Vault

Using Tertiary Media for Backup and Restore   

Tertiary Media is a "backup of a backup" that provides an extra layer of protection for essential data. One way to use tertiary media is to produce off-site copies of backups that are kept on-site for recovery from hardware failure and user errors: if a disaster destroys the office, having offsite copies of backups can save your business.  

Vaulting is a licensed feature and requires a license to be installed on the Amanda server.   When the license is installed on the Amanda server, you can configure Vault jobs from Zmanda Management Console (Amanda Enterprise 3.3.4 or later version is required).  

How to Create Vault Jobs on ZMC 4.1?  

1.    Navigate to Vault tab on the menu as shown on the below image.  

2.    Click on the “Create A Vault Job“ in the right upper corner of the page. 

3. There are 3 types of Backup levels options for vault jobs & 3 types of Backup Run Range.  

a. Latest Full Backup will vault latest full backup taken on a backupset, this option doesn’t have backup range selection.  

b. “Full Backups Only“ vaults all the full backups of the latest runs on a backupset. 

c. “Full Backups Only“ with “Vault all backup runs started in days“ , this option allows to vault jobs having full backup runs in last “N“ number of days as shown below .  

 d. “Full Backups Only“ with “Vault all backup runs started with a time frame“ , this option allows to vault jobs       having full backup runs in a time frame selected as shown below .  

e. “All backup Levels“ will vault “all types of backup levels (full backup, incremental backup and differential backup)“ taken on a backupset having all the latest backup run.  

f. “All Backup Levels“ with “Vault all backup runs started in days“ , this option allows to vault jobs having all backup levels runs in last “N“ number of days as shown below .  

g. “All Backup Levels“ with “Vault all backup runs started with a time frame“ , this option allows to vault jobs having all backup level runs in a time frame selected as shown below .  

4. Select Backupset you want to run vault jobs for, from dropdown list.  

5. Select type of Storage you want to use to vault the backups from dropdown list.  

6. Select the schedule incase you want to schedule the vault jobs from dropdown list.  

7. Add relevant comments if any to the vault job.  

8. Click on save to create the vault job.  

9. As shown on the below image the vault job is created and details of the same can be seen on the image  

10. The “Actions” column allow user to “Activate, Run, Edit & Delete “ the vault jobs based on the icons seen on the below image, we can hover to this icons to seen the action item it can perform..  

Vault to AWS Storage

The backup data can be vaulted on to a cloud storage device (AWS) by selecting the storage device as the cloud device storage (AWS).

When the storage is selected as AWS cloud storage, there appears additional fields namely the 'Location Restriction' and the 'Vault will be stored at'.

Location Restriction

Field allows user to select the required location from the list.

The backup data can be vaulted on to a cloud storage device (AWS) by selecting the storage device as the cloud device storage (AWS).

Vault will be stored at

Input field specifies the bucket name on which the data will be vaulted.