Primary Site Procedures for Windows Remote Seeding to 7-mode

Create a Base Image Backup of the Windows Primary Node

From your master server, perform a base Image backup of the appropriate nodes or volumes at the primary location.

Note that for Windows Server 2012 and later, source node deduplication is not supported for Image backups. For seeding purposes, the recommended best practice is to disable deduplication on the Windows server or volume that is to be backed up via the base Image backup. After seeding is completed, you can reactivate deduplication on the Windows client.

Note. Before running a base backup, verify that the latest updates for the full installation of are operational.

To create a base Image backup of the Windows primary node:

1. Disable the change journal:

   1. Log into the primary node.

   2. Open the command prompt and move to the product-directory\bin folder.

   3. Type syncui.exe to run the syncui utility.

   4. Type c s localhost sssnap where localhost is the required server name, to connect to the primary node.

   5. Type snap disablecj e: where e: is the required drive letter, to disable the change journal.

      
   6. Type quit to exit the syncui utility.

   The change journal is automatically re-enabled when the image backup is run.The procedure to disable the change journal must be repeated for each volume to be backed up.

2. Open the management console, select the Backup tab, and then click Image.

   For this example, perform a base Image backup of volume E: under the Windows primary windows.client.

3. From the management console, create an Image backup job with the appropriate source and destination selections.

4. On the task pane, click Set Source Options.

5. In the NDMP File History Handling drop-down, click Disable File History.

6. In the Additional NDMP Environment field, type: NIB_BACKUP_SEEDING=Y.

7. Click Save Backup Job, save the job with a unique job name, then run the job.

   For this example, imagebak1 is the backup job’s name.

8. Select the Catalog tab, then click Job Functions. Note the job ID issued for this Image backup job.

   For this example, 1312917715 is the job ID.

   

Transport Windows Media to the Destination Site

Transport the physical media that contains the Image backup to its designated destination, that is, the location of the NetApp storage system.

To transport Windows media to the destination site:

• Because the destination site requires this information when running the next part of the remote seeding process, document the full set of parameter and value combinations, as shown in the following table:

Parameter	Example value
primary node logical name	windows.client
primary node backed up volume	E:
Image backup job name	imagebak1
Image backup job ID	1312917715
Block backup job name	SNAPBAK