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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Practical Guidance for Deployment, Configuration, and Usage
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Chapter 1. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus product architecture and components
1.1 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus overview
1.1.1 Key concepts
1.2 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus architecture
1.2.1 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server
1.2.2 Site
1.2.3 vSnap Backup Storage server
1.2.4 VADP proxy server
1.2.5 Data flows
1.3 SLA backup policies
1.3.1 Backup parameters and retention management
1.3.2 Backup jobs: Associate Backup Clients to an SLA
1.3.3 SLA to Site to vSnap server relationship
Chapter 2. Solution architecture, planning, and design
2.1 Solution design introduction
2.2 Design
2.2.1 Understand the IT infrastructure to be protected
2.2.2 Solution requirements
2.2.3 System context
2.2.4 Architectural Overview Diagram
2.3 Planning the solution
2.3.1 Deployment options for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
2.3.2 Scaling the environment
2.3.3 Disaster Recovery and high availability with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
2.3.4 Network
2.3.5 Encryption
2.3.6 Architectural decisions template
2.4 Sizing
Chapter 3. Installation and deployment
3.1 Overview
3.2 Prerequisites for an IBM Spectrum Protect Plus deployment
3.2.1 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server requirements
3.2.2 vSnap Backup Storage server requirements
3.2.3 VADP proxy server requirements
3.3 Installation and deployment
3.3.1 Deploying the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server
3.3.2 Deploying the vSnap Backup Storage server
3.4 Configuring IBM Spectrum Protect Plus environment
3.4.1 Configuring the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server
3.4.2 Configuring the vSnap Backup Storage server
3.4.3 Configuring NTP for the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus and vSnap servers
3.4.4 Connect vSnap and VADP servers with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server
3.4.5 Adding an SLA for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus catalog backup
3.4.6 Backing up the vSnap server system configuration
3.4.7 Changing and verifying the schedules of the predefined jobs
Chapter 4. Networking
4.1 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus networking
4.2 Understanding network data flows
4.2.1 VADP backend data flow
4.2.2 VADP front end data flow
4.3 Establishing connections through firewalls
4.3.1 Communication between IBM Spectrum Protect Plus components
4.3.2 Communication to VMs, applications, and file systems
4.4 Configuring IBM Spectrum Protect Plus to use a dedicated backup network
4.4.1 Preparing the VMware ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V Hypervisors
4.4.2 Preparing the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus virtual appliance
4.4.3 Preparing the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vSnap server
4.4.4 Preparing the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus VADP proxy (VMware only)
4.4.5 Enabling or disabling specific protocols on a network interface
4.4.6 Special Configuration: Forcing VADP front end traffic to use a dedicated interface
4.4.7 Editing firewall ports
4.4.8 Testing network connectivity
Chapter 5. Daily operations and maintenance
5.1 Role-based access control overview
5.1.1 Planning user, roles, and resource groups
5.1.2 Creating resource groups
5.1.3 Creating roles
5.1.4 Creating users
5.2 Daily operations
5.2.1 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus in Spectrum Protect Operations Center
5.2.2 Built-in and custom reports
5.2.3 Morning Healthcheck routine
5.3 Maintenance
5.3.1 Update IBM Spectrum Protect Plus components
5.3.2 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus troubleshooting (log files)
5.3.3 Managing the vSnap server
5.3.4 Configuring LDAP and SMTP
5.3.5 Administrative Console
5.3.6 Managing global preferences
5.3.7 Managing the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus catalog
5.3.8 Search guidelines
5.3.9 Testing network connectivity
5.3.10 Messages
5.4 vSnap server CLI
5.5 vSnap server initialization
5.6 Checking vSnap server status
5.7 vSnap server preferences
5.7.1 Changing replication streams and timeouts
5.8 vSnap server volumes and snapshots
5.8.1 Volumes and snapshots for backup data
5.8.2 Volumes and snapshots for replication data
Chapter 6. Backing up and restoring virtualized systems
6.1 VM backup configuration basics
6.1.1 Create an identity
6.1.2 Add a virtualized system resource
6.1.3 Assigning an SLA policy
6.1.4 Running a backup job for an SLA
6.1.5 Running a backup for a single VM
6.1.6 Distributing VM backups to multiple vSnap servers
6.1.7 Backup options
6.2 Catalog file metadata for single file restore
6.2.1 Configure requirements
6.2.2 Configuring file metadata discovery
6.2.3 Restoring single files and directories
6.3 VM restore and data reuse
6.3.1 Restore wizard
6.3.2 Restore schedule
6.3.3 Restore Source (Location) and Restore Points
6.3.4 Restore destination
6.3.5 Restore methods
6.3.6 Restore Options
6.3.7 Restoring a VDisk
6.3.8 Restoring a VM from primary site
6.3.9 Restoring a VM from secondary (replication) site
6.3.10 Restoring a VM and changing static IP address on one NIC
6.3.11 Restoring a VM and changing static IP addresses on two NICs
6.4 Protecting and recovering Amazon EC2 data
6.4.1 Amazon EC2 requirements and account management
6.4.2 Amazon EC2 data protection and recovery
Chapter 8. Backing up and restoring databases
8.1 Database backup configuration basics
8.1.1 Creating an Identity
8.1.2 Adding an application server
8.1.3 Assigning an SLA policy
8.1.4 Running a backup
8.2 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus database restore and data reuse
8.2.1 Test restore
8.2.2 Instant access
8.2.3 Production restore
8.3 Database protection and vSnap server operations
8.3.1 Backup operations
8.3.2 Restore operations
8.4 Oracle overview
8.4.1 Server registration
8.4.2 Oracle multi-threading
8.4.3 Oracle backup
8.4.4 Oracle Block Change Tracking
8.4.5 Compression
8.4.6 Troubleshooting hint
8.4.7 Oracle commands used by IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
8.5 Database backup with pre-script and post-script
Chapter 9. Backing up and restoring MongoDB databases
9.1 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus requirements for MongoDB
9.1.1 Fundamental IBM Spectrum Protect Plus requirements for MongoDB
9.1.2 MongoDB databases without authentication
9.1.3 MongoDB databases with authentication enabled
9.1.4 Register a MongoDB server
9.2 MongoDB backup and restore with Spectrum Protect Plus
9.2.1 MongoDB backup
9.2.2 MongoDB restore
Chapter 11. Backing up and restoring SQL Server
11.1 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus SQL Server features
11.2 Prerequisites for SQL Server databases
11.3 Protecting SQL Server databases
11.3.1 Register the SQL Server
11.3.2 Defining an SQL Server backup job
11.3.3 SQL database backups logs
11.3.4 vSnap commands used to manage SQL database backups logs
11.3.5 Parallel ad-hoc SQL database backups
11.3.6 SQL Server global preferences
11.4 Restoring SQL Server databases
Chapter 12. Backing up and restoring Microsoft Exchange data
12.1 Microsoft Exchange server
12.1.1 Server roles
12.1.2 Stand-alone or availability group databases
12.1.3 Mailbox movement
12.1.4 Microsoft built-in data loss prevention
12.2 Prerequisites for protection in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
12.2.1 Granular restore remote package installation
12.3 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus configuration for Exchange
12.3.1 Log backup
12.3.2 Database Availability Groups
12.4 Backup jobs overview
12.4.1 Assigning an SLA policy
12.4.2 Backup types
12.4.3 Scheduled backup
12.4.4 Ad hoc backup
12.5 Restore jobs
12.5.1 Complete Restore
12.5.2 Restoring individual items with granular restore
Chapter 13. Backing up and restoring Microsoft 365 data
13.1 Solution overview
13.2 Prerequisites
13.2.1 Proxy host server
13.2.2 Microsoft 365 application registration and API permissions
13.3 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus configuration for Microsoft 365
13.4 Protecting Microsoft 365 accounts
13.4.1 Planning considerations
13.4.2 Configuring Microsoft 365 protection
13.4.3 Restoring Microsoft 365 data
13.5 Exchange Hybrid Environments
Chapter 15. Replication and additional copies
15.1 Reasons to create more copies of backup data
15.2 Extra copies: Overview and options comparison
15.2.1 Replication of backup data
15.2.2 Additional copies to Object Storage
15.2.3 Additional copies to a repository server
15.2.4 Dual-site backup using multiple SLAs
15.2.5 Comparing the options
15.3 Replicating backup data
15.3.1 Configuring vSnap replication
15.3.2 Running the vSnap replication
15.3.3 Determining space that is replicated on the Target vSnap
15.3.4 vSnap commands for data replication
15.4 Additional copies to Object Storage, tape, or archival storage
15.4.1 Prerequisites
15.4.2 Preparing Object Storage providers
15.4.3 Preparing repository server storage
15.4.4 Configuring an Object Storage provider in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
15.4.5 Configuring additional copies to Object storage in the SLA
15.4.6 vSnap commands for Object Storage data
15.5 Configuring a multi-site backup
15.6 Creating incremental and full copies of backup data to an IBM Spectrum Protect server
15.6.1 Preparing the IBM Spectrum Protect server
15.6.2 Registering an IBM Spectrum Protect server as Repository server in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
15.6.3 Creating an SLA that creates regular additional copies to IBM Spectrum Protect
15.6.4 Running the SLA and observe the job results
Chapter 16. REST API
16.1 REST API overview
16.2 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus REST API
16.2.1 REST API documentation
16.3 Discovering the REST API
16.3.1 CURL
16.3.2 Firefox RESTclient
16.4 Use Case: Starting a VM backup of VMs by using a REST API with Python
16.4.1 Overview
16.4.2 Trace GUI REST operations by using Firefox
16.4.3 Python code overview
16.5 The sppclient: a Python library for REST operations
16.5.1 The sppclient scripts: General usage information
16.5.2 The sppclient script overview and selected examples
16.6 API response code
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