Physical Server

To backup physical servers, the Active Backup for Business Agent is required on the target physical servers. To learn more about the agent, please refer to the article: Active Backup for Business Agent.

To add a device:

The connection can only be made through the agent. To add a new device to the list, please download the agent first. You can either go to Physical Server > Add device and download the 32-bit or 64-bit agent installer, or go to Download Center to download the right installer for the device.

To create a backup task:

Once the device has been connected to the server, a backup task of the connected server should have been created according to the matched template. It also supports creating more than one backup tasks to each device. To create a new task of a specific device: Go to Physical Server, you can either start from the device view, select the target device ,and then click Create to enter the task creation wizard, or go to Task List > Create, and decide which device you wish to protect later in the task creation wizard.

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Template is a feature of Active Backup for Business that allows admin to design backup task details in advance, and assign the backup task template to specific accounts or groups of users. For more information, please refer to this paragraph.

To create a template:

To avoid gap between deployment and protection, a default template set to protect physical servers will be on the list by default and cannot be removed. You can always edit the default template.

Go to Settings > TemplateCreate. During the template creation flow, you can decide the backup type, backup schedule, compression, and encryption settings as well as the version retention policy. The restore permission on physical server backup is always adjustable in Active Backup for Business. While admin (user) and administrators (group) by default have the access to the backed up versions of the device, admins can assign other users through task creation and task editing to have the restore privilege.

To edit one or more backup tasks:

It supports both editing tasks individaully and in batch. Other than backup destination, most of the settings can be modified. However, in batch edit, the task name as well as the destination cannot be changed.

To avoid mistakenly change the settings that varied across different tasks, the settings are set to remain as they are by default. Tick the checkbox of the section that you wish to change when batch editing is required.

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If you tick the unchecked the box before clicking Apply, the setting of the section would remain the same in every selected task.

To delete one or more backup tasks:

Go to Task List to select the task, and then click Delete. After confirming the action, the selected task will be removed while the data will remain in the backed up destination.

The device would still remain connected to the server even when no task attached to it. This device can always be found on the Device List, and you can create a task for the device at any time.

To enable the CBT function:

To streamline the backup process, Changed Block Tracking (CBT) technology is adopted when backing up personal computers by default. To ensure the service is working, please make sure the VSS service on each protected device has been turned on, as the CBT technology we adopted in Active Backup for Business leverages this service on Microsoft Windows to identify the changed block while avoid performance interference.

The CBT technology allows each device backup only the changed block from the second backup, and therefore saves the bandwidth resource and accelerate the backup speed.

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Restore Physical Server

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Backup tasks of physical server can only be restored by admin, administrators group, and the assigned account. This setting is always adjustable on Active Backup for Business.