Preparing To Protect Your Servers; Overview; Installing Agents On Clients; Deploying The Agent Software When Protecting An Agent - Dell DL1000 Deployment Manual

Preparing to protect your servers

Overview

To protect your data using DL 1000, you need to add the workstations and servers for protection in the
Core Console; for example, your Exchange server, SQL Server, your Linux server, and so on.
In the Core Console, you can identify the machine on which an Agent is installed and specify which
volumes, for example, a Microsoft Windows Storage Space, to protect. You can define the schedules for
protection, add additional security measures such as encryption, and much more. For more information
on how to access the Core Console to protect workstations and servers, see

Installing agents on clients

Each client that is backed up by the DL 1000 appliance must have the Rapid Recovery agent installed. The
Rapid Recovery Core console enables you to deploy agents to machines. Deploying agents to machines
requires pre-configuring settings to select a single type of agent to push to clients. This method works
well if all clients are running the same operating system. However, if there are different versions of
operating systems, you may find it easier to install the agents on the machines.
You can also deploy the Agent software to the agent machine during the process of protecting a
machine. This option is available for machines that do not already have the Agent software installed. For
more information on deploying the Agent software while protecting a machine, see the Rapid Recovery
on DL Appliance User's Guide at Dell.com/support/home.

Deploying the agent software when protecting an agent

You can download and deploy agents during the process of adding an agent for protection.
NOTE: This procedure is not required if you have already installed the Agent software on a machine
that you want to protect.
If the Agent software is not installed prior to protecting a machine, you will not be able to select
specific volumes for protection as part of this wizard. In this case, by default, all volumes on the
agent machine will be included for protection.
Rapid Recovery supports the protection and recovery of machines configured with EISA partitions.
Support is also extended to Windows 8 and 8.1, and Windows 2012 and 2012 R2 machines that use
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE).
1. Do one of the following:
• If you are starting from the Protect Machine Wizard, proceed to Step 2 . .
• If you are starting from the Rapid Recovery Core Console, from the button bar, click Protect.
Protecting a machine.
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