GWAVA Reload 4 GroupWise Disaster Recovery, Hot Backup and Quick Restore Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 11 Minimum System Requirements ................................................................................................................ 12 Calculating Disk Space ............................................................................................................................. 13 Installation .................................................................................................................................................. 14 Licensing .................................................................................................................................................. 15 Logs ......................................................................................................................................................... 20 Administration ............................................................................................................................................ 23 Reload CONSOLE Administration ................................................................................................................ 24 Issues With VNC Client Sessions ......................................................................................................... 25 Understanding Reload Post Office Profile Backups .................................................................................... 28 Access Mode – All Post Office Platforms ................................................................................................ 29 Restore Mode – NetWare or Windows Post Offices (Not Linux Post Offices) ........................................ 30 Standard (Incremental) Backups ............................................................................................................. 31 Portable (Full) Backups ........................................................................................................................... 31 Expire-Portable Full Backups .................................................................................................................. 33 Tape Archive Backups ............................................................................................................................. 34 Determining Disk Space Needed for Backups ......................................................................................... 34 Integrating Third-Party Backup Solutions with Reload ........................................................................... 35 Backup Schedule Times ........................................................................................................................... 35 Creating a Reload Post Office or Domain Profile ........................................................................................ 36 Share Creation ........................................................................................................................................ 37 Linux .................................................................................................................................................... 37 Windows ............................................................................................................................................. 38 Profile Creation ....................................................................................................................................... 39 Creating a Remote Reload Profile for a Reload Post Office or Domain Profile on a Different Reload Server. ................................................................................................................................................. 41 Basic Reload Post Office Profile Configuration ........................................................................................... 43 Overview ................................................................................................................................................. 43 Access-Backups ....................................................................................................................................... 43 2 Copyright 2012 © GWAVA inc. Disaster-Recovery ................................................................................................................................... 44 Logs ......................................................................................................................................................... 44 Standard .................................................................................................................................................. 44 Schedule .............................................................................................................................................. 44 BLOBS Threads .................................................................................................................................... 44 BLOBS – DBCOPY Threads vs. BLOBS Sync Threads ............................................................................ 45 Database Threads ............................................................................................................................... 45 SmartPurge Configuration .................................................................................................................. 45 DMS - Backing up Document Management Libraries ......................................................................... 46 Customize ............................................................................................................................................ 46 Advanced............................................................................................................................................. 47 Configuring Portable Backups ................................................................................................................. 48 Schedules ............................................................................................................................................ 48 Retention ............................................................................................................................................ 48 Expire Action - Delete or Archive ........................................................................................................ 49 Configuring Archive Settings ............................................................................................................... 49 Specify Archive Path ............................................................................................................................ 49 Configuring Advanced Archive Settings .............................................................................................. 50 Customize ............................................................................................................................................ 50 Advanced Portable Backup Settings ................................................................................................... 51 Configuring Tape Backups ....................................................................................................................... 52 Schedule .............................................................................................................................................. 52 Customize ............................................................................................................................................ 53 Create Tape Archive (TAR) Files .......................................................................................................... 53 Expire Old Tape Archive (TAR) Files .................................................................................................... 54 Specify Tape Archive (TAR) File Path .................................................................................................. 54 Configuring Advanced Tape Settings .................................................................................................. 54 Configuring the Reload Agent to “push” a *.tar file to another server .............................................. 55 Configure Reload to push the *.tar file to a Windows server that is running Veritas. ....................... 55 Build TAR Before Moving to TAR Path ................................................................................................ 55 Final Notes on Configuring Reload Backup Jobs ..................................................................................... 56 Profile Preferences .................................................................................................................................. 56 3 Copyright 2012 © GWAVA inc. Error and Warning thresholds............................................................................................................. 57 Access Backup Preferences ..................................................................................................................... 57 Access Mode - through the Access Mode POA ................................................................................... 58 Restore Mode – through the Restore Mode POA ............................................................................... 58 Auto-Reload; Restore Area Access – Linux