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Seed your AccuGuard™
private Backup Cloud with RDX® QuikStor™
Tandberg Data Solution Guide V 0.91
16th June 2014
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AccuGuard Enterprise for RDX
AccuGuard Enterprise for RDX is an easy to use backup software for small and medium businesses
with multiple servers, clients or remote workplaces. AccuGuard Enterprise is single instance software
which only resides on one server. There are no agents to be installed on any additional servers or
workstations. So, AccuGuard Enterprise fits perfect into a backup cloud strategy as new clients can be
integrated immediately
Source based deduplication
AccuGuard performs a source based deduplication. With this, AccuGuard deduplicates and
compresses the backup set directly at the client side to reduce backup time, backup amount and
network traffic. This is done by a small piece of software which is automatically sent to the client
from the AccuGuard server. With deduplication, reduction ratios up to 20:1 could be achieved.
Initial Backup and backup cloud seeding
An initial backup does not totally benefit from deduplication and compression. The initial backup is a
full backup and the deduplication ratio might be slight, due to a lot of different files to backup for the
first time. So, done for a remote computer, this could utilize a lot of network resources and might
take a lot of time.
A better idea is to perform the first backup directly at the remote location with an USB attached RDX
QuikStor. The remote user has nothing to do except connecting the RDX drive, inserting a RDX media
and share the drive. All backup operations are done at the data center within the AccuGuard
Enterprise user-interface. After backup is finished, the remote user ships the RDX media to the data
center. There, the backup is imported to the server object store, where future backups of this remote
client are stored. As deduplication and compression is still done at the remote site, further backups
will be dramatically reduced in size.
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How to setup
The following instructions demonstrate how to setup all steps for initial backup and data seeding.
Preparing the remote system
Connect the RDX drive to the
remote computer. It will be
shown up as an additional
drive letter. (Here, an
appropriate label was issued)
We need to share the RDX
drive within the network to
perform a backup remotely.
Therefore right click on the
RDX drive and select
properties. Then choose
“Advanced Sharing”.
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Choose a share name and
click on “Permissions”.
Allow “Full Control” for the
administrator. (You should
create a backup administrator
account on the server and all
clients.)
Now, the RDX drive is shared.
(Indicated by the small icon
on the left lower side)
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Preparing AccuGuard Enterprise for the remote backup job
First we have to add the
remote computer. Be sure,
that the computer resides
inside the same domain or
workgroup. Select “Remote
Computers” and click on “Add
Computer…”.
Select a method to add the
new computer. Here we
chose “Type the Computer
Name”.
Add the computer by
entering either the computer
name or IP-address.
The remote computer is now
integrated into AccuGuard
Enterprise.
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The next step is to introduce
the remote computer’s RDX
to AccuGuard as a store. We
will handle this RDX like a
network drive. Start the “Add
Store Wizzard” and choose
“Network Drive”. Click “Add a
network location”.
Type in the remote
computer’s name and the
share name we have chosen
before to specify the network
location.
Choose a name for this
network location. The share
name is automatically
predefined but can be
overwritten.
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Now the RDX of the remote
computer is introduced to
AccuGuard and we can now
create a store. Select the
drive and click “Next”.
Choose a name for this store
and click “OK”.
Click on “Prepare Now”, the
store will be created by
adding a specific directory
structure on the RDX media
of the remote computer. It
will appear in the “All Stores”
overview.
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Create a protection plan for the remote computer
Now, as everything is set up, we can create the initial backup for the remote computer targeted to
the local attached RDX QuikStor.
Select the remote computer
and click “Create Protection
Plan” in the right panel.
Select the type of data you
want to protect. Here we
selected “Files and Folders”
and selected the directory
“C:\Test Files\”. Click next to
define the backup target.
Choose the store “RDX Drive
on remote client” we created
above to backup directly to
the RDX connected to the
remote computer.
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Enter a plan name and a
description and click next.
Enter a schedule for this plan.
Here we chose “No Schedule”
to run this plan manually.
The plan is now created. As
soon as the remote system is
ready, click “Run” at the right
panel. The backup job starts
at the remote site. During this
time, the remote system
should not shut down.
When the job is finished, the remote user has to be informed, that the RDX media can be ejected
from the drive and can be shipped to the central backup location.
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Import the remote media into the central backup location
As a next step, we need to import the backup set to the central backup server. So, the next backups
will perform deduplication tasks based on this initial backup. The deduplication is done at the remote
computer. So only blocks which have been changed or which have been added since the last backup
are sent over the network. In addition, also compression is performed on the remote site. This
reduces the amount of data once more.
The central backup server,
where AccuGuard Enterprise
for RDX resides, should have
connected a RDX QuikStor
drive or a RDX QuikStation. As
soon as the remote media
arrives, insert it into a RDX
drive. It will show up in the
devices and drives area with
the label we gave on the
remote site.
The store is still visible in
AccuGuard. Now we plan to
use a local disk for all further
backups of the remote
computer. We need to copy
the backup set from RDX to
local disk. Therefore, select
this store and click on “Create
Store Task” at the right panel.
Choose “Create Store Copy
Task”.
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Choose the RDX store as a
source and the local disk
store (here Local ObjectStore)
as the destination. Click
“Next”.
If the stores do not appear in
the right field, you can
change from destination to
source and vice versa by
selecting the store and
clicking the arrows.
Select the backup set to copy.
Click “Next”. Choose “Only
copy the most recent
recovery point”, as we just
did one backup to the RDX
media. Click “Next”.
Specify a name for the copy
job. Click “Next”. Select “No
Schedule” at the “Edit
Schedule” screen and click
“Next”. Click “Finish” to
create the store copy task.
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The store copy task is now
displayed in the middle panel
when the RDX store is
selected in the left panel.
Select the task and click
“Run” on the right panel to
start the task. The “OK”
status indicated the success
of the copy task.
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Change the backup plan settings
As all future backups should be targeted to the local disk of the AccuGuard Server, the last step will
be the change of the backup destination of the backup plan we already used for our base line
backup.
Select the remote computer
from the “Remote
Computers” section of the
left panel, select the backup
plan in the middle panel and
click “Plan Settings” on the
right panel.
Select the “Settings” tab and
click “Change”.
Select the appropriate store
for future backups and click
“OK”.
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The backup destination has
now changed from “RDX
Drive on remote client” to
“Local ObjectStore”. Click
“OK” to finish the change.
Run the plan to check all
settings.
In our example, there haven’t
been any changes made
between the initial backup at
the remote site and the
import and the second
backup at the local site. So
during this backup run, 0
bytes have been stored.
Finally, the schedule of this backup plan should be changed from “No Schedule” to an appropriate
schedule by selecting “Edit Schedule” from the right panel.