Advanced Administration

• Add users (Administration Users (Figure 12.4))

  Figure 12.4: Backup - Arkeia - Add Users

  

  Arkeia sends email messages reporting several occurrences, like the need to insert tapes, the details of a backup process, etc. You should create a user that handles these messages (with an Administrator type role) to check if the procedures are correctly done.

  1. Insert:
     1. Name;
     2. Role;
     3. Email address.

• SavePacks (Backup » SavePacks)

  This is an essential feature of Arkeia technology. A savepack is a set o paths and files that are included in the backup.

  1. Create a SavePack (usually named Data);
  2. Add directories that will be included in the backup (name of SavePack » Browse Trees) (Figure 12.5).
  • /boot
  • /etc
  • /homeX (were $1\leq X\leq number of homes$)
  • /opt/ipbox/backupDB
  • /var/lib/ldap
  • /var/lib/postgres
  • /var/lib/postgres2
  • /var/lib/samba
  • sysinfo

  Figure 12.5: Backup - Arkeia - Directories to save

  

• Configure the backups (Backup » Periodic) (Figure 12.6)

  Figure 12.6: Backup - Arkeia - Levels

  
  1. Create a new Periodic Backup
  2. Create 3 levels:
     1. Level 1 - Archive
     2. Level 2 - Weekly
     3. Level 3 - Daily
• For each backup select:

  	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3
  SavePack
  DrivePack
  Pool	Archive	Weekly	Daily
  Type	Total Backup	Total Backup	Incremental
  Valid for	2 years	8 weeks	4 weeks

  The available backup types are:

  • Archive: Saves savepack data and keeps it indefinitely (requires additional license);
  • Total: Saves all the savepack data and keeps them during the period set in Valid For;
  • Differencial: Only saves the files that were modified since the last Total type backup;
  • Incremental: This is the most complex backup type. It creates a list with the modified files since last backup (both Total and Incremental) and proceeds to do the backup of the files included in the list.