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1. In the Armor Management Portal (AMP), in the left-side navigation, click Infrastructure.

2. Click Advanced Backup.

3. In VM Protection, hover over the ( + ) icon.

4. Click the Add VM Protection icon.

5. For Select A Location, select the data center where the desired virtual machine lives.

   • This must be the same data center that you selected in Step 1: Create a policy.

6. In Select Your VM(S), mark the desired virtual machine (or machines).

   • This table will only list virtual machines that do not have an assigned policy. To assign a different policy to a virtual machine, see Replace an existing policy for a virtual machine.

   • A newly created virtual machine may not appear immediately in this list. You may need to wait an hour before a newly created virtual machine appears.

7. In Select A Policy, select the newly created policy.

   • You can only select a policy that was created for the same location as the selected virtual machine.

   • You can only select a virtual machine-specific policy; you cannot select a fileset-specific policy.

8. Create Configure Backup.

   • This action will populate the table in the VM Protection section of the Advanced Backup screen.

After you begin the restoration process, you can still cancel the restoration.

Before the snapshot reaches the Pending Customer Commit status, you can cancel a restoration. (You can use the Review Logs section to view the status of the restoration.)

1. In the Armor Management Portal, in the left-side navigation, click Infrastructure.

2. Click Advanced Backup.

3. In VM Protection, locate and hover over the desired virtual machine.

4. Click the vertical ellipses.

5. Click Cancel VM restore.

6. Click Continue.

You must create a policy to configure often to take a backup and how long to keep a backup.

1. In the Armor Management Portal (AMP), in the left-side navigation, click Infrastructure.

2. Click Advanced Backup.

3. Click Policies.

4. Click plus ( + ) icon.

5. In Policy Name, enter a descriptive name.

6. In Location, select the data center where the virtual machine is located (and where the backup will take place).

7. In Type, select Fileset Protection.

8. Next to Backup Schedule, under Take Snapshots (Frequency), enter how often Armor should take a snapshot. And then directly across, under Keep Snapshots (Retention), enter how long Armor should keep this snapshot.
   

   • You must enter your time configurations in the same row.

     • For example, to take a snapshot every week and to keep that snapshot for six months, under Take Snapshots (Frequency), in Every (Days), enter 7, and then directly across, under Keep Snapshots (Retention), in For (Days), enter 182.

   • You can create a maximum of four Frequency and Retention settings.

   • The minimum retention period is 3 days.

   • Additionally, you must create a policy that takes place once per day. You must enter a time in hours.

     • For example, to take a snapshot every two hours and to keep that snapshot for three days, under Take Snapshots (Frequency), in Every (Hours), enter 2, and then directly across, under Keep Snapshots (Retention), in For (Days), enter 3.

9. (Optional) To enable off-site replication, for Replication, mark On.

   • Select a Location.

   • Configure a time for retention.

   • This time cannot be larger than the time configured for local retention.

   • This feature stores copies of your snapshots in another physical location, which you can retrieve in case the copies in your local machine are not accessible or usable.

   • There is a cost associated with this feature.

10. (Optional) In Snapshot Window, configure the time frame for when your scheduled snapshots should take place. By default, Rubrik will determine when the scheduled snapshots will take place; however, with this option, you have the ability to configure a specific time frame for when the scheduled snapshots will take place. This option can be useful if you want to perform snapshots during a period of low traffic.

11. Under First Full Window, configure the time frame for when the first full snapshot should take place.

    • Armor recommends that you configure a time when your environment experiences low traffic, low transaction volume, or less frequent changes.

    • By default, times are based on your web browser's configured time zone.

    • After the first full snapshot is complete, the configuration you created under Take Snapshots (Frequency) and Take Snapshots Between will be implemented.

      • For example, under First full Window, if you configure an initial time frame of Sunday 12 AM to Sunday 6 AM, then your first full snapshot will take place at any time during this time frame. After the first full snapshot is complete, then the time frame configured in Take Snapshots (Frequency) and Take Snapshots Between will begin. If the first snapshot completes at Sunday at 5 AM, and your policy includes a snapshot every 4 hours, then the next snapshot will take place at 9 AM, and then again at 1 PM.

12. Click Create Policy.

In this step, you will specify the specific folders or files to include (and exclude) from a snapshot.

You can use an asterisk to replace a single folder name in a file path. For example, you can enter C:\*\Microsoft Office, which is the same as C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office.

You can enter two asterisks ( ** ) to replace multiple folder names in a file path.

1. In the Armor Management Portal (AMP), in the left-side navigation, click Infrastructure.

2. Click Advanced Backup.

3. Click Filesets.

4. Click the plus ( + ) icon.

5. In Fileset Name, enter a descriptive name.

6. In Location, select the data center where your virtual machine lives.

   • You must use the same data center that you configured in Step 1: Create a policy.

7. In OS Family, select the type of virtual machine.

8. Under Rules:

   • In Include, enter the files to include in the backup.

   • In Exclude, enter the files to exclude from the backup.

   • In Do Not Exclude, enter the files to overwrite the information in the Exclude field.

     • For example, you can configure the backup to exclude every image file; however, you can specify a specific image file to be included in the backup.

9. Click Create Fileset.

1. In the Armor Management Portal (AMP), in the left-side navigation, click Infrastructure.

2. Click Advanced Backup.

3. Click Fileset Protection.

4. Hover over the ( + ) icon, and then click the Download Rubrik Agent icon.

5. Select the data center where the virtual machine lives.

   • You must use the same data center that you configured in Step 1: Create a policy.

6. Select the operating system for the desired virtual machine.

7. Download and install the installer package onto your server.

Invoke-WebRequest https://agent.armor.com/_files/backup/DFW01/RubrikBackupService.zip -OutFile 
.\RubrikBackupService.zip
Add-Type -assembly "System.IO.Compression.FileSystem"
[IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory((Get-ChildItem 
.\RubrikBackupService.zip).FullName, (Get-Item -Path ".\").Fullname + 
"\RubrikBackupService")
.\RubrikBackupService\RubrikBackupService.msi /qn

sudo wget https://agent.armor.com/_files/backup/DFW01/rubrik-agent.x86_64.rpm

sudo rpm -i rubrik-agent.x86_64.rpm

sudo wget https://agent.armor.com/_files/backup/DFW01/rubrik-agent.x86_64.deb

sudo dpkg -i rubrik-agent.x86_64.deb

sudo wget https://agent.armor.com/_files/backup/DFW01/rubrik-agent.x86_64.rpm

sudo rpm -i rubrik-agent.x86_64.rpm

1. In the Armor Management Portal (AMP), in the left-side navigation, click Infrastructure.

2. Click Advanced Backup.

3. Click Fileset Protection.

4. Hover over the plus ( + ) icon, and then click the Add Fileset Protection icon.

5. Select the desired virtual machine, and then click Configure Backup.

   • A newly created virtual machine may not appear immediately in this list. You may need to wait an hour before a newly created virtual machine appears.

6. Select the desired fileset and policy, and then click Add.

Before you update an existing policy, consider that:

• You cannot update the location of an existing policy.

• If you update the Snapshot Window for an existing policy and there is a virtual machine already assigned to the policy, then the virtual machine will not experience another first full snapshot.

• Existing snapshots for the virtual machine will remain stored with Armor.

• If you decrease the Retention rate, then older snapshots will be removed in accordance with the updated policy. For example, if you lower the retention rate from 14 days to 10 days, then backups older than 10 days will be removed.

Before you begin, consider that:

• When you replace a policy, the virtual machine will not experience another first full snapshot.

• Existing snapshots for the virtual machine will remain stored with Armor.

• If you replace a policy that has a different Retention rate, then older snapshots will be removed in accordance with the updated policy. For example, if the newly assigned policy has a retention rate of 10 days whereas the previously assigned policy had a retention rate of 14 days, then backups older than 10 days will be removed.

Troubleshooting

If you cannot access or update the Advanced Backup screen, consider that:

• You do not have permissions to view this add-on product.

  • You must have the following permissions to fully use the Advanced Backup add-on product. Contact your account administrator to enable these permissions. (If you are an account administrator, then to update your permissions, see Roles and Permissions).

    • Read Advanced Backup Plans

    • Read Advanced Backup

    • Read Advanced Backup Vms

    • Write Advanced Backup

    • Create Advanced Backup Policy

    • Read Advanced Backup Policy

    • Read Advanced Backup Snapshots

    • Refresh Advanced Backup Snapshots

    • Remove Advanced Backup

    • Request Advanced Backup Restore

    • Update Advanced Backup Policy

    • Commit Advanced Backup Restore

    • Refresh Advanced Backup Snaphots

    • Restore from Backup

For Vormetric users:

As a Vormetric user, how should I configure my files for Advanced Backup?

You must update the encryption policy to allow the Rubrik agent to access your files and directories.

You can give Rubrik read-only permissions or read and decrypt permissions.

If you allow read-only permissions, then the files will be backed up in an encrypted format; however, the Vormetric DSM, agent, and keys will need to be available in order to access the recovered, encrypted data. As a result, these files will have a higher change rate.

If you give Rubrik read and decrypt permissions, then the unencrypted files will be encrypted when they are transmitted to the backup appliance and platform. During this time, the content can potentially be recovered by Armor in an unencrypted format, which may not meet your desired security practices or compliance requirements.

During a file backup, if some files are missing, will I see an error message?

The Rubrik agent silently skips any files that it cannot access and continues with the backup. As a result, Rubrik does not generate any kind of error message.

To correct, this, please update the file system permissions, or the encryption policy, so that the Rubrik agent can access these files.