The Storage Policy act as a channel for backup and restore operations. It
will map data from its original location to the physical media. Follow the steps
given below to create a storage policy for the laptop backup:
1.
From the CommCell Browser, navigate to and expand Policies.
Right-click Storage Policies, and then click New
Storage Policy.
From the Library list, click the name of a disk
library and click Next.
5.
From the MediaAgent list, click the name of a MediaAgent
that will be used to create the primary copy.
Click Next.
6.
Click Next.
7.
Click Next.
Make Sure that the Enable Client Side Deduplication
check box is selected.
8.
Verify Name and MediaAgent Name that will be used
to store the deduplication store.
Type the name of the folder in which the deduplication database
must be located in the Deduplication Store Location or click
the Browse button to select the folder.
Click Next.
9.
Click Finish.
10.
You can view the storage policy under Storage Policies
node.
The client computer group is a logical grouping of client computers. Client
Computer Group definition help to define options to the entire group instead of
the individual clients. Follow the steps given below to create a client group
for the laptops which you want to backup:
11.
From the CommCell Browser, right-click Client Computer
Groups and then click New Group.
12.
In the Group Name box, specify the name as Laptop
Backup.
Click OK.
You can create an additional group and name
it as Waiting Room. This group may be used as a staging
area to configure
any additional setting for the clients before performing the
first backup. You can configure encryption, content indexing,
client side deduplication etc for the client using command
line scripts.
You can configure several additional settings for laptops before
allowing them to backup for the first time. For example:
Enable Client Level Encryption
Enable Content Indexing
Enable Client Side Deduplication
Follow the steps given below to configure any additional settings:
13.
Use the following steps to download the script needed for this
task:
Click the Download Now button located on the right.
Select a location to save the .zip file.
Navigate to the location of the .zip file and unzip the file.
Modify the script to select the additional settings which you
want to configure.
Schedule a task to run this script after a specific time
interval. You can use Windows Task Scheduler to schedule this task.
When the user installs the Installation Package on a laptop,
the laptop will be added to the Waiting Room client group. This
script will configure the additional settings for the laptops in the
waiting room and then move the laptop from the Waiting Room group
to Laptop Backup group. After the laptop moves to the Laptop
Backup group, the backups will be performed as per the schedule
policy.
The MediaAgent monitors the transfer of data between client computer and
media. Follow the steps given below to create a client group for all the
MediaAgents which will be used for the backup and restore:
14.
From the CommCell Browser, right-click Client Computer
Groups node, and click New Group.
15.
In the Group Name box, specify the name for the MediaAgent
group.
Add the MediaAgents to the group by clicking Include button.
Click OK.
Add the MediaAgents which are not installed
on the same CommServe computer and used for backing up the
clients data.
When multiple clients or tasks require similar operations to be scheduled you
can create a schedule policy as a scheduling template and attach it to the
respective client or task in the CommCell.
Use the following steps to create a schedule policy.
16.
From the CommCell Browser, navigate to and expand Policies.
Right-click Schedule Policies and then click Add.
17.
In the Name box, specify the name of the Schedule Policy.
Click Add button.
18.
In the Schedule Name box, enter a name of the schedule pattern.
Select Automatic and then click OK.
Automatic backup schedule does not
perform synthetic full backups.
Select the required backup content location, e.g.
Documents and click Add.
Click Close.
The contents (e.g. word processing documents, digital
photos, music files and so on) of folders (e.g. Documents,
Music, Videos, etc,.) specified in the above location will
be backed up.
The Administrator must request the users to
copy the files and folders to be backed up to this folder.
For
Windows 7, the folders (Documents, Music, Videos, etc.,) available
under Libraries does not get backed up.
