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vRanger 7.8.5 - User Guide

Introduction vRanger overview Configuring vRanger
Configuring vRanger through the Startup Wizard Configuring vRanger manually Supplemental instructions: additional repository types
Using vRanger Backup Restore
Restoring an encrypted VMware VM Performing a full restore for VMware VMs Performing a full restore for Hyper-V® VMs Performing a full restore for VMware vApps Performing a full restore of a physical machine Performing an FLR on Windows Performing an FLR on Linux Restoring from manifest
Replicate VMs Reports Integrating and monitoring vRanger Using the vRanger Console vAPI Cmdlet details

Preparing for vRanger sweep-to-tape using NetVault Backup

The vRanger sweep-to-tape process supports two possible installation scenarios. While both options are similar, the instructions in this documentation are designed for the first scenario and can be adapted to fit scenario 2.

Scenario 1: vRanger and NetVault Backup are on the same server:

Windows PowerShell® — PowerShell and vRanger must always be installed on the same server.
NOTE: When installing vRanger and NetVault Backup on the same server, do not install the Quest NetVault Backup Plug-in for VMware®.

Scenario 2: vRanger and NetVault Backup are running on different servers:

NetVault Backup is installed on its own server. All other components reside on the vRanger server.

To prepare your environment for vRanger Sweep-to-Tape using NetVault Backup as described in Scenario 1, complete the following tasks:

Windows PowerShell® contains an execution policy that determines whether scripts are allowed to run, and whether they must be digitally signed before they can run. While the default policy is set to block the execution of such scripts, the following topic details the process for enabling this option.

Complete the steps in the following procedure to enable execution of PowerShell scripts.

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Click Start > All Programs > Quest > vRanger Backup & Replication > vRanger Console.
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To accept the change, type Y and press Enter.
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To facilitate starting the vRanger job, Quest has designed scripts that start the vRanger on-demand job from within NetVault Backup.

For this scenario, you must create a specific vRanger repository to be captured by the NetVault Backup job. This repository should reside in a shared location where both vRanger and NetVault Backup can access the backups. This repository should be used only for vRanger backups that are expected to be swept-to-tape with NetVault Backup.

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Click Start > All Programs > Quest > vRanger Backup & Replication > vRanger Backup & Replication.
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Right-click your preferred target, select Add, and then click the type of storage you want to add.
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Performing backup operations

To sweep backed up data to tape, you need to create both a backup job for vRanger and a backup job for NetVault Backup.

To perform backup operations, complete the following tasks:

You need to create a vRanger backup job that captures a complete backup of the machines you want to sweep to tape.

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In the navigation pane on the left, select My Inventory, and then locate the machine or machines you want to include in the backup.
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Right-click the computer name, and select Backup <machine name> on the context menu.
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On the Virtual Machine Hard Disk Inclusion page, select the disks in the machine to include in the backup job, and then click Next.
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On the repository Selection page, select the target repository created in Creating a sweep-to-tape vRanger repository, and then click Next.
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If the vRanger Transport Selection page appears, select whether to use Automatic transport or to customize the transport method, and then click Next.
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On the Options Selection page, select your preferred backup options, and then click Next.
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On the Retention Policy Selection page, determine how many savepoints to keep, and whether to capture Full, Incremental, or Differential backups; click Next.
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On the Recurrence Schedule Selection page, select This will be an on demand job, and click Next.
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On the Email Notifications Selection page, specify who to notify when the job has finished running by entering one or more names and email addresses to be notified, and click Next.
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On the Summary page, review the Summary window to make sure that your configuration is correct, and then do the following:
Leave the option to Run the job after Finish is clicked cleared.
Click Finish to save the job and close the Backup Wizard.
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To view or access the job, click My Jobs in the left-pane, and then select On Demand jobs under My Jobs.

Complete the steps in the following procedure to create a NetVault Backup job with pre-command scripts. In the following scenario, most of the default settings are used so that the job captures a full backup each time the job runs. For more information on customizing the available NetVault Backup options, see the Quest NetVault Backup Administrator’s Guide.

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In Job Name, specify a name for the job; for example, vRanger_Sweep_to_Tape.
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In the Selections list, click Create New, select the preferred NetVault Backup machine from the list of servers, and then double-click it to see a list of identified source devices for this server.
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In the Plugin Options list, select an existing Backup Options Set, or click Create New, and configure the options that you want to use.
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In the Schedule list, select an existing Schedule Set, or click Create New, and configure the schedule type and schedule method.
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In the Target Storage list, click Create New, and then do the following:
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On the Create Target Set page, click Device Selection.
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Select Specify Device for a list of available devices.
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Click Set to save the settings and close the dialog box.
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On the Create Target Set page, click Media Options, and configure the settings to set specific policies to target specific media, label blank media, or specify whether to reuse media with existing data.
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Next to the Advanced Options list, Create New, and configure the options that you want to use.
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On the Advanced Options page, click Pre & Post Scripts, and select Pre Script, and then enter the following in the entry field:
You can monitor the job progress from the Job Status page and view the logs from the View Logs page.
NOTE: A job that uses the Schedule type of Triggered is only scheduled when you run the script.

Performing restore operations

There are two available ways to restore your data using vRanger.

To perform restore operations, complete one of the following procedures:

Use the following steps to export a previously captured vRanger repository from tape.

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In the Navigation pane, click Create Restore Job.
On the Create Restore Job — Choose Saveset page, the saveset table provides a list of available savesets. The table shows the saveset name (Job Title and Saveset ID), creation date and time, and saveset size.
NOTE: If the backup index of the selected saveset is offline, the Confirm load dialog box is displayed. Click OK to load the index from the backup media, and then in the Load Index dialog box, type or select the number of days you want to store the index in the NetVault Database.
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On the Create Selection Set page, select the archive, for example, vRanger_Sweep_to_Tape, that you want to restore, and click Next.
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On the Create Restore Job page, specify a name for the job.
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In the Target Client list, location to restore the file set from the list of available machines.
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In the Schedule list, use the default, Immediate, to run the job when it is submitted.
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In the Source Options list, select the media from which to restore the archive.
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Click Submit to run the job.
You can monitor the job progress from the Job Status page and view the logs from the View Logs page.

The following steps detail the process of restoring data from a vRanger repository.

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Select the VM containing the data to restore, and then click File Level Restore in the top menu to start the process.
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Click Restore to start the recovery, which extracts the files from the vRanger repository for immediate access.

Using deduplication with Quest NetVault SmartDisk and vRanger

NetVault SmartDisk delivers data de-duplication that significantly reduces storage costs. With powerful, byte-level, variable block de-duplication, and advanced data compression that packs more protected data in the same storage area than competing solutions, you can reduce your disk backup storage footprint by up to 90%.

vRanger versions 5.3 and later support the use of a NetVault SmartDisk server as a repository. Simply by adding a NetVault SmartDisk server to vRanger as a repository, backups written to that repository are automatically de-duplicated.

For more information about integrating vRanger and NetVault SmartDisk, see the Quest vRanger Integration Guide for Quest NetVault SmartDisk.

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