Dell EMC Avamar Administration Guide

Dell EMC Avamar

Version 7.5.1

Administration Guide

302-004-297 REV 04 January 2020

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CONTENTS

Figures

13

Tables

15

Preface Chapter 1 Chapter 2

Chapter 3

19

Introduction

23

Avamar system overview.................................................................................. 24

Avamar server...................................................................................... 24

Avamar clients......................................................................................27

User interfaces.................................................................................... 29

Data Domain system support............................................................... 30

Data deduplication............................................................................................. 31

Security and networking................................................................................... 32

Encryption........................................................................................... 32

IPv4 and IPv6 support..........................................................................32

TSL 1.2 encryption protocol required................................................... 33

SSH MAC algorithms........................................................................... 33

Avamar Administrator

35

Overview of Avamar Administrator................................................................... 36

Installing Avamar Administrator........................................................................ 36

Installing Avamar Administrator on Microsoft Windows....................... 36

Installing Avamar Administrator on Linux..............................................37

Upgrading Avamar Administrator...................................................................... 38

Uninstalling Avamar Administrator.................................................................... 38

Editing Avamar Administrator client preferences.............................................. 39

Setting a session time-out for Avamar Administrator........................................39

Starting Avamar Administrator......................................................................... 40

Avamar Administrator dashboard.......................................................................41

launcher link..........................................................................................41

System Information panel.................................................................... 42

Activities panel.....................................................................................45

Capacity panel..................................................................................... 46

Critical Events panel............................................................................ 46

Avamar Administrator user interface elements..................................................47

Status bar............................................................................................ 47

Navigation tree features...................................................................... 50

Mouse shortcuts...................................................................................51

Client Management

53

Overview of Avamar clients.............................................................................. 54

Client domains.................................................................................................. 54

Creating a domain................................................................................ 55

Editing domain information.................................................................. 55

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Deleting a domain................................................................................ 56 Client registration............................................................................................. 56

Client-side registration.........................................................................57 Registering a client in Avamar Administrator........................................57 Batch client registration.......................................................................57 Activating a client............................................................................................. 60 Re-activating a client........................................................................... 60 Client paging..................................................................................................... 61 Pageable clients....................................................................................61 Non-pageable clients............................................................................ 61 Editing client paging settings............................................................... 62 Editing client information.................................................................................. 63 Viewing client properties...................................................................................63 Enabling and disabling a client...........................................................................64 Moving a client to a new domain....................................................................... 65 Retiring a client.................................................................................................65 Deleting a client................................................................................................ 66

Chapter 4

User Management and Authentication

67

Overview of Avamar user accounts...................................................................68

User authentication.......................................................................................... 68

How Avamar authenticates users and assigns roles............................. 69

Avamar internal authentication......................................................................... 69

Directory service authentication....................................................................... 70

LDAP directory service authentication..................................................71

OpenLDAP directory service authentication.........................................78

Adding an NIS directory service........................................................... 83

Error messages during directory service configuration........................ 84

Adding an LDAP map........................................................................... 85

Editing the role for an LDAP map......................................................... 86

Deleting an LDAP map......................................................................... 86

Editing the time-out value for directory service processes...................87

Enabling backward compatibility with Enterprise Authentication...................... 88

Roles.................................................................................................................88

Administrator roles...............................................................................89

Operator roles......................................................................................89

User roles............................................................................................. 91

Adding a user to a client or domain.................................................................... 91

Editing user information....................................................................................93

Deleting a user.................................................................................................. 93

Chapter 5

Backup

95

Performing on-demand backups....................................................................... 96

Performing an on-demand backup of a client....................................... 96

Performing an on-demand group backup............................................. 97

Scheduling backups.......................................................................................... 97

Datasets...............................................................................................98

Schedules........................................................................................... 103

Rules.................................................................................................. 109

Retention policies................................................................................ 111

Groups................................................................................................ 116

Enabling scheduled backups............................................................... 125

Monitoring backups......................................................................................... 125

Canceling backups...........................................................................................125

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Managing completed backups......................................................................... 126 Finding a completed backup to manage.............................................. 126 Validating a backup............................................................................. 127 Changing the expiration date for a backup..........................................127 Changing the retention type for a backup...........................................128 Viewing backup statistics....................................................................129 Deleting a backup............................................................................... 130

Application consistent SQL virtual machine image backup

131

About advanced policies.................................................................................. 132

Prerequisites................................................................................................... 132

Add an advanced policy................................................................................... 132

Configure a source..............................................................................133

Configure the group policy..................................................................133

Configure members............................................................................ 134

Configure a proxy for the image backup............................................. 135

Remove an advanced policy.............................................................................135

Edit an advanced policy................................................................................... 135

View advanced policy details........................................................................... 136

View logs......................................................................................................... 136

Restore requirements...................................................................................... 136

Software requirements for restore..................................................... 137

Tail-log backup and point-in-time restore requirements......................137

Requirements to restore secondary database files..............................138

Requirements to restore the Report Server database.........................139

SQL Server write permission requirements.........................................139

Finding a backup..............................................................................................139

Finding a backup by date.................................................................... 139

Finding a backup by content............................................................... 142

Determine the restore size for an SQL server database...................................145

Determine the space required to restore the system database........... 145

Determine the space required to restore a single SQL server database....

145

Determine the space required to restore multiple SQL server databases

........................................................................................................... 146

Restoring to the original location..................................................................... 146

Restoring to a new database in the original instance....................................... 148

Restoring to a different instance..................................................................... 149

Restoring to a file.............................................................................................151

Restoring to a file with the SQL Server plug-in...................................152

Restoring to a file with the Windows File System plug-in................... 153

Restoring a database with SQL Server tools.......................................155

Restoring system databases............................................................................159

Restoring system databases automatically to the original location..... 160

Restoring system databases manually to the original location............. 161

Restoring system databases to a different instance........................... 163

Restoring to an AlwaysOn availability group.................................................... 165

Restoring to the original availability group.......................................... 166

Restoring to a new database in the original availability group..............167

Restoring to a different availability group........................................... 167

Restoring to a SQL Server instance without availability groups.......... 168

Restoring to operating system files.................................................... 168

Restoring a database with an intact log file..................................................... 168

Setting restore options....................................................................................169

General restore options...................................................................... 170

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