The A Backup Activity defines the what exactly should be backed-up, pre and /post actions and the error policy to use.
There are two types of activities:
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To add a new backup activity, Click , navigate to Mange→ Maintenance→ Backup, select the plan to add an activity to and click "Add Activity" from the Backup Plan Details Page.
The system will display "Add Backup Activity Page will show:" page. Consult the screenshot and the table below in order to create a new backup activity in the system.
Secure Backup
Attribute | Is Mandatory? | Description |
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Device (or Pattern) | Yes | The Device(s) to backup, enter a specific device, pattern with asterisk or a list of devices or patterns See Using Patterns for Device and Domain Names in the Maintenance Concepts page |
Pre-Action Script | No | A user defined script to run before the task is executed. See user defined scripts for more information |
Pre-Action Quiesce | No | Should the device(s) be quiesced before the backup is executed. |
Action | Yes | Select Secure Backup to define a secure backup activity. (Export Domain is described below) |
Certificate Name | Yes | Which The certificate to use for the backup. Click on the ... (Three dots) button to open a window that shows the available certificates on the device, if multiple devices were chosen, the list will show the certificates of the first device - all the . All other devices must have a certificate installed with the same namean identical name to the one selected for the first device. |
Post-Action Unquiesce | No | This option cannot be edited - it will be automatically set to the value of the Pre-Action Quiesce. You can The user may set how long DPOD will wait to waits for the unquiesce operation to finish before canceling cancelling the task via a system parameter (see maintenance configurable parameters for more information) |
Post-Action Script | No | A user defined script to run after the task is executed - you can select if it . |
Error Policy | Yes | Select how this backup activity handles errors. |
Export Domain
Attribute |
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Mandatory? | Description | |
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Device (or Pattern) | Yes | The device(s) to backup |
. Enter a specific device, pattern with asterisk or a list of devices or patterns See Using Patterns for Device and Domain Names in the Maintenance Concepts page | ||
Domain (or Pattern) | Yes | The domain(s) to export |
. Enter a specific domain, pattern with asterisk or a list of domains or patterns See Using Patterns for Device and Domain Names in the Maintenance Concepts page Check "All Domains" to export all domains. | ||
Pre-Action Script | No | A user defined script to run before the task is executed. |
fails (the return code was greater than 0) See user defined scripts for more information | ||
Pre-Action Quiesce | No | Should the domain(s) be quiesced before the backup is executed |
Action | Yes | Export Domain |
Post-Action Unquiesce | No | This option cannot be edited - it will be automatically set to the value of the Pre-Action Quiesce. |
The user may set how long DPOD |
waits for the unquiesce operation to finish before |
cancelling the task via a system parameter (see maintenance configurable parameters for more information) | ||
Post-Action Script | No | A user defined script to run after the task is executed |
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when the task |
execution fails. | ||
Error Policy | Yes | Select how this backup activity handles errors. |
Use the value that was set for the plan |
When the task failed |
validation or execution, stop all other tasks from this plan that are waiting for execution |
When the task failed validation or execution, ignore and continue to run other tasks from this plan |
Edit, Delete or Reorder Activities
The Backup Plan Details Page allows the user to edit, delete or reorder activities.