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A message indicating that the deployment has started appears. You can view the progress in the Events tab. 7. Click Show details to view more information about the status of the agent deployment. 8. Click OK. Protecting a machine This topic describes how to start protecting the data on a machine that you specify. NOTE: The machine must have the AppAssure Agent software installed in order to be protected. You can choose to install the AppAssure Agent software prior to this procedure, or you can deploy the software to the agent as you define protection in the Connection dialog box. To install the AppAssure Agent software during the process of protecting a machine, see Deploying The Agent Software When Protecting An Agent. When you add protection, you must specify the name or IP address of the machine to protect and the volumes on that machine to protect as well as define the protection schedule for each volume. To protect multiple machines at the same time, see Protecting Multiple Machines. To protect a machine: 1. Reboot the machine on which the AppAssure Agent software is installed, if you haven't already done so. 2. From the Core Console on the core machine, click Protect → Protect Machine on the button bar. The Protect Machine Wizard appears. 3. On the Welcome page, select the appropriate installation options: • If you do not need to define a repository or establish encryption, select Typical. • If you do not wish to see the Welcome page for the Protect Machine Wizard in the future, select the Skip this Welcome page the next time the wizard opens option. 4. Click Next. 5. On the Connection page, enter the information about the machine to which you want to connect as described in the following table. Text Box Description Host The host name or IP address of the machine that you want to protect. Port The port number on which the AppAssure Core communicates with the agent on the machine. The default port number is 8006. Username The user name used to connect to this machine; for example, administrator. Password The password used to connect to this machine. 6. Click Next. If the Protection page appears next in the Protect Machine Wizard, skip to Step 7. NOTE: If the Install Agent page appears next in the Protect Machine Wizard, this indicates that the Agent software is not yet on installed on the designated machine. Click Next to install the Agent software. The Agent software must be installed on the machine you want to protect, and that be restarted, before it can back up to the Core. To have the installer reboot the agent machine, select the After installation, restart the machine automatically (recommended) option before clicking Next. 7. The host name or IP address you specified in the Connect dialog box appears in this text field. Optionally, enter a new name for the machine to be displayed in the Core Console. 34

Section	Page
Dell DL1000 Appliance User's Guide	3
Introducing your Dell DL1000	7
Dell DL1000 core technologies	7
Live Recovery	7
Universal Recovery	7
True Global Deduplication	8
Encryption	8
Dell DL1000 data protection features	8
Dell DL1000 Core	8
Dell DL1000 Smart Agent	9
Snapshot process	9
Replication — disaster recovery site or service provider	9
Recovery	10
Recovery-as-a-Service	10
Virtualization and cloud	10
Dell DL1000 deployment architecture	10
Other information you may need	12
Working with your DL1000	14
Accessing the DL1000 Core Console	14
Updating trusted sites in Internet Explorer	14
Configuring browsers to remotely access the core console	14
Managing licenses	15
Changing a license key	16
Contacting the license portal server	16
Changing the AppAssure language manually	16
Changing the OS language during installation	17
Managing core settings	17
Changing the core display name	17
Changing the nightly job time	18
Modifying the transfer queue settings	18
Adjusting the client time-out settings	18
Configuring deduplication cache settings	18
Modifying engine settings	19
Modifying deploy settings	20
Modifying database connection settings	20
Managing Events	21
Configuring notification groups	21
Configuring an email server	22
Configuring an Email notification template	23
Configuring repetition reduction	24
Configuring Event Retention	24
Managing repositories	24
Viewing repository details	25
Checking a repository	25
Managing security	25
Adding an encryption key	26
Editing an encryption key	26
Changing an encryption key passphrase	26
Importing an encryption key	27
Exporting an encryption key	27
Removing an encryption key	27
Managing cloud accounts	27
Adding a cloud account	28
Editing a cloud account	29
Configuring cloud account settings	29
Removing a Cloud account	30
Monitoring your DL1000	30
Upgrading your DL1000	30
Repairing your DL1000	30
Rapid Appliance Self Recovery	30
Protecting workstations and servers	33
About protecting workstations and servers	33
Deploying an Agent (Push Install)	33
Protecting a machine	34
Pausing and resuming protection	36
Deploying the Agent Software when protecting an agent	36
Understanding protection schedules	37
Creating custom schedules	38
Modifying protection schedules	38
Configuring protected machine settings	39
Viewing and modifying configuration settings	39
Viewing system information for a machine	40
Viewing license information	41
Modifying transfer settings	41
Archiving data	43
Creating an archive	43
Importing an archive	45
Archiving to a cloud	47
Viewing system diagnostics	47
Viewing machine logs	47
Uploading machine logs	47
Canceling operations on a machine	47
Viewing machine status and other details	47
Managing multiple machines	48
Deploying To Multiple Machines	49
Monitoring the deployment of multiple machines	49
Protecting multiple machines	50
Monitoring the protection of multiple machines	51
Recovering data	52
Managing recovery	52
Managing snapshots and recovery points	52
Viewing recovery points	52
Viewing a specific recovery point	53
Mounting a recovery point for a Windows machine	54
Dismounting select recovery points	54
Dismounting all recovery points	55
Mounting a recovery point for a Linux machine	55
Removing recovery points	55
Deleting an orphaned recovery point chain	56
Forcing a snapshot	56
Restoring data	57
About exporting protected data from Windows machines to virtual machines	57
Managing exports	58
Exporting backup information from your Windows machine to a virtual machine	59
Exporting Windows data using ESXi export	59
Exporting Windows data using VMware workstation export	61
Exporting Windows data using Hyper-V export	64
Exporting Windows data using Oracle VirtualBox export	67
Restoring Volumes from a Recovery Point	69
Restoring volumes for a Linux machine using the Command Line	72
Launching Bare Metal Restore for Windows machines	73
Roadmap for performing a Bare Metal Restore for a Windows machine	73
Launching a bare metal restore for a Linux machine	78
Installing the screen utility	79
Creating bootable partitions on a Linux machine	79
Replicating recovery points	81
Replication	81
Roadmap for performing replication	82
Replicating to a self-managed core	82
Replicating to a core managed by a third party	86
Replicating a new agent	86
Replicating agent data on a machine	87
Setting replication priority for an agent	87
Monitoring replication	88
Managing replication settings	89
Removing replication	89
Removing a protected machine from replication on the source Core	90
Removing a protected machine on the target Core	90
Removing a target Core from replication	90
Removing a source Core from replication	90
Recovering replicated data	91
Understanding failover and failback	91
Performing Failover	91
Performing Failback	92
Reporting	94
About reports	94
About the reports toolbar	94
About compliance reports	94
About errors reports	95
About the Core Summary Report	95
Repositories summary	95
Agents summary	96
Generating a report for a Core or agent	96
About the Central Management Console Core reports	97
Generating a report from the Central Management Console	97
Getting help	98
Finding documentation and software updates	98
Documentation	98
Software updates	98
Contacting Dell	98

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A message indicating that the deployment has started appears. You can view the progress in the

Events

tab.

Click

Show details

to view more information about the status of the agent deployment.

Click

Protecting a machine

This topic describes how to start protecting the data on a machine that you specify.

NOTE:

The machine must have the AppAssure Agent software installed in order to be protected.

You can choose to install the AppAssure Agent software prior to this procedure, or you can deploy

the software to the agent as you define protection in the

Connection

dialog box. To install the

AppAssure Agent software during the process of protecting a machine, see

Deploying The Agent

Software When Protecting An Agent

When you add protection, you must specify the name or IP address of the machine to protect and the

volumes on that machine to protect as well as define the protection schedule for each volume.

To protect multiple machines at the same time, see

Protecting Multiple Machines

To protect a machine:

Reboot the machine on which the AppAssure Agent software is installed, if you haven’t already done

so.

From the Core Console on the core machine, click

Protect

→

Protect Machine

on the button bar.

The

Protect Machine Wizard

appears.

On the

Welcome

page, select the appropriate installation options:

•

If you do not need to define a repository or establish encryption, select

Typical

•

If you do not wish to see the

Welcome

page for the

Protect Machine Wizard

in the future, select

the

Skip this Welcome page the next time the wizard opens

option.

Click

On the

Connection

page, enter the information about the machine to which you want to connect as

described in the following table.

Text Box

Description

Host

The host name or IP address of the machine that you want to protect.

Port

The port number on which the AppAssure Core communicates with the agent

on the machine. The default port number is 8006.

Username

The user name used to connect to this machine; for example, administrator.

Password

The password used to connect to this machine.

Click

. If the

Protection

page appears next in the

Protect Machine Wizard

, skip to Step 7.

NOTE:

If the

Install Agent

page appears next in the

Protect Machine Wizard

, this indicates that

the Agent software is not yet on installed on the designated machine. Click

to install the

Agent software. The Agent software must be installed on the machine you want to protect, and

that be restarted, before it can back up to the Core. To have the installer reboot the agent

machine, select the

After installation, restart the machine automatically (recommended)

option before clicking

The host name or IP address you specified in the

Connect

dialog box appears in this text field.

Optionally, enter a new name for the machine to be displayed in the Core Console.