How-to Create a Protection Job for NAS Mount Points

Introduction

Expedient Service Delivery staff will perform a base configuration of a Protection Job inside the Cloud Data Protection platform. To create your own Protection Job for NAS Mount Points, follow the below procedure.

Procedure

1. Log in to the Cloud Data Protection system.
2. Upon logging into the cluster, you should be directed to the Protection Jobs page.
3. To register a SQL server, from the navigation bar at the top of the page, select the Protection → Sources tab.
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5. Click , then select NAS.
    
6. Select Mount Point for the 'NAS Source,' NFS for the 'Mode,' and input the full Mount Path(ex. IP:/Volume). Click Register to finish.
   
7. With a successful NAS Mount Point registration and on the Sources page again, search for and find the newly created NAS object.
   
8. Once found, select Protect.
9. Select the NAS mount point. You can add several sources to one job, but they must be registered as a source first.
   
10. Name the protection job in the Group Name
    
11. Select the Protection Policy desired.
    1. Note: Expedient manages all Protection Policies. If modifications are needed to a Protection Policy, please open a ticket with the OSC.

12. Lastly, select the appropriate storage domain (If your account has multiple)
    
13. The Advanced section allows you to modify additional Protection Job settings.
    
    1. End Date                                        Utilize this option to set an end date for the Protection Policy.
    2. QoS Policy                                      Backup HDD is the QoS policy best suited for backups, do not modify this selection.
    3. Pre & Post Scripts                         Use this setting to inject pre or post-scripts.
    4. Skip Files On Errors                       Utilize this option to choose whether to skip files on errors.
    5. Exclusions and Inclusions             Utilize this option to set any desired exclusions or inclusions.
    6. Alerts & Priority                            Utilize this setting to set an email address for backup failure alerts, do not disable alerts if you wish to trigger alerts through the Expedient SMC.
    7. SLA                                                 This setting can be used to set specific SLA thresholds for Incremental and Full backups.
14. Select Protect to save your configurations.