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Administrators can use the Backup menu in the DataGuard

Management Interface to conﬁgure backup settings. Backup

destinations can be locally connected hard drives or RDX cartridges,

or online remote storage services such as DropBox, Amazon S3, and

OpenStack. Administrators can also create Snapshot Backups and back

up the DataGuard Appliance to an iSCSI target. You can also replicate

one DataGuard Appliance to another.

To display the Backup menu, follow these steps:

1. From the NAS tab, click the Backup menu item.

2. Select the Backup option you want by clicking one of these tabs:

Snapshot Backup, Remote Backup, Local Backup, Amazon S3,

Time Machine Backup, Backup to iSCSI, DropBox, OpenStack

Object Storage, or RDX Backup.

SnapSHot Backup

1. From the NAS tab, click the Backup menu item, then click the

Snapshot Backup folder tab.

2. Click the Create button to display the Create Snapshot menu.

3. Choose the Volume from which to take a Snapshot.

4. Enter a Snapshot Size or use the default (the maximum available);

this must be at least 1.0 GB.

• Auto Extend: (Optional) Click to check the box that enables the

function to use this feature, otherwise leave it unchecked.

• Schedule: (Optional) Choose the schedule option and conﬁgure

the desired schedule for Snapshot backups, Disable, Time interval

by hour, Daily, or Weekly. Default = Disable (no Snapshot is taken).

5. When done, click the Save button to save the settings, or click

the Run button to save the settings and execute the backup

immediately.

6. Once the Snapshot backup conﬁguration is created, the following

options are available (move your pointer over the option and click).

✴ Recovery: Click to restore the data volume using the Snapshot.

✴ Export: Click to export the Snapshot to the share folder.

✴ Settings: Click to change the settings of the backup

conﬁguration.

✴ Delete: Click to delete the backup conﬁguration.

NAS > Backup > Create Snapshot

NAS > Backup

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