This chapter explains how to create and use selection sets. The information in this chapter is organized into the following topics:
Selection Sets – An Overview Creating a Selection Set Applying a Selection Set Modifying a Selection Set Copying a Selection Set Deleting a Selection Set
7.1 Selection Sets – An Overview
Selection sets provide an efficient way to define jobs. They store job properties that can be quickly and easily applied to multiple jobs, and changed with minimum effort. With selection sets, you do not have to perform each task manually while defining a new job. You can use the settings saved when defining a previous job and apply them to the new job in a single step. For example, you can save the data selected for a full backup in a Backup Selection Set and use this set when defining an incremental or differential backup job. This eliminates the need to select each item manually for the new job while ensuring that the same set of files is backed up each time and no file is accidentally omitted.
Selection sets also make it easy to re-configure the parameters and apply new settings to multiple jobs. For example, you can change the day, date or time in a Schedule Set to automatically change the job execution schedule for multiple jobs, or target a new device for backups by changing the Target Set.
You can use the following types of selection sets in NetVault: Backup:
Backup Selection Set – To save a backup selection list.
Backup Options Set – To save backup options.
Schedule Set – To save the job schedule for a backup, restore or report job.
Source Set – To save the source drive options which specify where the source media for a data copy, backup consolidation or restore job is located.
Target Set – To save the target drive(s) and/or media options for a backup job.
Advanced Options Set – To save advanced backup or restore options.
These selection sets are generated from the corresponding tab on the Backup, Restore and Report Job Editor windows. You can also generate sets for policy jobs from the NetVault Policy Editor window.
Note: A policy-based backup job can only be defined using selection sets.
7.2 Creating a Selection Set
To create a selection set, perform the following steps:
1. Depending on the task you want to perform, refer to the following steps: a. Create Selection Sets for Regular Backups – Open the Backup
window, if the window is not already open.
b. Create Selection Sets for Policy Backups – If the the NetVault Policy Editor window is not open, perform the following steps:
1. Open the Policy Management window (on the Administration menu, click Policy Management).
2. Click New Policy on the toolbar. Alternatively, on the File menu, click New Policy.
3. In the NetVault Policy Editor window, click Manage Sets. This opens the NetVault Set Management window, which is similar to the Backup window.
c. Create Selection Sets for Restore Jobs – Open the Restore window, if the window is not already open.
d. Create Schedule Sets for Report Jobs – If the Report Job Editor window is not already open, perform the following steps:
1. Open the Reports window.
2. Click Report Job on the toolbar. Alternatively, on the Reports menu, click Report Job.
2. Depending on the set type, click the corresponding tab.
3. Select the required data, or configure the required options. For more information on data selection and job options, refer to the relevant section in this guide or the APM/Plugin User’s Guide.
For example, to create a backup selection set, click the Backup Selections tab and select the data for backup. To create a schedule set, configure the scheduling options in the Backup, Restore or Report Job Editor windows.
Figure 7-1: The Backup Selection Set options displayed at the bottom of the Selections tab
4. Click Save As under <Set Type> Set at the bottom of the tab.
5. In the Save <Set Type> Set window, enter a unique name for the set in the box provided.
6. Click OK.
7.3 Applying a Selection Set
To apply a selection set, perform the following steps:
1. If the corresponding window is not already open, perform step 1 described in the section Creating a Selection Seton page 104.
2. Click the corresponding tab.
Figure 7-2:
To apply the save selections to the current job, select the set in the Load Backup Selection Set list
4. Select the required set in the Load Backup Selection Set list. 5. Click OK. This will apply the saved settings to the current job.
If you modify the selection set any time later, the new settings are applied automatically to all jobs that use the set.
7.4 Modifying a Selection Set
To modify a selection set, perform the following steps:
1. If the corresponding window is not already open, perform step 1 described in the section Creating a Selection Seton page 104.
2. Click the corresponding tab.
3. Click Load under <Set Type> Set at the bottom of the tab. 4. Select the required set in the Load <Set Type> Set list. 5. Click OK. This will load the saved settings.
6. Click Modify under <Set Type> Set at the bottom of the tab. 7. In the NetVault Warning window, click Modify.
8. Update the settings as required.
Figure 7-3:
To overwrite a selection set, save it with the same name
10.To overwrite the loaded set, click OK in the Save <Set Type> Set window. To save the configuration in a different selection set, enter a new name in the box and click OK.
7.5 Copying a Selection Set
To copy the selections to a new set, perform the following steps:
1. If the corresponding window is not already open, perform step 1 described in the section Creating a Selection Seton page 104.
2. Click the corresponding tab.
3. Click Load under <Set Type> Set at the bottom of the tab. 4. Select the required set in the Load <Set Type> Set list. 5. Click OK. This will load the saved settings.
6. Click Modify under <Set Type> Set at the bottom of the tab. 7. In the NetVault Warning window, click Copy.
8. Change the settings, if required.
9. Click Save As under <Set Type> Set at the bottom of the tab.
10.In the Save <Set Type> Set window, enter a new name for the set in the box provided.
7.6 Deleting a Selection Set
To delete a selection set, perform the following steps:
1. If the corresponding window is not already open, perform step 1 described in the section Creating a Selection Seton page 104.
2. Click the corresponding tab.
3. Click Load under <Set Type> Set at the bottom of the tab. 4. Select the required set in the Load <Set Type> Set list. 5. Click OK. This will load the saved settings.
6. Click Modify under <Set Type> Set at the bottom of the tab. 7. In the NetVault Warning window, click Modify.
8. Click Delete under <Set Type> Set at the bottom of the tab. 9. In the confirmation window, click Yes.