Complete the File Server Guided Setup for Lustre

The file server guided setup guides you through creating a server plan and adding the Lustre file server.

Go to the File Server Guided Setup

From the navigation pane, go to Guided setup.

The Welcome page appears.
On the Protect tab, click the File server tile.

The File server setup page appears.

If you already completed the guided setup, the File servers page appears.

Create a Server Plan That You Can Use for Lustre

If you already have a server plan that you can use, you can skip this step.

On the Create server backup plan page, click Create a new plan, and then specify the settings for a server plan that you can use for the Lustre file server.

Settings	Steps
Plan name	Enter a name for the server plan. Click Next.
Backup destinations	Click Add. The Add backup destination dialog box appears. In Name, enter a name for the backup destination. From the Storage list, select the storage to use for the backups. If you selected storage that uses Distributed Storages, the Optimize for instant clone toggle key appears. By default, this setting is turned on to allow the associated Distributed Storage to optimize backups for clones, using Copy Data Management. To turn off the setting, move the Optimize for instant clone toggle key to the left. The setting does not apply to Hyperscale solutions that use Distributed Storage. For Retention period, enter the amount of time to retain the backups. To specify additional backups, such as weekly full backups, move the Extended retention rules toggle key to the right, and then add rules. Click Save.
RPO	For Backup, specify how often and when to run incremental backups. To run full backups, move the Add full backup toggle key to the right, and then specify how often and when to run full backups. For Backup window, specify when you want incremental backups to run. For Full backup window, specify when you want full backups to run.
Folders to back up	To back up only some content, in Content to back up, enter the content to back up. By default, all content is backed up. To exclude folders or files from the backup, in Exclude - files/folders/patterns, enter the content to exclude. Specify whether to include the system state in backups: To include the system state in all backups, select the Back up system state check box. To include the system state only in full backups, select the Back up system state check box and the Only with full backup check box. To use VSS (Volume Snapshot Service, also called Shadow Copy) to back up the system state, select the Use VSS for system state check box.
Snapshot options	Specify how to retain snapshots: To specify a number of jobs to retain on a snapshot copy, select Number of snap recovery points, and then enter the number of jobs to retain. To specify a retention period, select Retention period, and then enter the amount of time to retain the jobs. If you don't want to create backup copies, move the Enable backup copy toggle key to the left to turn it off. For Backup copy frequency, enter how often to run backup copy jobs.
Database options	For Log backup RPO, enter how often to run log backups. To use the disk cache of the logs to the MediaAgent for backups, do the following: Move the Use disk cache for log backups toggle key to the right. For Commit every, enter how often to commit the logs to the CommServe computer. Disk caching of database logs applies to the following agents: Informix, Microsoft SQL Server on Windows, Oracle, Oracle RAC, and SAP HANA.
Override restrictions	Leave the Allow plan to be overridden check box cleared.

Add the Lustre File Server

When you add a file server, a backup set, and a default subclient are automatically created.

On the Add file servers page, click Add server.
In the Name box, enter a name for the file server.
In the Host name box, enter the host name.
In the User name and Password boxes, enter the credentials for the file server.
For OS Type, select UNIX and Linux.
From the Select package(s) list, click File system, and then click OK.

Some packages require additional information. For example, if you select DB2, you must enter a DB2 log path.
To reboot the servers in the server group after the installation, move the Reboot if required toggle key to the right.
From the Plan list, select the server plan to use for the file server.

The server plan defines the storage for the backup data, the RPO (recovery point objective), and the data retention period.
Click Edit to modify the backup content.

By default, the entire Lustre file system is backed up.
Click Save.