SonicWALL 6 manual About Application Backup and Restore, Example Creating a Backup Policy

Overview of the SonicWALL CDP Agent

The same data can be scheduled for backup with multiple policies using different schedules, allowing you to maintain near-continuous revisions along with daily, weekly, monthly, or custom scheduled versions. The number of revisions to keep is controlled by the settings in each policy.

About Application Backup and Restore

Client applications such as Outlook and Outlook Express are supported for backup and restore, as well as a number of server applications. Supported server applications include Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, Sharepoint, and Active Directory. Active Directory is backed up and restored as an element of System State, to ensure that all relevant system files are included for a consistent environment.

When configuring an Application object as part of a backup policy, available applications on the agent are automatically discovered by SonicWALL CDP, and their friendly names are presented for selection in a drop-down list. Figure 10 illustrates these application features.

Figure 10 Adding an Application

When restoring an application, SonicWALL CDP automatically uses the proper restore method for the application type. For example, restore on reboot for Active Directory, or stop/restore/start for SQL Server. Restoring is interactive and walks you through the process.

Example: Creating a Backup Policy

Let’s say that the Finance Department at SonicWALL needs to backup its data on three different schedules.

Data to back up:

•Administrator requires all users to back up data in the C:\A123 folder

•Users also need to back up all their SQL queries

Schedules:

•Every three days, once an hour during business hours

•Every Sunday for weekly backups

•On the 1st & 15th of each month for regulatory purposes

SonicWALL CDP 6.0 Agent User’s Guide

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