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MODULE 10 - DYNAMIC NAS PROTECTION

LESSON 2 - PROTECT CIFS SHARE USING POWERPROTECT DATA MANAGER WITH INDEXING ENABLED

Create a Protection Policy

Create a Policy

We use a Helper Fuction New-PPDMBackupSchedule to Create a Stage0 Backup Schedule Object that we will use in the Protection Policy

Recurrence: Hourly
Create Copy: 8 Hours
Keep For: 5 Days
Start Time: 08:00 PM
End Time: 06:00 AM

$Schedule=New-PPDMBackupSchedule -hourly -CreateCopyIntervalHrs 8 -RetentionUnit DAY -RetentionInterval 5

In addition, we need to identify the StorageSystem to backup to.

$StorageSystem=Get-PPDMStorage_systems -Type DATA_DOMAIN_SYSTEM -Filter {name eq "ddve-01.demo.local"}

And also, we need the already existing Credentials:

$Creds=Get-PPDMcredentials -type nas -filter ‘name eq”Isilon”’

Once we identified and created the Ressources aligned to the Policy, we create the Policy with

Name: NAS Backup Description: Protect NAS Data Type: NAS

$PolicyName="NAS Backup"
$PolicDescription="Protect NAS Data"
$Policy=New-PPDMNASBackupPolicy -Schedule $Schedule `
-Name $PolicyName `
-Description $PolicDescription `
-StorageSystemID $StorageSystem.id `
-indexingEnabled `
-enabled `
-NASCid $Creds.id `
-ContinueOn ACL_ACCESS_DENIED,DATA_ACCESS_DENIED
$Policy

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Assigning Assets top the Policy

Now we need to Assign the Asset(s) to the Protection Policy. Therefore, we filter an asset query to the Share win-share01:

$Asset=Get-PPDMassets -type NAS_SHARE -filter 'name eq "win-share01"'

Using the Policy Object from the Previously create Policy, we can run

$Policy | Add-PPDMProtection_policy_assignment -AssetID $Asset.id

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Monitoring the Activities

 Get-PPDMactivities -filter "name lk `"%$PolicyName%`""

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Start an AdHoc protection

There are Several ways to start a Protection Policy. For an AdHoc Protection, we would select and individual AssetId and start the Protection with the given Stage0 defaults of the Policy.

Start-PPDMprotection -PolicyObject $Policy -AssetIDs $Asset.id

Monitor the Backups with:

Get-PPDMactivities -filter "category eq `"protect`" and name lk `"%$PolicyName%`"" -pageSize 3 6> out-null | ft state, progress, name

Or in a loop:

do { Sleep 5;$Activity=Get-PPDMactivities -filter "category eq `"protect`" and name lk `"%$PolicyName%`"" 6>$null; write-host -NoNewline "$($Activity.progress)% "} until ($Activity.state -eq "COMPLETED")

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Monitor Indexing

Indexing will start right after the Backup. As with category protect, we can use the category indexing to Mounitor:

Get-PPDMactivities -filter "category eq `"index`" and name lk `"%$PolicyName%`"" -pageSize 3 6> out-null
Get-PPDMactivities -filter "category eq `"index`" and name lk `"%$PolicyName%`"" -pageSize 3 6> out-null | ft state, progress, name

Or in a loop:

do { Sleep 5;$Activity=Get-PPDMactivities -filter "category eq `"index`" and name lk `"%$PolicyName%`"" 6>$null; write-host -NoNewline "$($Activity.progress)% "} until ($Activity.state -eq "COMPLETED")

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