5nine EASY Backup
Quick User Guide
Installation
Supported Operating Systems:
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Core SP1
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1
Microsoft Windows 8 Server
Microsoft Windows 8 Server Core
Microsoft Hyper-V 8 Server
Prerequisites: .NET Framework 4.0, Microsoft SQL Server.
Before installing the product on Server Core/Hyper-V operating system you must perform following steps:
1) Make sure you have Server 2008 R2 SP1 or later 2) Enable following features on your OS:
DISM.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:ServerCore-WOW64 DISM.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx2-ServerCore DISM.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3-ServerCore
DISM.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx2-ServerCore-WOW64 DISM.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3-ServerCore-WOW64 DISM.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:MicrosoftWindowsPowerShell
DISM.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:MicrosoftWindowsPowerShell-WOW64 3) Install .NET 4.0 for Server Core
You can download it at
ttp://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=22833
4) Use command net share (or Remote Management) to share folder on Server Core machine, and copy there setup.exe, MainSetup.msi and license.txt files
5) Execute setup.exe on Server Core machine and follow instructions described below.
During EASY Backup Server installation you will be asked to supply some information:
- On the screen below you should provide credentials of domain user who has access to Hyper-V machines and to the SQL Server. Under these credentials 5nine.vMonitor service will be executed.
NOTE: Best practice is to not use existing real user account, but to create dedicated user with corresponding rights and assign it to the service.
After setup finishes the 5nine EASY Backup Management service will be automatically started.
Installing Agent on Host/Nodes does not require supplying any additional information.
Management Console
After you run Management Console you will prompted which server you want connect.
To begin working firstly you must add DataCenter object. There is toolbar in the left upper corner.
You must specify the name of DataCenter, and optionally Login and Password of windows (domain) user under which information will be collected from objects. In most cases you can leave these empty – then will be used credentials under which service is running. In case if you have several datacenters belonging to different domains then of course you must specify credentials for each of the datacenters. During EASY Backup application functioning these credentials will flow from root objects to its descendants, however you can always specify for some of the descendants its own credentials.
After DataCenter added, you can select it in the tree view and then other menus will be un-grayed.
You can edit properties of the selected object, remove it, or refresh tree. Also on selecting DataCenter item, there will be un-grayed dropdown menus for adding other types of objects: Cluster and Host.
Click on Add Cluster and fill address in the appeared dialog.
You can then expand tree and navigate through its nodes and VMs.
To perform backup operation just click ‘Backup’ button in toolbar or corresponding menu. Backup Wizard will appear:
After you enter the job name, you must select storage where archives will be stored. If you have no any storage click <Add New> in combo box.
Storages settings will appear where you can click ‘Add’ button to create new storage.
On the next page you should select entities which to backup. You can select as high level objects (such as cluster, host, node or even datacenter) as individual VMs.
The next page you must set when Job should be executed, and if applicable you can set recurrent options on daily, weekly or monthly basis.
Then review all backup settings and click ‘Finish’.
If you chose to run Job immediately the corresponding job appear in list of Jobs for all related entities.
You can track its state by opening log details of the job in context menu.
After job successfully finished the backup instance will appear in ‘Backup’ list for all entities that was backed up during this job.
Clicking on the any node (datacenter, host, node or vm) in the objects tree will display available backup instances and all related jobs ever executed. For example picture below shows all backups and jobs performed for host ‘HV2’. Also on selecting datacenter will be displayed all backups and jobs of all its descendant entities and so on for clusters, hosts/nodes.
Right Click on any item in Jobs list will show following context menu.
For failed jobs you can execute ‘Retry’ action. For active running jobs you can break the operation by clicking ‘Stop’.
Double clicking on any item in Job list will display log details of the job.
Double clicking on any item in Backups list will display Restore Wizard. You can change default job name on yours. And select on which host/node you wish to restore.
Next page you must specify which VMs contained in the backup you want restore.
Then review selected settings before to submit job.
