1.18 Post-Backup Tasks

Once GroupWise Disaster Recovery has been installed, profiles created, backups saved and Restore Areas setup, additional configuration tasks may be completed.

These tasks include:

  • Auto-GroupWise Disaster Recovery for always on backup access

  • Tape backups for long term storage

  • The number of backups to keep

1.18.1 Configure Auto-GroupWise Disaster Recovery

GroupWise Disaster Recovery can be set to always have the latest backup available so users can just use the Restore area without having to make a call to the help desk. This will not help if they deleted something a week ago, an older backup will need to be activated but it does reduce calls to the help desk.

Prerequisites

  1. Profile created

  2. Backup stored

  3. Restore Area setup

Configure Auto-GroupWise Disaster Recovery

To configure Auto-GroupWise Disaster Recovery:

  1. Browse to the GroupWise Disaster Recovery Server Web Administration Console

  2. Select the Profile for the post office.

  3. Navigate to Configure > User Access to Backups, and enable [Auto-Reload] Load the Most Recent Backup.

1.18.2 Configure Tape Backups

GroupWise Disaster Recovery can create TAR files for long term backup storage. GroupWise Disaster Recovery creates a single file from the previous week's worth of backups, but can be set to split it into smaller chunks that will fit the backup media. Advanced settings can be used to run bash scripts before and/or after the tape backup runs.

Prerequisite

Create a directory for the tape backup TAR files. This can be a mount to another server. For example:

mkdir /reload/tape

Configure Tape Backups

  1. Browse to the GroupWise Disaster Recovery Web Console.

  2. Select the profile.

  3. Select the Configure tab.

  4. Open the Tape Backup panel.

  5. Set Create Tape Archive Files to Enabled, and save.

  6. Set the Tape Archive File Storage Path, and save.

    By default, the schedule is Saturday at 2:00AM. This can be changed under Tape Backup Schedule.

1.18.3 Configure Number of Backups to Keep

By default, GroupWise Disaster Recovery keeps 14 days of backups. You can increase or decrease the amount as needed.

This setting is found in the GroupWise Disaster Recovery Web Administration under the Profile configuration | <select desired profile> | Configure | Backup Job Settings | Number of Backups To Keep.