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Functional principle
The Novell corporate brand has been acquired by Micro Focus. The Novell Filr product name is now Micro Focus Filr; however, SEP sesam documentation update (such as names and screenshots) to reflect these changes is being done in a phased manner, therefore Micro Focus Filr may still appear under the name Novell Filr.
- Backup of the whole appliance with SEP sesam snapshot technology, the MySQL DB and the single files over a caching server.
Supported Filr types:
- Novell Filr appliance 1.01 for VMWare
- Novell Filr appliance 1.01 for HYPER-V
Hint |
Backup of Novell Filr Appliances for openXEN and KVM can be done with the Linux Agent for SLES11 inside the VM only. No Hypervisor snapshot is possible. After a Filr Update the SEP sesam client must be re-installed because the root area will be "renewed" during an update |
Restore:
- Complete and fast Filr appliance restore (including appliance disk and data disk of the VM)
- Single Database recovery for all installed MySQL Databases
- Single file recovery of the system partition
- Single file restore of files from the Personal Storage to a personal storage or to a different location
- Single file restore of files from Net Folders to same destination or to a different location
Restrictions / known issues
- Comments and user permissions to a file are not included in the single file restore. But they can be read manually in a 2nd instance via a restore of VM.
System requirements
- SEP sesam backup server installed on Windows or Linux, see SEP Sesam Quick Install Guide
- Windows System (Win7/W2008/W2012) for "Personal Storage Backup". Can also be the SEP sesam Server or SEP sesam RDS in case this is already a Windows system.
Prerequisites
- A complete installed SEP sesam Server, see SEP Sesam Quick Install Guide
- The ssh service must be turned on at the Filr appliance during the installation
- Firewall ports will be modified with yast
- Activate the sharing function for "Personal Storage" for each user in Filr
Installation
- Connect to the Filr administration console and turn on the ssh service. After a successful installation and configuration the ssh service can be turned off
- Download the current SEP sesam backup client for the appropriate server platform (SLES11 x64) from http://download.sep.de/linux/SuSE/
- Copy it to the Filr Appliance using a program like WinSCP, for example
- Install the SEP sesam client --> rpm -Uvh sesam_....rpm
- Allow the connection from the SEP sesam Server to the Filr Appliance (In this example the hostname (resolvable) of the backupserver is augenblix.)
- Command is /opt/sesam/bin/sesam/sm_setup set_client the_hostname_of_the _sesam_backupserver
- Adjust the firewall of the Filr appliance
- connect to the Filr command line and type in yast --> Security and Users -> Firewall --> Custom Rules -> "select with the Tab key the right Zone 'Internal, external, ....' -> Add -> Enter the IP Address of the backup server -> Add
- You can test this step later, when the File appliance is added as a backup client in the SEP sesam GUI
- In case the firewall is configured, please check the name resolution between the SEP sesam Server and the Filr Appliance How to check DNS configuration or How can I verify that the SEP sesam server has full access to a specific client?
- For a more individual firewall adjustment please read the actual firewall description Which are SEP sesam default TCPIP ports?
- You can test this step later, when the File appliance is added as a backup client in the SEP sesam GUI
- For the MySQL Backup you must configure the /etc/my.cnf at the Filr appliance. See SEP sesam Extension for MySQL.
Configuration of the Filr Appliance in SEP sesam
- In the SEP sesam GUI Components -> Topologie -> Add a new client with the Hostname of the Filr appliance (only host names are possible) -> Platform Unix -> OS Linux
- In case you have a 'special' firewall configuration, change into the tab "Options" and set the correct port range.
Configure backup tasks for the Filr environment
- SEP sesam GUI Tasks -> by Clients -> right click at the Filr appliance "New backup Task"
- Add a Task for the whole file system.
- Add Tasks for all available mySQL databases. One single task for each DB.
- Add backup tasks for the Filr Appliance VM(s)
- Example for VMWare
Configure backup of the Personal Storage
- Open the Filr website and login as admin
- Open the "Administration Console" and add a new User with the name "backup" or something similar
- Each User must now share all personal storage folders with this 'new user' "backup". This process has to be performed by each user manually.
- In this example the user, Christian Ruoff, has shared all his folders with the User "backup account"
Important improvement |
For example, if you have 5 Users and they all create the folder "Photos" and each shares this folder with the user "backup" you will have 5 folders with the name "Photos" now visible at the caching-server. Every User should create his folder with more specific names, i.e. CR-Photos, Mike-Bayne-Photos, etc. Only then is there enough granularity for the restore admin to seek and find the proper folder. |
Preparation of the Windows caching server
- Install the latest SEP sesam Windows Client on this Server
- Add this Server as a client to SEP sesam
- In case the Backup Server is a Windows system, nothing more has to be installed and you can use this
- Install the latest "Filr Client"
- Log on with the new prepared backup account which will be used to get all the shared files and directories
- Select a directory or partition with enough space to save all the directories and files from all replicated shares
ToDo |
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- In the next part we will create a backup job to backup the folders provided by the "FILR client". This contains all folders and documents that were released on the user "backup" from the previous example.
- This backup task includes all files which are shared with the "backup" account. This task can run from now on using either FULL/DIFF/INC or COPY backup methodology.