User manual SONICWALL CDP 6.0

[. . . ] Business Continuity Solutions BUSINESS CONTINUITY SonicWALL CDP Series SonicWALL CDP 6. 0 Agent User's Guide SonicWALL CDP Agent User's Guide Version 6. 0 SonicWALL, Inc. 2001 Logic Drive San Jose, CA 95124-3452 Phone: +1. 408. 745. 9600 Fax: +1. 408. 745. 9300 E-mail: info@sonicwall. com Copyright Notice © 2010 SonicWALL, Inc. Under the copyright laws, this manual or the software described within, can not be copied, in whole or part, without the written consent of the manufacturer, except in the normal use of the software to make a backup copy. The same proprietary and copyright notices must be affixed to any permitted copies as were affixed to the original. This exception does not allow copies to be made for others, whether or not sold, but all of the material purchased (with all backup copies) can be sold, given, or loaned to another person. [. . . ] To backup user mailboxes, you must configure an application object, a schedule, and a backup task that includes both the application object and the schedule. SonicWALL CDP 6. 0 Agent User's Guide 58 Backing Up Server Applications The User Mailbox application allows you to add or delete individual user mailboxes for backup, set backup schedules, restore specific backups of individual mailboxes, enter credentials for accessing the Exchange server, and select offsite backup. You can view log entries in the SonicWALL CDP Agent User Interface on the Status tab to verify that backups are successful. Adding User Mailboxes to an Application Object To backup user mailboxes, you must configure an application object, a schedule, and a backup task that includes both the application object and the schedule. You can test the connection to the Exchange Server by clicking the Authentication button while adding or editing an application object. It is not necessary to enter any authentication credentials to test the connection. To create an application object with individual user mailboxes for backup, perform the following steps: Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 In the SonicWALL CDP Agent User Interface, click the Policies tab. The Add Application window Step 4 Step 5 Type a descriptive name for the application object into the Name field. Select Microsoft Exchange - User Mailbox in the Application drop-down list. The list of available applications is automatically populated through a discovery process. For proper discovery, the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy service must not be disabled. See the 'Backup and Recovery Troubleshooting' section in the SonicWALL CDP Administrator's Guide for more information. Under Application items, select the checkboxes for one or more user mailboxes to back up. Step 6 SonicWALL CDP 6. 0 Agent User's Guide 59 Backing Up Server Applications Step 7 If authentication credentials are required to access the Exchange server, or to test the connections to the Exchange server, click the Authentication button. The Authentication dialog box opens. Step 8 Step 9 In the Authentication dialog box, type the domain\username into the Username field and type the password into the Password field. To test the connection between the User Mailbox application and the Exchange server, either with or without credentials, click the Test Connection button. dialog box without saving anything. Step 10 When finished entering the authentication credentials, click Save. Click Cancel to close the Step 11 In the Add Application window, click OK to add the application object. The new application object appears in the Policies screen of the Agent User Interface. Note Before the backup will occur, you must also configure a schedule for this application object, and a backup task that includes both the application object and the schedule. Scheduling Backups for User Mailboxes To backup user mailboxes, you must configure an application object, a schedule, and a backup task that includes both the application object and the schedule. This section describes how to create the schedule object. Note You can use the same schedule object in more than one backup task. To configure a schedule for user mailbox backups, perform the following steps: Step 1 Step 2 In the SonicWALL CDP Agent User Interface, click the Policies tab. In the left pane, select Schedules. SonicWALL CDP 6. 0 Agent User's Guide 60 Backing Up Server Applications Step 3 In the right pane, click the Plus button opens. at the lower right corner. The Add Schedule window Step 4 Step 5 Type a descriptive name for the schedule into the Name field. Select any of the following tabs to configure a schedule that meets your requirements: · Day Interval ­ The backup occurs every so many days calculated from a particular date. ­ Select the number of days for the interval between backups. ­ Select a time to run the backup on those days. · Days of the Week ­ The backup runs on certain days of the week. ­ Select the days of the week, Sunday through Saturday, on which to run the backup. ­ Select the time at which to start the backup. · Days of the Month ­ The backup occurs on certain days of the month. ­ Select the days of the month on which to run the backup. [. . . ] Proper delegation of administration and change enforcement will optimize data consistency, integrity, and security. MSDN Web links: · · · · · · http://support. microsoft. com/?kbid=258062 http://support. microsoft. com/default. aspx?scid=kb;en-us;240655 http://support. microsoft. com/default. aspx?scid=kb;en-us;830574 http://support. microsoft. com/default. aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314980 http://support. microsoft. com/default. aspx?scid=kb;en-us;265089 http://www. microsoft. com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/Operations/f66ee 9e4-96d7-4f74-a2fe-d669194bf5a2. mspx http://support. microsoft. com/default. aspx?scid=kb;en-us;840001 http://support. microsoft. com/kb/239803/ MSDN Engineering recommends the following as the most helpful to see what is happening: · · Restoring Data from Microsoft SQL Server Recovery of data from Microsoft SQL Server using SonicWALL CDP allows users to retrieve Microsoft SQL Server revisions from an agent machine previously configured to backup that data. Microsoft SQL Server recovery can be made directly to the SQL database. When restoring the database to disk, the database is downloaded as a set of files from the SonicWALL CDP Appliance. [. . . ]