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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
Safeguarding Data 10
Data Director provides several options for managing backups and recovering databases.
Taking regular backups of your databases is essential to safeguarding your data. Data Director tracks and
stores changes for each database on a virtual disk associated with that database. Back up your database to
capture the changes, preserves the database, and enables recovering the database and restoring its data after
a failure. You can also restore the database to its state at a particular time and replay changes to troubleshoot
a problem.
Data Director offers the following features for safeguarding data:
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Manual and automated external and snapshot backups.
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Database recovery from external and snapshot backups.
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Point-in-time recovery
You can define backup retention time and storage allocation. You can use one of the predefined backup
templates or create custom backup templates to ensure consistent backups of your databases and to enforce
resource limitations.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Backup Strategies,” on page 78
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“Backup Types,” on page 78
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“Backup Template Settings,” on page 80
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“Preconfigured Backup Templates,” on page 81
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“Select a Database Backup Template,” on page 81
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“Schedule Regular Database Backups,” on page 82
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“Recover a Database,” on page 83
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“Import Backups,” on page 84
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“Use VMware Data Recovery for Backups,” on page 84
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“Database End of Life and Backups,” on page 87
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