System Initialization#
Overview#
This document provides a quick start guide for users to help them quickly understand the basic operations and functions of ADPS.
Initialize the system#
When you first access the ADPS console, the license request page appears. After importing the license, log in to ADPS and follow the guides to initialize the system. The guides provide a series of initialization operations, such as configuring license, registering storage servers, creating users and user groups, and setting up storage pools.
To access the ADPS console, enter the IP or domain name of the backup server in the browser address bar to access the login page. ADPS supports multiple browsers, including:
Edge 80 above
Firefox 60 above
Chrome 60 above
Note
Only the system administrator (admin) can access the initialization guides; other users have no permissions to access it.
Apply for a license#
Select Aurreum Aurreum Data Protection Suite to activate ADPS. Click Next.
Select the license edition: Trial, Official, Lease, and Channel. Click Next. The Options page appears.
Trial: You can try the software for 30 days. To continue the use, purchase the Official edition.
Official: You can use the software permanently and enjoy free upgrade service during the software maintenance period.
Lease: You can use the software during the lease period and upgrade it to the official edition.
Channel: For small and medium companies. You can use the software permanently and enjoy free upgrade service during the software maintenance period
Set the license options. Click Next. The Modules page appears.
(1) Options for the Trial license:
Trial license renewal: By requesting the trial license renewal when the license expires or will expire in 7 days, you can keep using ADPS. When the option is enabled, the setting page shows expired resources. You need to bind the expired resource to the license that requires a renewal. The license renewal won’t be valid if you remove the default loaded expired resource and replace it by adding a module.
Trial days: The trial period is 30 days by default. After the expiration, you can’t continue using the software. To continue the use, apply for the trial license renewal or purchase the officially licensed editions.
Number of each module: The number of licenses required for each resource module. 5 is selected by default. The option only appears when the Trial license renewal option is disabled.
Custom: The default number is 5, but you can increase or decrease the number as needed.
Unactivated: ADPS will automatically list all associated items.
(2) Options for the Official license:
Licensing mode: You can choose to license by module or by storage space.
If you choose By module, re-request the license after the module has been used before you may add another module.
If you choose By storage space, the use of modules will not be restricted. When the storage space is used up, you need to reapply for storage space before the Operator can continue to back up data.
Maintenance time: You can choose the maintenance time including six months, one year, two years, three years and five years.
Duration: The default duration is 12 months, but you can increase or decrease the duration as needed.
Support: Select All Time (7 x 24) or Work Time (5 x 8).
Number of each module: The number of licenses required for each resource module. 5 is selected by default.
Custom: The default number is 5, but you can increase or decrease the number as needed.
Unactivated: ADPS will automatically list all associated items.
Storage space: The activated storage space for users. When the activated storage space is used up, the Operator cannot back up data to the storage server. To expand the storage space, apply for a new license. Storage space unit includes GiB, TiB, and PiB.
Disk storage: Used for local storage pool, standard storage pool, de-duplication storage pool, file synthetic pool, real-time backup pool, block device de-duplication pool, database synthetic pool, block device copy pool, and LAN-free pool.
Object storage: Used for object storage service pool.
Tape storage: Used for tape storage pool.
CD storage: Used for CD-ROM tower storage pool.
(3) Options for the Lease license:
Licensing mode: You can choose to license by module or by storage space.
If you choose By module, re-request the license after the module has been used before you may add another module.
If you choose By storage space, the use of modules will not be restricted. When the storage space is used up, you need to reapply for storage space before the Operator can continue to back up data.
Lease duration: The lease term of the authorized use.
Number of each module: The number of licenses required for each resource module. 5 is selected by default.
Custom: The default number is 5, but you can increase or decrease the number as needed.
Unactivated: ADPS will automatically list all associated items.
Storage space: The activated storage space for users. When the activated storage space is used up, the Operator cannot back up data to the storage server. To expand the storage space, apply for a new license. Storage space unit includes GiB, TiB, and PiB.
Disk storage: Used for local storage pool, standard storage pool, de-duplication storage pool, file synthetic pool, real-time backup pool, block device de-duplication pool, database synthetic pool, block device copy pool, and LAN-Free pool.
Object storage: Used for object storage service pool.
Tape storage: Used for tape storage pool.
CD storage: Used for CD-ROM tower storage pool.
(4) Options for the Channel license:
Maintenance time: You can choose the maintenance time including six months, one year, two years, three years and five years.
Duration: The default duration is 12 months, but you can increase or decrease the duration as needed.
Support: Select All Time (7 x 24) or Work Time (5 x 8).
Number of each module: The number of licenses required for each resource module. 5 is selected by default.
Custom: The default number is 5, but you can increase or decrease the number as needed.
Unactivated: ADPS will automatically list all associated items.
Storage space: The activated storage space for users. When the activated storage space is used up, the Operator cannot back up data to the storage server. To expand the storage space, apply for a new license. Storage space unit includes GiB, TiB, and PiB.
Disk storage: Used for local storage pool, standard storage pool, de-duplication storage pool, file synthetic pool, real-time backup pool, block device de-duplication pool, database synthetic pool, block device copy pool, and LAN-Free pool.
On the Modules page, select the modules, the number of modules, and the OS architectures and resource types based on the agent. Click Next. The Advanced page appears.
On the Advanced page, choose the relevant options to enable the corresponding advanced features. If your edition is a Trial license, apply again when the advanced features expire. No application of the advanced features for the officially licensed editions is required once the advanced features are enabled.
Note
Multi-tenant advanced feature: ADPS establishes an account mechanism for enterprises and organizations. Each account is a tenant, and a private backup and restore system is provided for each tenant in a shared backup environment. You can use the Multi-Tenant option to provide individual service for each tenant, and configure independent data storage space to achieve data isolation via the separate management mechanism.
Import a license#
Click Import license to upload the acquired license. When the upload is successful, the license page will show details about the uploaded license.
Note
The license is for one-time use only, and it is required to correspond to the last generated license request file. If you upload the license generated from the old request file, the license-related operation will fail.
Log in to the system#
Enter Username and Password, both of which are “admin” by default. Click Login.
Note
If a user repeatedly enters the error password, the browser IP address will be added to the Login IP Address Blocklist. The user must apply to the system administrator for a release from the Login IP Address Blocklist.
The Modify password window displays. The first login involves a mandatory password change. Click Submit.
Successfully logged into ADPS and accessed the Guides page for initialization configuration.
Initialization guides#
This section helps you to use the initialization guides for a quick configuration.
Configurations include:
Add user
Register storage server
Add storage pool
Activate resource
Backup catalog
Note
Only the system administrator can access the initialization guides; other users has no permission to access it.
Add user#
Some functions including backup, restore, and disaster recovery are executed by the operator, hence a user with the operator role must be created. Users with the administrative privilege, or other users with system monitor, monitor, and pool replication user roles can be created as needed.
To create a user with the operator role, do the following:
On the Add user page, enter the required fields: Username, Password, and Confirm password. The fields for the Organization, Department, Nickname, Email, and Telephone are optional. You can choose whether to enable the Maximum password age option.
In the Roles section, select Operator. From the User group list, the Create user group with same name is selected by default. Click Submit.
After the user role is successfully added, click Next. The Register storage server page appears.
Note
To add more users, add them on the User page. For details, see User management in Aurreum Data Protection Suite Administrator’s Guide.
Register storage server#
After the storage server is installed and registered, you can add a storage pool, set up network, and execute other operations.
On the Register storage server page, select a storage server, click Register. A pop-up windows appears. Click OK.
After the registration, a pop-up window appears confirming the setup of management network, which is used for the control and management between backup server and storage server. Click OK. An Add network window appears.
The Network option selects New by default. Set the Name of the network, select Management Network as Purposes, set the Address, SSL, and Port of the network between the storage server and the backup server.
Note
To add more networks, add them on the Storage > Network page. For details, see Network in Aurreum Data Protection Suite Administrator’s Guide.
The storage server is successfully registered and the status is “Online”. Click Next. The Add storage pool page.
Note
To add more storage servers, add them on the Storage > Storage Server page. For details, see Storage management in Aurreum Data Protection Suite Administrator’s Guide. See Storage Server in this guide.
Add storage pool#
After you register the storage server, it is necessary to create storage pools and assign them to users for storing data.
Taking the standard storage pool as an example, to create a storage pool, do the following:
On Add storage pool page, from the Type list, select Standard storage pool. Select a storage server. Enable Multi-storage as needed. Click Next.
Multi-storage: The storage pool space can be extended by adding storage devices.
Allocate storage space: If the Multi-storage option is enabled, it is required to allocate storage space to the storage pool. Specify the maximum storage capacity that backup sets can utilize. Once the allocated storage space is fully utilized, further backups to that storage will not be possible.
Configure the backup set retention policy and encryption-related options. Click Next.
Backup set retention policy:
Backup set retention policy# Retention policy
Parameter
Description
Note
Time policy
Backup sets retention days
Under the condition that each resource has a complete and available backup set, backup sets in the storage pool that exceed the retention period will be marked as expired.
The default value is 30 days. 0 means do not use the Backup set retention days rule to delete backup sets.Space policy
Backup sets retention quota
If the total size of backup sets in the storage pool exceeds the configured retention quota, the earliest full backup sets, as well as the dependent incremental and log backup sets created upon them, will be marked as expired together.
10 GiB is retained by default. 0 means do not use the Backup set retention quota rule to delete backup sets.Time and space policy
Backup sets retention days, backup sets retention quota
If you have set the retention days and retention quota, the backup sets will be marked as expired as long as either set condition is met.
The Backup sets retention policy displayed on the Storage pool page depends on the values entered: If both fields are 0, it shows as “Unlimited”; If either the retention days or retention quota parameter is set to 0, the retention policy will display the non-zero value; If values are entered in both fields, it shows as “XX days or XX GiB/PiB” entered.
Advanced options：
Data storage encryption: If the option is enabled, select Encryption algorithm, Cipher length, and Encryption mode.
Specify UUID: You can specify the UUID for the pool you add. This option is for rebuilding the storage pool in case of accidental deletion.
Note
To add more storage pools, add them on the Storage > Storage pool page. For details, see Storage management in Aurreum Data Protection Suite Administrator’s Guide.
After the options are configured successfully, click Next. The Activate resource page appears.
Activate resource#
After the agent is installed and registered, activate the license and authorize users before the authorized users can perform the backup and restore.
On the Activate resource page, click Register next to the host to register the host.
In the pop-up Activate window, click Submit to activate resources.
Click Authorize to authorize users under the user group before they have permissions to operate the resources on this agent.
Note
To register and activate more resources and hosts, register and license in batches on the Resources page. For details, see Batch register/Batch activate/Batch authorize in Aurreum Data Protection Suite Administrator’s Guide.
After the authorization is successful, click Next. The Backup catalog page appears.
Backup catalog#
The backup server can be self-protected by backing up catalogs. With backed up catalogs, it can be used with storage pool replication for scenarios like backup server on-premises or offsite disaster recovery and migration. You can use the disaster recovery to reduce the loss when users misoperate, the backup server is abnormal or reinstalled.
On the Backup catalog page, set the Name of the catalog backup job, Storage pool, Retention days, Start time and Execution interval.
Click Next. The system initialization is complete.