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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
c (Optional) Enable or disable point-in-time recovery.
d (Optional) Specify a backup label.
4 Review your backup settings and click OK to confirm.
What to do next
To view a list of backups and the status of each backup, open the database by double-clicking the database
name in the Manage & Monitor tab. Click the Backup & Recovery tab in the middle pane. The list of database
backups appears in the Backup List section.
To review the backup schedule, click the Backup Schedule link.
To take a one-time manual backup, right-click the database name in the navigation pane and select Take
Manual Backup.
Recover a Database
Your ability to recover databases depends on scheduling regular backups. You can recover databases from
backups taken using Data Director or from external backups taken using utilities such as VMware Virtual Data
Recovery (VDR).
Regularly scheduled backups ensure that you can recover your databases and restore your data in the event
of system failure or data corruption. See “Schedule Regular Database Backups,” on page 82.
The recovered database is a full copy that is independent from any previously taken snapshot backup or clone
database. A side-effect of this process is that you have a database that can be resized. Databases with snapshot
backups or linked clones cannot be resized.
Prerequisites
Log in to Data Director as a user with appropriate privileges.
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Create Snapshots
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Create External Backups
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Delete Snapshots
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Delete External Backups
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Recover
Procedure
1 In Data Director, select the organization and click the Manage & Monitor tab.
2 In the navigation pane, select your database group, and click the down arrow to show the list of databases.
3 Right-click your database name and select Recover.
4 In the Recover dialog, select recovery options, depending on your setup.
5 Click OK to start the recovery process.
The database is unavailable while the recovery operation is in progress.
Data Director takes a complete backup of your restored database after database recovery finishes. This post-
restore backup becomes your baseline backup.
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