Data backup and recovery on CloudBolt Documentation

Add a data protection plan

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The connection tells CMP where your backup system is and how to authenticate to it. The imported plans are the subset you want CMP users to choose from.

Prerequisites

At least one protection plan exists in your external backup system.
You must be an administrator to access the Data Protection page.
For Azure Backup, an Azure resource handler is already configured.

Configure your resource handler to identify servers by fully qualified domain name rather than by IP address, since most backup systems track machines by host name.

Data protection plan parameters

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Add the parameter where your servers are ordered, and Cloud Management Platform offers the imported plans.

The parameter can sit on an environment, a group, or a server. When added to an environment, every server ordered into it can then carry a plan. A blueprint can pin the plan to a value or leave it to be chosen at order time.

Add the parameter to an environment

Go to the environment.
Open the Parameters tab.
Select Add.
Locate and select Data Protection Plan.
Select Add in the dialog.

The parameter now applies to servers ordered into this environment.

Restore from snapshots

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Cloud Management Platform (CMP) lists those snapshots on the server and can ask your backup system to restore one.

CMP does not hold the snapshots or perform the restore. It reads the snapshot list from your backup system and passes your request back to it.

Prerequisites

The server has a Data Protection Plan value.
You are an administrator or hold the Restore Data Protection Snapshots permission. Without it, the tab lists snapshots but shows no Actions column.

Restore a server from a snapshot

The restore begins as soon as you select the restore icon. For most technologies, it replaces the running server.

Azure Backup

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Cloud Management Platform (CMP) imports those policies as protection plans and enables backup on a server under the policy you choose.

CMP reaches Azure Backup through an existing Azure resource handler and uses its credentials, so what that resource handler can do in your subscription is what Azure Backup can do.

Prerequisites

An Azure resource handler configured in CMP.
A Recovery Services vault in that subscription, holding at least one backup policy for Azure virtual machines.
The resource handler’s account has permission to enable backup on a VM. See Microsoft’s Azure VM backup FAQ.

Set up the vault and policy in Azure

CMP only reads the vault and its policies, so create both in Azure first.

Commvault backup and recovery

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Cloud Management Platform (CMP) imports those groups, so the choice on an order form is which VM group the new server should join. How Commvault identifies a machine determines what a restore produces.

Prerequisites

A resource handler in CMP for a platform Commvault supports.
In Commvault: storage, a hypervisor, a server backup plan, and at least one VM group with that plan assigned to it. See Commvault’s documentation for how to set these up.

Configure your resource handler to identify servers by fully qualified domain name rather than by IP address, since Commvault tracks machines by their hostnames.

Veeam UI extension

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Each server then gains a Veeam tab for backups and restores to AWS or Azure.

Veeam has its own admin page and server tab, and it does not use the Data Protection Plan parameter or the Data Protection tab.

Prerequisites

A running Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager that CMP can reach. CMP talks to its REST API, which listens on port 9399 by default.
An Enterprise Manager account, with its username and password.
CMP administrator access for both the Library and the extension’s admin page.

Install the extension

In the main menu, select Library.
Type Veeam in the search field, or browse to UI Extensions.
Select Veeam, then select Import.

CMP takes you to the Extensions Management page, which you can reach later from Admin > Manage UI Extensions.