Instances - File Archiver - How To
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How To | Related Topics
Create/Modify a Local File System Instance
Create/Modify a Celerra Instance
Create/Modify a Network File Shares Instance
Create/Modify a FPolicy Instance
Add/Change Filer Name
Configure Filer/Proxy Authentication Credentials
Configure Celerra Proxy
Settings
How to Set Up and Run an On Demand
Archive Operation
Browse the Latest Data
Deconfigure an Instance
Change Account for Restoring to Mapped/Shared Network Drives and Restricted Directories
Delete an Instance
Before You Begin
- Review information about
Instances -
File Archiver before beginning this procedure.
- Only one Local File System instance can exist per File Archiver for
Windows Agent.
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Required Actions
To
create/modify a Local File System Instance:
- To create a Local File System instance, from the CommCell Browser, locate the correct client computer node, and right-click the
File Archiver agent node for which you want
the new instance created, click All Tasks, click
Create Instance from the
shortcut menu, and then click Local File System.
To modify an existing instance, from the CommCell Browser, right-click the instance you want to modify, and then click
Properties from the shortcut menu.
- From the General
tab, enter the name (up to 32 characters) for the instance.
When modifying an existing instance, you cannot change the name of the
instance. However, you can change the filer name and credentials.
- Click OK to save the instance.
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After creating a File Archiver instance, a default Archive Set is created for
the instance type. You cannot create additional Archive Sets. Default subclients are not created for
the default Archive Set. You must create a user-defined subclient for
the default archive set.
See
Subclients - File Archiver for Windows for more information.
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Before You Begin
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Required Actions
To create/modify a
Celerra Instance:
- To create a Celerra instance, from the CommCell Browser, locate the correct client computer node, and right-click the
File Archiver agent node for which you want the new instance created, click All Tasks, click
Create Instance from the
shortcut menu, and then click Celerra.
To modify an existing instance, from the CommCell Browser, right-click the instance you want to modify, and then click
Properties from the shortcut menu.
- From the General
tab, enter the name (up to 32 characters) for the instance.
When modifying an existing instance, you cannot change the name of the
instance. However, you can change the file server name and credentials.
- Enter a name for the Celerra file server - see Add/Change
file server Name.
- Enter the credentials for the proxy computer - see Configure
file server/Proxy Authentication Credentials.
- Enter Celera Proxy settings if you wish to change the defaults - see Configure Celerra Proxy
Settings.
- Click OK to save the instance.
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After creating a File Archiver instance, a default Archive Set is created for
the instance type. You cannot create additional Archive Sets. Default subclients are not created for
the default Archive Set. You must create a user-defined subclient for
the default archive set.
See
Subclients - File Archiver for Windows for more information.
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Before You Begin
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Required Actions
To create/modify a
Network File Share Instance:
- To create a Network File Share instance, from the CommCell Browser, locate the correct client computer node, and right-click the
File Archiver agent node for which you want the new instance created, click All Tasks, click
Create Instance from the
shortcut menu, and then click Network File Share.
To modify an existing instance, from the CommCell Browser, right-click the instance you want to modify, and then click
Properties from the shortcut menu.
- From the General
tab, enter the name (up to 32 characters) for the instance.
When modifying an existing instance, you cannot change the name of the
instance. However, you can change the filer name and credentials.
- Enter a name for the NAS filer - see Add/Change Filer Name.
- Enter the credentials for the NAS Filer - see Configure Filer/Proxy Authentication Credentials.
- Click OK to save the instance.
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After creating a File Archiver instance, a default Archive Set is created for
the instance type. You cannot create additional Archive Sets. Default subclients are not created for
the default Archive Set. You must create a user-defined subclient for
the default archive set.
See
Subclients - File Archiver for Windows for more information.
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Before You Begin
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Required Actions
To create/modify a
FPolicy Instance:
- To create a FPolicy instance, from the CommCell Browser, locate the
correct client computer node, and right-click the agent node for which you
want the new instance created, click All Tasks, click
Create Instance from the
shortcut menu, and then click FPolicy.
To modify an existing instance, from the CommCell Browser, right-click the instance you want to modify, and then click
Properties from the shortcut menu.
- From the General
tab, enter the name (up to 32 characters) for the instance.
When modifying an existing instance, you cannot change the name of the
instance. However, you can change the filer name and credentials.
- Enter a name for the NetApp filer - see Add/Change Filer Name.
- Enter the credentials for the NetApp Filer - see Configure Filer/Proxy Authentication Credentials.
- Click OK to save the instance.
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After creating a File Archiver instance, a default Archive Set is created for
the instance type. You cannot create additional Archive Sets. Default subclients are not created for
the default Archive Set. You must create a user-defined subclient for
the default archive set.
See
Subclients - File Archiver for Windows for more information.
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Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Required Actions
The following procedure is applicable only to FPolicy, Celerra, and Network File Share
instance types.
To
change the filer name for FPolicy, Celerra, and Network File Share instance types:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the instance icon, click
Properties.
- Enter a new name for the NetApp, EMC Celerra, or NAS
filer.
- Click OK to save your settings.
Before You Begin
This feature requires a
Feature License
to be available in the CommServe.
Review general license requirements included in
License Administration. For step-by-step
instructions on how to view the license information, see
View All Licenses.
Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To configure
filer/proxy authentication credentials:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the instance icon for the File Archiver Agent for Windows that you want to configure and then click Properties.
- Click Configure Password.
- Enter the User Name for the domain
in which the
network storage file server/proxy resides. Include the domain name with the user
name. For example,
domainA \administrator.
- Enter the Password for the User Name entered above.
After all configuration tasks have been completed, reboot the IIS Server and
for Celerra instances, the proxy computer where the File Archiver for Windows Agent is installed. This
will ensure that the recall service recognizes all the configuration changes
necessary to recall archived data.
Before You Begin
This feature requires a
Feature License
to be available in the CommServe.
Review general license requirements included in
License Administration. For step-by-step
instructions on how to view the license information, see
View All Licenses.
Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To configure
proxy file settings:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the Celerra instance icon for the File Archiver Agent for Windows that you want to configure and then click Properties.
- Optionally, you can change the default settings for the Proxy File
Expiration and Proxy Prune Interval by typing new values in the
corresponding fields.
- Proxy File Expiration - Specify the number of minutes that a
proxy file will remain fully recalled on the agent, before the file is
re-stubbed or deleted.
- Proxy Prune Interval - Specify the frequency in which checks are
performed on the proxy folder to determine whether there are files that have
expired.
- Click OK.
After all configuration tasks have been completed, reboot the IIS Server and
the proxy computer where the File Archiver for Windows Agent is installed. This
will ensure that the recall service recognizes all the configuration changes
necessary to recall archived data.
The following procedure can be used to browse data from the client, agent, instance, or backup set level,
replication set level, depending on the functionality
of a given agent.
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To browse the
latest data:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the level whose data you want to
browse, click All Tasks, and then click the Browse/Browse Backup
Data option from that level.
- From the Browse Options
dialog box,
click OK to execute the browse using the Browse the Latest Data option.
Before You Begin
- Deconfiguration of instances is supported only for File Archiver for
Windows Agent.
- Review
Deconfiguring Instances
for information before you use the procedure below.
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Required Actions
The following procedure is applicable to all instance types: Local File
System, FPolicy, Celerra, and Network File Share.
To
deconfigure an instance:
- In the CommCell Browser, right-click the name of the instance you want to
deconfigure.
- Click All Tasks and select Deconfigure.
If the deconfigure is successful, the instance is dimmed and the license is released if the
Instance that is being deconfigured is
the last instance to use that license. See
License Requirement
for information on licenses used by File Archiver for Windows.
Required Capability: See
Capabilities
and Permitted Actions
To change
a user account for restoring to mapped/shared network drives and restricted directories:
- From the CommCell Browser, expand the tree to view the desired level icon
for the affected agent. Then right-click the icon and click All Tasks
from the short-cut menu.
- Click the appropriate Browse or Restore option. Then populate,
select, and click as appropriate to access the Restore Options (for All Selected
Items) dialog box.
- From the Restore Options (for All Selected Items) dialog box,
click Advanced.
- From the
Advanced Restore
Options dialog box, select Impersonate (Windows, NetWare) User.
Then type the appropriate user name and password.
- Click OK to save the settings.
Before You Begin
- When you delete a specific instance positioned in the level below the
corresponding agent or pseudo-client in the CommCell Console, the following actions occur:
- The corresponding backup data for that instance becomes immediately
unavailable, thus making it inaccessible for restore purposes. In
effect, the backup data is deleted.
- All child levels contained within the level are deleted in the
CommCell Browser.
- All job schedules and job histories that pertain to any of the
levels within the deleted instance are deleted.
- You cannot delete an instance if it is being backed up. Attempts to
delete an instance under such conditions cause the deletion to fail. If
a backup is in progress, either wait for the backup to complete or kill
the backup job using the Job Manager. Once the backup is no longer in
progress, you can delete the instance level.
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Required Actions
To
delete an instance positioned in the level below the corresponding agent
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the instance that you want to
delete, click All Tasks and then click Delete.
- Click Yes to confirm the deletion. (Clicking No
cancels the deletion and retains the node.)
- Type the requested phrase in the Enter Confirmation Text dialog box and
click OK. This should delete the instance.
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With the exceptions noted above, you can no longer access the corresponding
backup data for restore purposes. |
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