CLUSTER ADMINISTRATION

Go into “Cluster Administrator” and create a new resource under an existing group by doing the following:

• Highlight an existing group and click “File”/”New”/”Resource.” Type

<UBSCHEDULER> for the name, <ultrabac scheduler service> for the description, click the drop-down box, and choose “Generic Service” for the resource type. The group under which the service is to be created should already be chosen. Click “Next.”

• Add both the nodes in the cluster server to the right hand column, and click “Next.”

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• In the “Dependencies” dialog box, add the physical disk on which the

“ultrabac7_data” share was created, and click “Next.”

• Type <UBSCHEDULER> as the service name, and click “Next.”

• Click “Finish” in the “Registry Replication” screen and bring the newly created resource online by right-clicking on it, and choosing “Bring Online.”

RESTORE

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Restoration

UltraBac is programmed to use the high-speed retrieval logic available in most high capacity SCSI storage media drives. High speed restorations require the exact location of the files to be restored by accessing the index of files located either on the storage media itself, or on an online disk. There are two methods to retrieve the index.

Click the Restore icon on the toolbar, or click “File”/”Load Index for Restore/Verify,” and you'll have two options: “Retrieve from online index” and “Retrieve from storage media.”

• “Retrieve from online disk index” – This is the fastest method as reading information from disk is much faster than reading it from tape. When UltraBac executes a backup, it automatically writes an index to disk, thereby creating speed and efficiency at the time of restore. The online index default location is: “C:\Program Files\UltraBac Software\UltraBac7\indexes”. To use this option, either double-click on “Retrieve from online disk index,” or highlight it and click “Next.” UltraBac will display all the indexes that exist on disk with a backup description, the date and time of the backup, the agent used to run the backup, and the name of the index file. You'll most likely be identifying the backup from its description. Example:

Load the index by either double-clicking on it, or highlight it and click “Next.” Only one index at a time may be loaded.

• “Retrieve from storage media” – The device defined in “Select”/”Storage Device”

will be the global storage device that UltraBac will retrieve its data from when loading the index. For example, if the index was to be retrieved from a remote storage device, make sure that the correct device is selected under “Select”/”Storage

device”/”Remote” before trying to use this function.

Retrieving the index from storage media can be slow, depending on whether the “Express Index” exists. The “Express Index” places a file on the very beginning of the tape, allowing the index to be quickly retrieved. The file placed on the beginning of the tape works in conjunction with a small file on disk in the UltraBac7 directory (default location:

“C:\Program Files\UltraBac Software\UltraBac7\express”). If the express index file is missing from disk, UltraBac will read the tape and retrieve each index sequentially. This process can take quite a while depending on the size of the tape. You'll be able to see the indexes appear one by one in the “Select Index” box as UltraBac searches the tape. When UltraBac is finished scanning the tape for indexes, the “Searching...” text will disappear.

Load the index by either double-clicking on it, or highlight it and click “Next.” Only one index at a time may be loaded.

When the index is retrieved, an Explorer-like screen displaying the files in hierarchical order will appear. The directory structure is expandable by clicking the plus sign to traverse

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Continuing with the restore, click “Operations”/”Restore Selected Files.” The “Restore Options” dialog box has many selections, allowing the user to restore to an alternate location, determine overwrite options, etc.

Restore Registry (UltraBac 6 and older backups) – Check this box if you're restoring the registry from a previous version of UltraBac (Version 6).

Maintain directory structure on Restore – If the directory to be restored resides in a lower level of a directory tree, checking this preference will restore the directory tree down to the one being restored. (This is selected by default.)

Maintain compression on files during Restore – If a file was backed up with the compression attribute turned on, it will be restored as such if this preference is checked.

Restore in-use files – If a file is in use and UltraBac is trying to restore it, this preference will force the restoration instead of skipping it. NOTE: If the file is in use while it's restored, all current changes will be lost the next time the computer is rebooted.

Restore permissions AND Restore folder permissions – Check if previously existing permissions are to be restored.

Overwrite option

• Never – If the file being restored already exists on the target drive, UltraBac will skip it.

• Always – UltraBac will overwrite all files with the same name as the files being restored.

• Update Only – If the file being restored has a modified date older than the existing file, it will not be restored.

• Ask – When this radio button is selected, UltraBac will display a pop-up message every time it comes across a duplicate file asking the user to select an interactive overwrite option. Depending on how many duplicate files there are on the target restore drive, this box can eventually become very tedious, especially if the user doesn't care about the files that are to be overwritten. For example, imagine being asked interactively during the restore if you want every “.dll” file in the

WINNT\system32 directory to be restored.

The options available for a duplicate file are:

• Skip File – Do not restore the file from storage media. Continue processing the remainder of the files to be restored.

• Update – Only restore if the file on the storage media is newer than the duplicate file on disk. This comparison is based on the file's date and time attributes.

• Overwrite – Restore the file from storage media and overwrite the duplicate file on

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if a web designer was building a new machine and wanted all of the “.jpeg” files moved from the old web development machine to the new one, the backup administrator could simply use this option to restore all the needed files to the newly required location. Here is one example showing how to utilize this feature step by step, assuming the index has already been loaded:

• Right-click on the parent directory containing the files to be restored, and click

“Include 'directory'.“

• Type <* and the file extension> to be included in the restore. If all executables were to be included, type <*.exe> in the “File Name” box.

• By clicking “OK,” all the directories and subdirectories containing the files with the specified extension will be highlighted.

• Restore selected files.