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Complete the File Servers Guided Setup for Azure NetApp Files Exported to NFS

The file server guided setup guides you through creating a backup plan and adding the file server for Azure NetApp Files for NFS.

Before You Begin

You must have the following information about the access node:

  • The access node name

  • The host name

  • The credentials that you use to access the access node

Go to the File Server Guided Setup

  1. From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Service catalog.

    The Welcome page appears.

  2. On the Protect tab, click the Files tile.

    The File server setup page appears.

    If you already completed the guided setup, the Files page appears.

Create a Backup Plan

If you already have a backup plan that you can use, you can skip this step.

  • On the Create server backup plan page, click Create a new plan, and then specify the settings for a backup plan that you can use for the file server.

1. To add the content to back up, in the Content area, click Add > Browse or Custom path.

- To enter paths to items you want to include in backups, in the Enter custom path field, enter a path, and then click the add Managing File System Subclients (1) button.

- To select items from a file system view of the server, do the following:

1. Click Browse.

The Browse Options dialog box appears.

2. From the Access nodes list, select the access node, and then click Browse.

The Add content dialog box appears.

4. Select the check boxes for the items that you want to include in the backup and then click Save.

2. To add filters to exclude items from backups, in the Exclusions area, click Add > Browse or Custom path.

- To enter paths to items you want to exclude from backups, in the Enter custom path field, enter a filter pattern, and then click the add Managing File System Subclients (2) button.

- To select items from a file system view of the server, do the following:

1. Click Browse.

The Browse Options dialog box appears.

2. In the Interface path box, provide the path details to browse the data to exclude.

3. From the Access nodes list, select the access node, and then click Browse.

The Add exclusions dialog box appears.

4. Select the check boxes for the items that you want to exclude in the backup and then click Save.

3. You can add the exceptions on the excluded data. To do so, move the Define exceptions toggle key to the right, and then click Add > Browse or Custom path.

- To enter paths to items you want to exempt from the excluded data, in the Enter custom path field, enter a filter pattern, and then click the add Managing File System Subclients (2) button.

- To select items from a file system view of the server, do the following:

1. Click Browse.

The Browse Options dialog box appears.

3. From the Access nodes list, select the access node, and then click Browse.

The Add exceptions dialog box appears.

4. Select the check boxes for the items that you want to except from the excluded data and then click Save.

4. From the Include global exclusions list, select one the following:

- Off: To disable global filters for this subclient; only subclient exclusions are applied. This value overrides the Use Global Filters on All Subclients global filters setting.

- On: To enable global filters for this subclient; both global and subclient exclusions are applied. This value overrides the Use Global Filters on All Subclients global filters setting.

- Use cell level policy: To include global filters for this subclient only if the Use Global Filters on All Subclients option is selected in the Global Filters.

Steps

Plan name

  1. Fill in the following backup plan information:

    1. Choose whether to create a new backup plan or use a base plan.

    2. If you selected Create a new plan, in the Plan name, enter a name for the backup plan.

    3. If you selected Use existing base plan, specify the backup plan name and select a base plan.

Backup destinations

  1. Click Add copy.

    The Add copy dialog box appears.

  2. In Name, enter a name for the backup destination.

  3. From the Storage list, select the storage to use for the backups.

    You can use the Air Gap Protect cool storage class for creating secondary copies, but not for creating primary copies.

  4. To specify the start time for backups on a specific date and later, move the Backups On and After toggle key to the right.

  5. For Retention rules, enter the amount of time to retain the backups.

  6. To specify additional backups, such as weekly full backups, move the Extended retention rules toggle key to the right, and then add rules.

  7. Click Save.

  8. To add additional regions to the backup destination, move the Multi-region toggle key to the right, and then select the regions.

    You can also add more regions and associate the storage copy to the region.

RPO

  1. For Backup frequency, click Add.

    The Add backup frequency dialog box appears.

    1. From the Backup type list, select the backup type, and from the for list, select All agents or Databases.

    2. Specify the frequency of the backup.

    3. To specify the client time zone, full backup database frequency, or to add exceptions, move the Advanced toggle key to the right, and do the following:

      • From the time zone list, select the time zone according to which the backups must run.

      • If you select incremental or differential backup type for all agents or databases, to modify the full backup frequency of the database, specify a value for Run full backup on databases every option.

      • To add exceptions when the backups must not run, click Exceptions, and then add exceptions for any day of a month or week or schedule an exception for any week of the month.

        Exceptions repeat every week or month according to the selected exception.

  2. To modify the transaction log frequency, or enable disk cache for log backups, in the Run transaction log for databases field, click Edit edit button outline grey/gray pencil.

    • For Transaction log, specify how often to run log backups.

    • To automatically back up the database logs to the MediaAgent cache, move the Advance toggle button to the right and do the following:

      1. Move the Serverless log backups toggle key to the right.

      2. For Commit every, enter how often to commit the logs to the CommServe computer.

      Disk caching of database logs applies to the following databases: Informix, Microsoft SQL Server on Windows, Oracle, Oracle RAC, and SAP HANA

      Note

      The database schedules are available only if the backup plan is applicable to database solution and only one transaction log schedule can be added to that specific backup plan.

  3. For Backup window (if incremental and differential backups are supported for the workload), specify when you want incremental and differential backups to run.

  4. For Full backup window, specify when you want full backups to run.

Folders to back up

  1. To back up only some content, in Content to back up, enter the content to back up.

    By default, all content is backed up.

  2. To exclude folders or files from the backup, in Exclude - files/folders/patterns, enter the content to exclude.

  3. Specify whether to include the system state in backups:

    • To include the system state in all backups, move the Back up system state toggle key to the right.

    • To include the system state only in full backups, select the Back up system state check box and the Only with full backup check box.

    • To use Windows Server's VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) to back up the system state, select the Use VSS for system state check box.

Snapshot options

  1. Under Snapshot options, do the following:

    1. Specify how to retain snapshots:

      • To specify a number of jobs to retain on a snapshot copy, select Number of snap recovery points, and then enter the number of jobs to retain.

      • To specify a retention period, select Retention period, and then enter the amount of time to retain the jobs.

    2. If you don't want to create backup copies, move the Enable backup copy toggle key to the left to turn it off.

    3. For Backup copy frequency, enter how often to run backup copy jobs.

Database options

  1. Under Database options, do the following:

    1. For Log backup RPO, enter how often to run log backups.

    2. To automatically back up the database logs to the MediaAgent cache, do the following:

      1. Move the Serverless log backups toggle key to the right.

      2. For Commit, enter how often to commit the logs to the CommServe computer.

        Disk caching of database logs applies to the following: Informix, Microsoft SQL Server on Windows, Oracle, Oracle RAC, and SAP HANA.

Override restrictions
  • Leave the Allow plan to be overridden check box cleared.

Add the File Server

If you do not have an access node configured already, you can create a file server which will be used as access node for the Azure NetApp Files client. When you add a file server, a backup set, and a default subclient are automatically created.

  1. On the Files tab, click Add server.

  2. In the Name box, enter a name for the file server.

  3. In the Host name box, enter a fully qualified hostname or IP address for the access node.

    You can enter more than one host name.

  4. In the User name and Password boxes, enter the credentials for an administrator account that has access to the access node.

    The administrator must have the permissions for performing backups and restores.

  5. For OS Type, select Linux.

  6. To restart the access node, move the Reboot if required toggle key to the right.

  7. In the Backup configuration section, from the Plan Optional list, select the backup plan to use for the access node, and then specify which content you want to back up.

  8. Click Save.

  9. To finish, choose one of the following options:

    • To perform an immediate backup of the client computer (without requiring confirmation), click Back up Now.

    • The Job details page appears and displays job status information.

    • To go to the File Server Dashboard page without performing a backup, click Do it later.

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