Backing Up and Recovering Arcserve D2D Data › Submit Backup Jobs of Arcserve D2D Nodes Through Proxy Servers

Submit Backup Jobs of Arcserve D2D Nodes Through Proxy Servers

Arcserve Backup lets you back up Arcserve D2D sessions to Arcserve Backup media through a proxy server. When Arcserve Host-Based VM Backup is installed on the proxy server, you can submit the backup job through the Host-Based VM Backup proxy server. The Arcserve Backup media can be file systems devices, tape media, NAS devices, and devices that reside on a SAN.

When you backup D2D servers through a proxy server, Arcserve Backup retrieves all of the D2D backup sessions for all of the D2D servers that are protected by the proxy server. When Arcserve Host-Based VM Backup is installed on the proxy server, Arcserve Backup retrieves all of the D2D backup sessions for all of the D2D virtual machines that are protected by the proxy server.

This backup method lets Arcserve Backup synthesize full backup sessions from the full and incremental Arcserve D2D backup sessions. The synthesized backup sessions can be used to recover D2D data at file level, folder level, and application level granularity, and to perform full system recoveries of the D2D servers, such as bare metal recovery.

The process of backing up Arcserve D2D through a proxy server is almost identical to the steps that are required to back up files, folders, nodes, servers, and so on.

When backing up Arcserve D2D nodes on a D2D server that failed through a proxy server; the D2D server is still supported and backed up as long as there was at least one backup running when the D2D server failed. The details from the D2D destination are cached and used for subsequent backups when the D2D server fails.

Follow these steps:

1. From the Backup Manager, click the Start tab and specify the type of backup job that you want to submit.
2. Click the Source tab to display the Arcserve D2D nodes and proxy servers.

   Specify the proxy servers containing the nodes that you want to back up as illustrated by the following screen:

   

3. Click the Destination tab to specify the location where you want to store the backup data.

   Note: To back up the Arcserve D2D sessions using multistreaming, on the Destination tab, click the Multistreaming option and then specify the maximum number of streams that you want to allow for the job.

4. Click the Schedule tab to specify when and the frequency that you want the job to run.
5. Click the Options toolbar button to specify the backup options that are required for the job. For more information, see Global Backup Options.
6. Click the Submit on the toolbar to submit the job.

   The Security and Agent Information dialog opens.

7. On the Security and Agent Information dialog, edit or confirm the security and agent information for your job, and click OK.
8. When the Submit Job dialog opens, select Run Now to run the job immediately, or select Run On and select a date and time when you want the job to run.

   Note: For more information about the Run Now option, see Job Queue Tab.

9. Enter a Job Name for your job.
10. If you selected multiple sources to back up and want to set the priority in which the job sessions initiate, click Source Priority. Use the Top, Up, Down, and Bottom buttons to change the order in which the jobs are processed. When you finish setting priorities, click OK.
11. To save the job as a Arcserve Backup job script, click the Save Job button.
12. To save the job template, click the Save Template button.
13. To preflight check the job, click the Preflight Check button. If the preflight check failed, click the Cancel button to modify the job settings.
14. On the Submit Job dialog, click OK.

    The job is submitted.