- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Preface
- Getting Started
- System Maintenance
- Deploying and maintaining the health of PowerProtect Data Manager
- Deploying and updating PowerProtect Data Manager
- Licensing PowerProtect Data Manager
- Specifying the PowerProtect Data Manager host
- Memory optimization
- Restricted mode
- System support
- Configuring SupportAssist for PowerProtect Data Manager
- Telemetry Collector
- CloudIQ reporting
- Set up the email server
- Add AutoSupport
- Enabling automatic update package checks and downloads
- Add a log bundle
- Audit logging and monitoring system activity
- Monitor system state and system health
- Access the open source software package information
- Security certificates
- Restarting PowerProtect Data Manager
- System maintenance troubleshooting
- Managing Storage
- Using the PowerProtect Search Engine
- Managing Assets
- Managing Protection Policies
- Protection policies
- Before you create a protection policy
- Overview of PowerProtect Data Manager Cloud Tier
- Manual backups of protected assets
- Manual replication of protected assets
- Manual Cloud Tiering of protected assets
- Editing a protection policy
- Viewing a summary of protection policies
- Extended retention
- Edit the retention period for backup copies
- Delete backup copies
- Removing expired backup copies
- Removing assets from PowerProtect Data Manager
- Export protection
- Disable a protection policy
- Delete a protection policy
- Add a service-level agreement
- Export Asset Compliance
- Protecting client assets after a client hostname change
- Ifgroup configuration and PowerProtect Data Manager policies
- Preparing for and Recovering From a Disaster
- About server disaster recovery
- System recovery for server DR
- Server DR protection storage types
- Automatic server DR
- Prepare the DD system recovery target (NFS)
- Manually configure server DR backups
- Record settings for server DR
- Manage PowerProtect Data Manager server DR backups
- Restore PowerProtect Data Manager from server DR backups
- Troubleshooting NFS backup configuration issues
- Troubleshoot recovery of PowerProtect Data Manager
- Recover a failed PowerProtect Data Manager restore
- Quick recovery for server DR
- Overview of PowerProtect Data Manager Cloud Disaster Recovery
- Managing Alerts, Jobs, and Tasks
- Configure Alert Notifications
- View and manage alerts
- View and manage Audit Logs
- Monitoring jobs and tasks
- Restart a job or task manually
- Restart a job or task automatically
- Resume misfire jobs after a PowerProtect Data Manager update
- Cancel a job or task
- Exporting logs
- Limitations for alerts, jobs, and tasks
- Modifying the System Settings
- Configuring and Managing the PowerProtect Agent Service
PowerProtect Data Manager 19.10 Administration and User Guide
Server DR protection storage types
PowerProtect Data Manager supports two types of protection storage for server DR: NFS and DD Boost.
DD Boost is the recommended storage type for PowerProtect Data Manager server DR. NFS is the legacy storage type for PowerProtect Data Manager server DR.
Updating the PowerProtect Data Manager server does not automatically change the storage type. Instead, select the appropriate storage type and manually configure server DR backups. Do not alternate between storage types.
Switching from NFS to DD Boost creates new server DR backups, rather than migrating existing backups. The previous NFS backups are no longer visible in the list of DR backups. However, you can still recover from older NFS server DR backups even after switching to DD Boost, should you experience a disaster before the initial DD Boost system backup completes.
DD Boost
DD Boost provides security and efficiency advantages over NFS, including password-protected authentication. When you use DD Boost, PowerProtect Data Manager creates and manages a storage unit on the DD system and a corresponding user account.
- The storage unit and user account name are based on the PowerProtect Data Manager hostname. For example, SysDR_<hostname>.
- The
DD Boost user password is based on the
PowerProtect Data Manager predefined administrator account (admin) password.
NOTE The password is based on the admin account even if you use other accounts with the Administrator role, such as external identity provider users, to administer PowerProtect Data Manager.
Changes to the PowerProtect Data Manager predefined administrator password prompt corresponding updates to the DD Boost user password. Recovery from server DR backups requires the PowerProtect Data Manager predefined administrator password. If you do not know this password, contact Customer Support.
If you plan to use DD Boost, add the DD system as protection storage before you configure server DR. Protection storage provides instructions.
The DD Boost storage type allows for automatic server DR configuration. Automatic server DR provides more information.
NFS
To store backups over NFS, you must configure and assign a private storage unit for the PowerProtect Data Manager system. Then, prepare the DD recovery target by creating an NFS export. With the DD system address and the NFS export path, you can configure PowerProtect Data Manager to perform server DR backups.
NFS storage is deprecated in favor of DD Boost.
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