Backup Copy

Lab 11

Learning objectives
After completing this lab, you should be able to:
• Create a new Catalyst store on a remote StoreOnce
• Create a Veeam backup repository based on a remote StoreOnce
• Create a Veeam backup copy job

Overview
Before configuring a backup repository, a StoreOnce Catalyst store must be created on the StoreOnce appliance that will
store the backups and backup copies. The repository can be created based on a Catalyst store and the backup copy job can
target it.

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Exercise 1: Create a new Catalyst store on a remote StoreOnce

1. Open Chrome by using its desktop icon.

2. Click the storeonce-02.edu.lab bookmark.

3. If you are prompted for security, click Advanced and Proceed to storeonce-02.edu.lab (unsafe) to continue to the
website.
4. Enter the login information and click Log In.
– User name: Admin
– Password: Storeonce01! (The password is case sensitive.)

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5. From the System Dashboard window, click Catalyst Stores in the Data Services section.

6. Click + Create Store from the right-side Actions menu.

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7. Name it SQL-remote. This time set edit Advanced Settings from the beginning and set a Secondary Transfer
Policy to Low Bandwidth. Confirm with Yes and click the Create button

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8. Wait for the task to finish and for the Configure Clients Access window to appear. For simplicity we are going to use
Public Access. This means that everyone will be allowed to access it, which is fine in this isolated environment. Click the
pencil icon.

9. Press Enable Public Access and click Update.

10. Confirm the warning with the checkbox and click Update again.

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11. Make sure Public Access is now visible as Enabled and confirm with OK.

You have successfully created a new Catalyst store.

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Exercise 2: Create a Veeam backup repository based on a remote

StoreOnce
1. Go back to the Veeam UI. From the configuration menus in the bottom left, click Backup Infrastructure. In the tree
structure on the left, make sure that Backup Repositories is selected. From the main panel, click Add Repository to
configure a backup repository.

2. Select the Deduplicating Storage appliance type.

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3. Select the HPE StoreOnce storage appliance.

4. Provide “StoreOnce-Remote” as a name and click Next.

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5. Enter the StoreOnce FQDN (storeonce-02.edu.lab) and select the same credentials you used for the original
StoreOnce. Verify that credentials (they should be called “StoreOnce Credentials”) are set and press Next.

On the Catalyst store field, select SQL-remote. Click Next to proceed.

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6. Keep the default and click Next.

7. Keep the default and click Apply.

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8. Verify that all steps finished successfully. Click Next and then Finish.

9. Press Finish on the Summary step.

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10. If the following prompt is shown, click No to avoid having Veeam saves its configuration and its catalog to the new
backup repository.

11. Verify that the new backup repository, StoreOnce-Remote is correctly reported.

You have successfully created a new Veeam Backup Repository based on your remote Catalyst store.

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Exercise 3: Create a Veeam backup copy Job

1. Select Home, highlight Jobs, and click Backup Copy and then Virtual machine to start the wizard.

Provide a job name, “SQL copy from Primary Site” and click Next.

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2. Click Add...

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3. Select the SQL-VM backup job to be copied and press OK.

4. We should see the SQL-VM backup job in our backup copy job. Click Next.

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5. Under the Backup repository, select the StoreOnce-Remote that we created before and then click Next.

6. Click Next to move forward while keeping the Direct data transfer.

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7. Leave the default and click Apply.

8. Make sure the checkbox is unchecked and click Finish.

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9. Go to Jobs → Backup Copy. Verify that the new job named “SQL copy from Primary Site” is correctly reported. Note that
you might also see other jobs from past labs you have done.

You have successfully created a new Veeam Backup Job.

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Exercise 4: Execute and monitor a Veeam backup copy job

1. Select Home, click Backup Copy, and right-click the job named SQL copy from Primary Site. Disable the Disable
attribute.

2. Give it up to 5 minutes to detect the existing backup of your SQL VM. It will start to copy it automatically. If for some
reason it still does not start, right-click the job again and select Active Full to force a start. Allow it to run for about
10 minutes.

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3. When the job is almost done, establish sessions to web interfaces of both StoreOnce VSAs.

4. Open Chrome by using its desktop icon.

5. Click the storeonce-01.edu.lab bookmark in one tab and storeonce-02.edu.lab in a second.

6. Enter the login information and click Log In.

– User name: Admin
– Password: Storeonce01! (The password is case sensitive.)

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7. Go to Reports for both of them and compare results. As you can see, data is read from the local StoreOnce (storeonce-
01) and written to the remote one (storeonce-02).

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8. When the job is done, go to Jobs → Disk (Copy). Find your backup copy job and observe the copied VM inside.

9. For target/remote StoreOnce appliances, go to Data Services and click Catalyst Stores.

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10. Click your Catalyst store, SQL-Remote.

11. Review Catalyst store saved objects. In order to do that, switch to the Items tab. Notice how items and tags are named.

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12. Copy can be used the same way as original when it comes to recovery. If time allows, you can try it by yourself.

That concludes the lab.

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