Recovery Manager for AD Forest Edition 10.3.1 - User Guide

Agent tab

The Agent tab is used to specify settings for Backup Agent and Forest Recovery Agent.

The elements of the Agent tab are defined as follows:

• Use the following account to access Backup Agent: - Allows you to explicitly specify a user account under which you want the Recovery Manager Console to access Backup Agent. When this check box is cleared, the Recovery Manager Console uses the account under which it is running to access Backup Agent. To explicitly specify a user account, select this check box, and then click Select Account to specify the account credentials.

• Use preinstalled Backup Agent - Allows you to enable or disable the automatic installation of the Backup Agent. The next table explains how Recovery Manager for Active Directory behaves when this check box is selected or cleared.

When the check box Use preinstalled Backup Agent is selected the product will have the following behavior:

• RMAD backs up only those computers where the Backup Agent is preinstalled manually.

• RMAD does not automatically install the Backup Agent on the computers in the Computer Collection.

• RMAD automatically installs the Backup Agent before backing up a computer where the agent is not preinstalled manually.

• When the backup operation completes, Recovery Manager for Active Directory removes the automatically installed Backup Agent.

• If the Backup Agent was manually preinstalled on the computer to be backed up, RMAD will use that agent to back up data on the computer. RMAD does not remove preinstalled Backup Agent after the backup operation completes

For more information on how to install, update, and uninstall the Backup Agent or discover the Backup Agent instances that were manually preinstalled in your environment, see Managing Backup Agent.

• Automatically configure Windows Firewall - Select this check box to have RMAD automatically configure Windows Firewall on target Windows Server® 2008-based or Windows Server® 2012-based DCs, so that RMAD can back up these DCs.

• Ensure Forest Recovery Agent is deployed - Select this check box if you want the application to verify whether Forest Recovery Agent is installed on each domain controller the Collection includes. The application reinstalls Forest Recovery Agent, if necessary. For more information, see Using Forest Recovery Agent.

Secondary Storage tab

This tab includes the following elements:

• Enable a Secure Storage server - Select this check box to enable a Secure Storage server for a backup. After creation and saving of backup to primary storage locations, a copy of the backup will be saved to the Secure Storage server. Select the drop down box below Enable a Secure Storage server to choose the storage server to copy backup to.

• Enable Cloud Storage and select Cloud Storage locations: - Select this checkbox to enable Cloud Storage. After creation and saving of backup to primary storage locations, a copy of the backup will be made to the configured Cloud storage locations. Select the checkbox for each registered Cloud Storage location to be used for this backup. Computer collections can also be selected in Properties on the Cloud Storage node.

• An account to read data from remote storage location: - Select an account that has read permission to the remote storage location. This account will be used to read the backup from remote storage and copy (upload) to Cloud Storage. If the account is incorrect and does not have the proper permissions, the copy of the backup to Cloud Storage will fail.

Schedule tab

The Schedule tab is used to specify the backup creation scheduling.

On this tab, you can use the following elements:

• Backup creation schedule: - Displays a list of backup creation schedules for the currently selected Computer Collection.

• Schedule enabled - Enables the backup creation schedules listed in the Backup creation schedule box. To disable the schedules, clear this check box. All the task schedules are retained, and you can enable them when needed by selecting this check box.

• Modify - Modifies the Backup creation schedule list. In the dialog box that appears on the screen, specify new triggers or delete existing triggers.

• User account the product will run under when creating backups: - Identifies the user account under which Task Scheduler performs the backup creation task for the currently selected Computer Collection. To change the user account, click Select Account.

• Select Account.. - Click this button to change the user account under which Task Scheduler performs the backup creation task for the currently selected Computer Collection.

See the Best practice for schedule and retention in the Frequently asked questions section for some suggestions on scheduling of backups.

Alerts tab

The Alerts tab is used to specify the alert settings for the given Computer Collection.

On this tab, you can use the following elements:

• E-mail notification - Specifies whether to send information about backup creation sessions by e-mail.

• To: - Provides a space for you to type a recipient's e-mail address. More that one address can be entered, separated by a semicolon or a comma.

• What to record: - Use this list to select what sort of information you want to be included in the notification e-mail message or written to the text file.

• Send notification upon errors or warnings only - Select this check box to not receive notification unless an error and/or warning is written to the log.

• Text file - Specifies whether to log information about backup creation sessions to an additional text file.

• File name: - Provides a space for you to enter the path and name of a text file to be used as an additional log file.

• View - Click this button to view the additional log (text file) using Notepad.

• Browse… - Click this button to locate a text file to be used as the additional log file.

• Append to file if it already exists - Select this check box if you never want to overwrite the log records, and always want to append entries.

• What to record: - Use this list to select what sort of information you want to be included in the notification e-mail message or written to the text file.

• Write to file upon errors or warnings only - Select this check box if you want a record to be added to the text file upon errors and/or warnings only.