Snap Creator Framework 4.3.1 Administration Guide

Snap Creator® Framework 4.3.1 Administration Guide October 2018 | 215-11922_C0 [email protected] Table of Contents | 3 Contents What Snap Creator Framework does ......................................................... 7 Benefits of using Snap Creator .................................................................................... 7 Snap Creator architecture ........................................................................... 9 Snap Creator Server overview ..................................................................................... 9 Snap Creator Agent overview ................................................................................... 11 Plug-ins for application integration ........................................................................... 12 Managing Snap Creator Server ................................................................ 14 Starting, verifying, and stopping Snap Creator Server on Windows ......................... 14 Starting, verifying, and stopping Snap Creator Server on UNIX .............................. 15 Changing the Snap Creator Server port after installation ......................................... 15 Setting Snap Creator Server credentials .................................................................... 16 Managing Snap Creator Agent ................................................................. 17 Starting, verifying, and stopping Snap Creator Agent on Windows ......................... 17 Starting, verifying, and stopping Snap Creator Agent on UNIX .............................. 17 Changing the Snap Creator Agent port after installation .......................................... 18 Snap Creator Agent security ..................................................................................... 19 Managing Snap Creator Agent security ........................................................ 19 Customizing the default keystore .................................................................. 20 Backup and recovery workflow ................................................................. 21 Creating profiles ........................................................................................................ 22 Creating global configuration files ............................................................................ 22 Creating configuration files ....................................................................................... 23 Creating backups ....................................................................................................... 26 Monitoring jobs ......................................................................................................... 28 Monitoring logs ......................................................................................................... 28 Creating scheduled jobs ............................................................................................ 29 Creating retention policies ........................................................................................ 30 Guidelines to define Snap Creator policies ................................................... 31 Creating backup types ................................................................................... 31 Creating policy schedules .............................................................................. 32 Creating policies ............................................................................................ 32 Assigning policies ......................................................................................... 34 Creating clones .......................................................................................................... 34 Creating clones from a new backup .............................................................. 34 Creating clones from an existing backup ...................................................... 35 Performing restore operations ................................................................................... 36 Performing volume restore ............................................................................ 36 Performing single file restore operations ...................................................... 37 Performing application-defined restore operations ....................................... 38 Managing user access ................................................................................. 40 Creating Snap Creator users ...................................................................................... 42 4 | Snap Creator 4.3.1 Administration Guide Assigning profiles to Snap Creator users .................................................................. 42 Viewing a list of Snap Creator users and assigned profiles by using the CLI ........... 42 Creating Snap Creator roles ...................................................................................... 43 Assigning roles to Snap Creator users ....................................................................... 43 Viewing a list of Snap Creator users and assigned roles ........................................... 43 Viewing Snap Creator users assigned to a role by using the CLI ............................. 43 Creating Snap Creator permissions by using the CLI ............................................... 44 Assigning permissions to Snap Creator roles ............................................................ 44 Creating a list of all Snap Creator permissions by using the CLI ............................. 44 Viewing Snap Creator permissions assigned to a role .............................................. 45 Encrypting Snap Creator user passwords .................................................................. 45 Managing profiles ....................................................................................... 46 Creating profiles ........................................................................................................ 46 Viewing profiles ........................................................................................................ 46 Deleting profiles ........................................................................................................ 46 Managing configuration files ..................................................................... 48 Creating configuration files ....................................................................................... 48 Creating new configuration files by downloading existing configuration files ......... 50 Creating new configuration files by copying existing configuration files ................. 51 Viewing a list of configuration files assigned to a profile ......................................... 51 Deleting configuration files from a profile ................................................................ 51 Managing retention policies ...................................................................... 53 Creating backup types ............................................................................................... 53 Creating policy schedules .......................................................................................... 53 Creating policies ........................................................................................................ 54 Assigning policies ..................................................................................................... 56 Viewing retention policies ......................................................................................... 56 Deleting retention policies ........................................................................................ 56 Managing backups ..................................................................................... 57 What Snap Creator information should be backed up ............................................... 57 Creating backups ....................................................................................................... 57 Viewing a list of backup copies of a configuration file ............................................. 59 Deleting backups ....................................................................................................... 60 Managing scheduled jobs ........................................................................... 61 Creating scheduled jobs ............................................................................................ 61 Running scheduled jobs ............................................................................................ 63 Viewing a list of scheduled jobs ................................................................................ 64 Editing scheduled jobs .............................................................................................. 64 Deleting scheduled jobs ............................................................................................ 64 Managing clones ......................................................................................... 65 Creating clones from a new backup .......................................................................... 65 Creating clones from an existing backup .................................................................. 66 Unmounting clones ................................................................................................... 67 Plug-in information required to configure Snap Creator ....................... 68 Archive log plug-in ..................................................................................................

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