Backup Definition: Overview

To back up data, create a backup definition. A backup definition is required for simple one-time backups as well as for complex, regularly scheduled backups. Once the backup definition has been specified, you must save it as a backup job.

The backup definition specifies the following:

Mode

The method for transferring backup data: Block, Agentless VMware, NDMP, Image, File.

Source

The data to be backed up.

Destination

The devices or device paths and media to which the data is backed up.

Source Options, Destination Options, and Job Notification Options

Rules of behavior associated with the backup. If you do not set these options, uses the defaults you set during configuration. See Chapter 16: Configuring Defaults.

File Exclusion Rules

Rules describing classes of files to be excluded from the backup source set. If you do not set these rules at backup time, DPX uses the defaults you set during configuration.

Schedule

The time and frequency of the backup. The schedule also allows you to specify a base/incremental/differential backup scheme. You can save and manually run a job without defining a schedule.

The following are the steps required for creating a backup definition:

DPX supports three types of backups: base, differential, and incremental. You set this when you specify a backup schedule or before you run a backup job.

Note that for DPX 4.4.3 and later, for Windows operating systems, the Recovery Partition is always backed up as a base backup in order to improve space handling.

The following defines the three backup types:

Base

Backs up all the files on the specified nodes.

Differential

Backs up all the files on the specified nodes that have changed since the last base backup of the same name.

Incremental

Backs up files on the specified nodes that have changed since the last base or incremental backup with the same name.

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