PowerProtect Data Manager 19.14 File System User Guide

Notes

• You can only protect an asset with one policy at a time. Assets can move between protection policies, depending on the protection rule priorities. Protection rules do not automatically move assets that were manually added to a policy to a different policy.
• Before scheduling weekly, monthly, or yearly backups, set the PowerProtect Data Manager time zone to the local time zone. Otherwise, the backup still runs but is triggered based on the PowerProtect Data Manager time zone.
• Time-based exclusion filters require an NTP server to synchronize the time on the PowerProtect Data Manager and File System assets.

Windows, Linux, and AIX

• Ensure that your host is supported. The E-Lab Navigator provides software compatibility information for PowerProtect Data Manager.
• Changing the retention periods for specific backup types requires File System agent 19.9 or later.
• Upon requesting a backup (file-based or block-based), the status of the protection policy becomes Queued. This status switches to Running only after the system begins writing the backup to protection storage.

Initial configuration

• Enable the File System agent asset source.
• Register the application hosts with PowerProtect Data Manager.
• Perform a discovery of the application hosts.
• Where applicable, configure any necessary Service Level Agreements (SLAs). The PowerProtect Data Manager Administrator Guide provides instructions.
• (Optional) Configure the file system parallel backup setting.
• (Optional) Configure asset multi-streaming for file-based backups.

Objectives

• For replication after backup completion, PowerProtect Data Manager 19.12 or later and application agents 19.12 or later are required. It is recommended that you update the application agents to the latest version.
• To move a backup or replica to Cloud Tier, the corresponding objectives must have a retention time of 14 days or more.

Storage

• Add protection storage.

  The PowerProtect Data Manager Administrator Guide provides more information about working with storage units, such as the relationships between storage units and policies, and applicable limitations.

• Before you add a replication objective, add remote protection storage for the replication target.
• Before you add a Cloud Tier objective, PowerProtect Data Manager requires the discovery of protection storage with a configured Cloud unit.

Networking

If applicable, complete all of the virtual network configuration tasks before you assign any virtual networks to the protection policy. The PowerProtect Data Manager Administrator Guide provides more information.