Configure the following settings to build a new backup schedule. Users can configure the schedule settings in both Basic and Advanced tabs.
Configure the basic settings in the Basic tab. In the Backup Option field, choose a backup option for the scheduled backup job. Refer to Overview of Backup Types for additional information.
*Note: DocAve performs a Full backup when running any Platform backup plan for the first time, regardless of the backup plan chosen. An initial Full backup is mandatory for all plans.
Restore Granularity Level – Select a granularity level from the drop-down list. The generated granular index will be used for recovery to browse the backup data tree and search for the granular contents using Advanced Search feature. You can select Site Collection Level, Site Level, Folder Level, Item Level, Item Version Level, and None.
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Verify Database Backup Data – Choose whether or not to verify the database backup data after a backup job has finished to ensure that the backup data can be used for recovery.
Check Agent Account Permission for Backup – Choose whether or not to check the Agent Account permissions for backup in the Platform Backup job. Select Yes to check the Agent account permissions for backup in the backup job. If you are sure that your Agent Account has the required permissions for using Platform Backup and Restore, select No to skip this process.
Skipping this process may result in faster job times. If the job fails because of insufficient permissions for the Agent account, the backup job report will show the details.
Job Report – Choose the level of reporting for the backup job. Simplified creates a summary of the backup data. Detailed creates a full list of all backup objects at the cost of performance. If you select Storage Manager or Connector BLOB data for backup, the BLOB Details tab will be shown in the Job Monitor Job Details interface.
Type – Select the recurring schedule to use. You can select the radio button of By hour, By day, By week, or By month.
Schedule Settings – Set up the frequency for the scheduled backup job. If you select the Type as By hour, By week, or By month, enter an integer greater than zero to set up a recurring
frequency. To use the advanced settings to configure the job frequency, select the Advanced checkbox to show additional options.
• Advanced settings for By hour:
Specify production time – Select the production time range for the running jobs from the drop-down lists. The start time will be the time in the From field, and then the backup job will run hourly until the time entered in the to field.
Select time below – Select a start time from the drop-down list. The backup job will start at the entered time. You can click Add to add more than one start time.
• Advanced settings for By week – Enter an integer greater than zero into the text box of Run every: _ week(s) and then select the days of the week from the on: _drop-down list. For example, Run every 2 weeks on: Tuesday and Thursday, which means the backup job will run on Tuesday and Thursday every two weeks.
• Advanced settings for By month
On day _ of _ – Run the backup job on the month and date you selected. For example, On day 1 of February, March, and April, which means the backup job will run on the 1th February, 1th March, and 1th April.
Day: _ of every _ month(s) – Run the backup job on the specified date every the number of weeks you specified. For example, Day: 1 of every 2 months, which means the backup job will run on the 1th of this month, and on the 1th of the month after next month, and on the 1th of the month after next three months, until the specified end time.
The: _ _ of every _ month(s) – Run the backup job on the numbered date of week every the number of months you specified. For example, The: Second
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The: _ _ of _ – Run the backup job on the numbered date of the week in the specified month. For example, The: Second Monday of February, March, and April, which means the backup job will run on the second Monday in February, second Monday in March, and second Monday in April.
Range of Recurrence – Select the start time and end time for the schedule.
Select the Advanced tab to configure the advanced settings of the backup schedule. In the Data Transfer Option field, specify whether or not to transfer the backup data from snapshot to media server or defer the data transfer.
• Transfer data from persistent snapshot to backup data storage – Transfers the snapshot data immediately from the hardware to the corresponding storage device after the snapshot is complete. If this option is unchecked, no backup data is written to the storage device.
*Note: If no persistent snapshot is created during the backup job, the snapshot data is always copied to the corresponding logical device regardless of whether or not this option is selected.
• Defer transferring data from persistent snapshot to backup data storage – The snapshot data is not transferred to the storage device during the backup job. If you select this option, the snapshot data is transferred to the corresponding storage device in a scheduled/manual maintenance job that is run after the backup job completes.
• Only use snapshot for backup data – Does not transfer the snapshot data to the media server.
Generate InstaMount Mapping – Choose whether or not to generate the InstaMount mapping in the backup job. Selecting the Generate the InstaMount mapping during backup job option will do so in the backup job; selecting the Defer generating the InstaMount mapping option will defer the generation until the specified time in the Maintenance schedule.
Generate Granular Index– Choose whether or not to generate the granular index in the backup job. Defer generating the granular index will postpone the index generation until the specified time in the Maintenance schedule.
Back up Web Front-End Servers in Parallel – Choose whether or not to back up the Web front-end servers in parallel. Selecting the Back up Web Front-End servers in parallel option requires you to enter in the text box the number of Web front-end servers that you want to back up in parallel.
*Note: Backing up too many Web front-end servers in parallel can overload the Media Service.
*Note: The following recommendations assume that your network bandwidth is 60 MB/s):
If the content under the Extra File System Folder node exceeds 1 GB, 3 or 4 is a recommended maximum number.
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If your content under the Extra File System Folder node does not exceed 1 GB, the maximum number can be larger because the average backup rate is less than 1 MB/s.
Granular Index Method – Choose how to generate the granular index for the backup data.
Sequential generates the index one database at a time on each SQL Server, thereby minimizing the resource requirements. Parallel generates the index for multiple databases simultaneously on each SQL Server.
Run Command with Operation – Select a command profile from the drop-down list to execute before or after the snapshot creation in the backup job. If you do not select the Create
Persistent Snapshots option, this field will not be available to configure.
Back up Stub Database for Selected Scope – Choose whether or not to back up the stub database along with the contents you have selected to back up. This option allows users to perform the granular level restore to restore the stubs from the backed up stub database.
Back up BLOB for Selected Scope ─ Choose whether to back up the BLOB content generated by Storage Manager and the files in the connected path of Connector. Select the corresponding checkboxes if you wish to back up the BLOB data. The BLOB data will be backed up in parallel.
The Connector BLOB will be backed before the Storage Manager BLOB. By default, at most five Connector BLOBs or Storage Manager BLOBs will be backed up at the same time. You can navigate to
the …\AvePoint\DocAve6\Agent\data\SP2010\Platform\SP2010PlatformConfiguration.xml directory to configure the maximum amount of BLOB data to back up in parallel. For more information, refer to Defining the Maximum Number of BLOB Backups Running in Parallel.
*Note: If you want to back up the BLOB data from the file share using VSS, the File Server VSS Agent Service must be enabled on the file server.
Job Time Limit ─ Choose a time limit for this backup job.
• No time limit ─ There is no time limit imposed on any backup job.
• Stop after _ (Minutes, Hours or Days) ─ DocAve will automatically stop this backup job if its running time exceeds the entered time limit.
Click OK to save the configurations as a schedule, or click Cancel to exit the current page without saving any changes.