NAS Backup
Before creating a NAS backup job, you need to first add the NAS shares to Vinchin Backup & Recovery and get the NAS shares licensed for backup. Please refer to NAS Shares for more information.
Create NAS Backup Job
To create a NAS backup job, please go to Backup > Files > NAS page, then follow the steps below.
Step 1: Backup Source
First you need to select a target NAS share from the Select NAS Share column for this backup job. Each NAS backup job can only have one NAS share selected.
After selecting the target NAS share, please select the files or folders you want to back up from the Backup Source column. In the Select files/folders column, the files/folders could be selected by use the checkbox.
After selecting the files/folders, you can click More to set wildcard filter rules for the NAS backup job, this is optional.
In the Wildcard Filter dropdown list, you can choose None, Exclusion and Inclusion.
None: backup all the selected files/folders which you've selected and do not use any filters. Exclusion: backup all files except the ones to be excluded by exclusion filters. Inclusion: only backup the files which will be matched by the inclusion filters.
In the Filter field, type a filter rule e.g.: *.docx and click Add to add it; multiple filters can be applied to a single backup job; * can match 0, 1 or multiple characters, ? can only match 1 character.
After setting the wildcard policy, please click on Next to continue.
Step 2: Backup Destination
In the Target Storage dropdown list, the storages which belong to the selected backup node can be selected.
In the Target Node dropdown list, you can select a backup node on which you want the backup data to be processed and stored.
When done selecting the backup storage, please click on Next button to continue.
Step 3: Backup Strategy
General Strategy
General strategy includes Schedule, Policy, Data Storage Policy and Retention Policy.
In the Schedule field, you can configure the time schedule of the backup job, you can configure the job as a Backup as Scheduled job, Once-off Backup job or a Manually Initiate job.
For a once-off backup job, the job will only run for once, and only full backup will be performed. You only have to appoint a time of when to start the backup job in the Start Time field.
For a backup as scheduled job, you can schedule Full Backup, Incremental Backup and Differential Backup.
Here we take full with incremental backups as an example.
Please set the backup mode and backup schedule as per your actual demands, then please click on Next to continue.
Throttling Policy settings are optional, only if the backup jobs will bring network or I/O overload to your production environment, you can configure the throttling policy accordingly otherwise leave it unconfigured.
There are 2 options in Data Storage Policy section, Data Compression and Data Encryption. By enabling these 2 options, the backup data will be compressed and encrypted before saving into backup storage.
For the retention policy of the NAS backup, there are 2 retention mode, retain the NAS backups according to Number of Restore Points or Number of Days.
For the retention mode Number of Restore Points, Vinchin Backup Server will save the specified number of restore points. If you choose to retain the backups by number of restore points, the number will be counted by full restore points.
For retention mode Number of Days, Vinchin Backup Server will save the restore points within the specified number of days.
When the retention policy is triggered, the outdated restore points will be purged to comply with the retention policy.
Transmission Strategy
Allows you to set the serach threads and transfer threads.
Security Strategy
Allows you to configure the WORM and integrity check strategies.
Advanced Strategy
Advanced strategy includes Permission, Exception Handling, Retry Strategy and Overload Protection.
Permissions When enabled this, file permissions such as read and whrite will be backed up.
Exception Handling If the Skip File Alert option is enabled, users can set an alert threshold, when the Number of Skipped Files or Percentage of Skipped File reaches the specified value, it will generate an alert.
Retry strategy Includes Operation Exception Retry and Job Retry. After enabling operation exception retry, if an operation excepetion occurs during job execution, it will re-execute according to the configured retry strategy. After enabling job retry, if an objects exception occurs during job execution, it will re-execute according to the configured retry strategy.
Overload Protection Allows you to set whether enabled ignore node resource limits or not.
Step 4: Review & Confirm
After completing the above-mentioned settings, you are able to review and confirm the NAS backup job settings in one screen.
You can give this job a customized name then click on Submit to finish creating this NAS backup job.