Snap Creator® Framework 4.3.3 Administration Guide February 2021 | 215-14105_C0 [email protected] Snap Creator 4.3.3 Administration Guide ii Contents Contents What Snap Creator Framework does............................................................................ 6 Benefits of using Snap Creator....................................................................................................................................... 6 Snap Creator architecture...............................................................................................8 Snap Creator Server overview........................................................................................................................................ 8 Snap Creator Agent overview.......................................................................................................................................10 Plug-ins for application integration.............................................................................................................................. 11 Managing Snap Creator Server....................................................................................13 Starting, verifying, and stopping Snap Creator Server on Windows............................................................................ 13 Starting, verifying, and stopping Snap Creator Server on UNIX................................................................................. 13 Changing the Snap Creator Server port after installation.............................................................................................14 Setting Snap Creator Server credentials....................................................................................................................... 15 Managing Snap Creator Agent.....................................................................................16 Starting, verifying, and stopping Snap Creator Agent on Windows.............................................................................16 Starting, verifying, and stopping Snap Creator Agent on UNIX..................................................................................16 Changing the Snap Creator Agent port after installation..............................................................................................17 Snap Creator Agent security.........................................................................................................................................17 Managing Snap Creator Agent security............................................................................................................17 Customizing the default keystore..................................................................................................................... 18 Backup and recovery workflow.................................................................................... 20 Creating profiles........................................................................................................................................................... 21 Creating global configuration files............................................................................................................................... 21 Creating configuration files.......................................................................................................................................... 22 Creating backups.......................................................................................................................................................... 24 Monitoring jobs............................................................................................................................................................ 26 Monitoring logs............................................................................................................................................................ 27 Creating scheduled jobs................................................................................................................................................27 Creating retention policies............................................................................................................................................29 Guidelines to define Snap Creator policies.......................................................................................................29 Creating backup types.......................................................................................................................................30 Creating policy schedules................................................................................................................................. 30 Creating policies............................................................................................................................................... 31 Assigning policies.............................................................................................................................................32 Creating clones............................................................................................................................................................. 33 Creating clones from a new backup..................................................................................................................33 Creating clones from an existing backup..........................................................................................................34 Performing restore operations.......................................................................................................................................34 Performing volume restore............................................................................................................................... 34 Performing single file restore operations..........................................................................................................35 Performing application-defined restore operations...........................................................................................36 Snap Creator 4.3.3 Administration Guide iii Contents Managing user access.................................................................................................... 38 Creating Snap Creator users......................................................................................................................................... 39 Assigning profiles to Snap Creator users......................................................................................................................40 Viewing a list of Snap Creator users and assigned profiles by using the CLI..............................................................40 Creating Snap Creator roles..........................................................................................................................................40 Assigning roles to Snap Creator users..........................................................................................................................40 Viewing a list of Snap Creator users and assigned roles.............................................................................................. 41 Viewing Snap Creator users assigned to a role by using the CLI.................................................................................41 Creating Snap Creator permissions by using the CLI.................................................................................................. 41 Assigning permissions to Snap Creator roles............................................................................................................... 41 Creating a list of all Snap Creator permissions by using the CLI................................................................................ 42 Viewing Snap Creator permissions assigned to a role..................................................................................................42 Managing profiles.......................................................................................................... 43 Creating profiles........................................................................................................................................................... 43 Viewing profiles............................................................................................................................................................43 Deleting profiles........................................................................................................................................................... 43 Managing configuration files........................................................................................ 44 Creating configuration files.......................................................................................................................................... 44 Creating new configuration files by downloading existing configuration files............................................................46 Creating new configuration files by copying existing configuration files....................................................................46 Viewing a list of configuration files assigned to a profile............................................................................................ 47 Deleting configuration files from a profile..................................................................................................................