation of
the backup types.
- Tape strategy
- Determines when a new tape will be used:
- Complete existing tapes
- This backup will be written on the last tape, starting at the
end of the last backup.
- New tape at level break
- If this backup job is at a different level to the last backup, a new tape will be used.
- Always use a new tape
- A new tape will be used every time this backup job is started.
- Parallelism
- Select the number of simultaneous data flows to use in this backup job.
- Chain disk-to-tape
- This backup will be copied from the used
VTL
to physical tapes, if the following conditions are met:
Yes
is selected
- the Disk-to-Tape object has been configured (
Home >
Where to backup > Disk-to-Tape > Disk-to-Tape
Setup
)
- the
VTL
holding the backup data set is on the
same Media Server as one of the tape drives from the Disk-to-Tape
object
- one of these tape drives is ready
- Advanced params
- Enter a parameter, and its value, to set before this backup job runs. Click on
Add
to confirm the parameter.
Click on Validate
to save this configuration.
Advanced options
- System command
- Enter a shell script command to run on the backup server
before starting the backup. The syntax is as follows:
/path/command
- Before command
- Enter a shell script command to run on the backup server
before the backup starts.
- Execute if command failed
- By default, the backup will not start if the
Before command
fails.
Click on this box if you want the backup to run even if the Before command
fails.
- After command
- Enter a shell script command to run on the backup server after the backup.
- Cruise control
- Enter a value for the upper limit of the data transfer
rate. This is useful if you do not want the backup to monopolize the
network bandwidth. You can leave this field blank.
Click on Validate
to save this configuration.
Exceptions
It may be necessary to cancel the backup on a specific date or
dates. Click on the dates in the calendar on which the backup job must
not be run.
Click on Validate
to save this configuration.
Add a level to a backup
Click on the backup name in the Select a backup
list,
then click on Add a level to...
to add a level to this
backup.
When the new level appears in the list, click on it and configure it
as described in Schedule a level above.
Remove a backup or level
To remove a backup or level, highlight it in the Select a backup
list,
then click on Delete...
to remove it.