Arkeia

IPBrick includes Arkeia, a full featured backup service. It allows accessing the Arkeia configuration interface, software for backup management installed in IPBrick by default.

When selecting this option, and after clicking the Open button, a session window by VNC is open. It is necessary to have the JRE^3.5 installed to execute the connection. The authentication in this session is made with the IPBrick Administrator's actual password. The Arkeia management interface is available after validation.

In order to start the Arkeia configuration software it is necessary to submit your validation by default:

login: root
password: (without password)

After the successful server connection the following menus are displayed (Figure 3.44):

• Backup: Sets, configures and launches Arkeia backup, including savepacks
• Restoration: Sets, configures and launches Arkeia restore function;
• Hardware: Sets and configures the hardware (drives, tapes, libraries) connected to the server;
• Running jobs: Displays the executing processes;
• Administration: Functions to configure Arkeia
• Logs: Displays the logs that are generated by Arkeia.

Figure 3.44: Arkeia - Main Menu

Arkeia menus are easy to use. When you access a menu, new sub-menus show up with new options, successively. Every time you pick a menu, its icon appears in a upper bar. To move back in these menus you only have to click in the corresponding icon.

To administrate Arkeia executing processes you have to select the Running Jobs menu (Figure 3.45).

Figure 3.45: Arkeia - Running Jobs

select the request line that will have more priority to backup execution

Figure 3.46: Arkeia - Backups confirmation

Inside this menu, you can see the backup processes. These processes can have two status:

• The process is pending waiting for confirmation, i.e., you have to click OK. The user is alerted to replace the tape;
• The jobs are waiting for the conclusion of the remaining processes.

Usually, if backup administration is normally processed, with the administrator intervention in a daily basis, there will be only an execution process per day.

In the power failure case, all this processes are eliminated.

Footnotes

... JRE^3.5

Java Runtime Environment, which can be found at http://sun.java.com/.