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Table Of Contents
- VMware vFabric Data Director Administrator and User Guide
- Contents
- About VMware vFabric Data Director
- Updated Information
- VMware vFabric Data Director and vFabric Postgres Overview
- Managing Data Director Resources
- Managing Users and Roles
- Managing Organizations
- Managing Database Groups
- Managing Database Templates
- Managing Databases
- Cloning Databases
- Managing Database Entities
- Safeguarding Data
- Monitoring the Data Director Environment
- Managing Licenses
- Reconfiguring Data Director Networks
- Change the vCenter IP Address
- Reconfigure the Web Console Network Mapping or Network Adapter
- Reconfigure the vCenter Network Mapping
- Reconfigure the vCenter Network Adapter Settings
- Reconfigure the DB Name Service Network or DB Name Service Network Adapter
- Reconfigure the Internal Network or Internal Network Adapter Mapping
- Verify Network Settings in Data Director
- Data Director Troubleshooting
- Index
7 Specify the general backup settings.
Option Action
Point in time recovery
Enable or disable point-in-time recovery.
Point-in-time recovery ensures that each database transaction is recorded
and enables you to revert the database to any point in time within a certain
time range.
The start time for point-in-time recovery is right after point-in-time recovery
is enabled, when the system creates a baseline backup or snapshot. You
cannot remove the baseline backup. If you do, the start time for point-in-time
recovery changes.
The time range for point-in-time recovery is from the time of your oldest
automatic backup to the present. The oldest backup can be an external
backup or a snapshot. Backups with extended retention are not supported
as oldest backups.
Point-in-time recovery consumes space in the backup storage area.
Depending on database load and retention lengths, this feature might require
a significant amount of storage.
Backup label
Type the first part of the name of the backup.
Defaults to user-specified label-date_and_time-dbname. For your database
named db1, if you entered testbackup as the label and the backup starts at
12:30:45 on May 30, 2011, the full name is
testbackup-2011-05-30-12-30-45-db1.
If you do not specify a label, the system uses the date, time, and database
name.
8 Click Finish to complete creating the template.
What to do next
You can assign the template to databases.
Modify a Backup Template
If the requirements for backups in your environment change, you can modify existing backup templates.
Prerequisites
Log in to Data Director as an organization administrator or as an administrator with privileges to modify a
backup template.
Procedure
1 Click the Administration tab.
2 Click Templates, and click Backup Templates.
3 Right-click the template that you want to modify and perform one of the supported actions.
Action Description
Clone
Creates a copy of this template. When you clone a template, the Create
Backup Template wizard appears and you can configure the backup settings
for the clone.
Delete
Deletes the selected template.
Unpublish
Disables provisioning and other capabilities for this template. When a
template is not published, it can be viewed or managed, but cannot be used
for provisioning or other purpose.
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