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Table of Contents Before You Begin ........................................................................................................................ xv Documentation .............................................................................................................................. xv Printable documentation ...........................................................................................................................................xv Release notes ..........................................................................................................................................................xvi Online Help...............................................................................................................................................................xvi Windows ............................................................................................................................................................xvi Non-Windows ....................................................................................................................................................xvi Screen Shots............................................................................................................................................................xvi Customer Support .........................................................................................................................xvi Chapter 1 - About Yosemite Backup............................................................................................ 1 Backup basics ................................................................................................................................. 1 Typical backup and recovery operations ................................................................................................................... 1 Backup environment .................................................................................................................................................. 2 Backup devices.................................................................................................................................................... 2 Storage management catalog ............................................................................................................................. 3 Backup management program ............................................................................................................................ 4 Managing the Storage Management Catalog .................................................................................. 4 Objects................................................................................................................................................................. 4 Properties ............................................................................................................................................................ 4 Yosemite Backup management domains............................................................................................................ 5 Yosemite Backup management domains and security ....................................................................................... 6 Creating and running jobs ................................................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 2 - Yosemite Backup Workplace .................................................................................... 9 Starting Yosemite Backup ............................................................................................................... 9 Logon Window............................................................................................................................... 10 Logging on the first time........................................................................................................................................... 10 Grace logons ..................................................................................................................................................... 11 Selecting a Yosemite Backup management domain ............................................................................................... 11 User name and password ........................................................................................................................................ 12 Changing your password ......................................................................................................................................... 12 Logging out .............................................................................................................................................................. 13 Logging out and running scheduled jobs........................................................................................................... 13 Main Yosemite Backup Window .................................................................................................... 14 Menu bar............................................................................................................................................................ 14 Desk bar ............................................................................................................................................................ 15 Toolbar............................................................................................................................................................... 16 Task and information panes .............................................................................................................................. 17 Detail viewing area ............................................................................................................................................ 17 Status bar .......................................................................................................................................................... 18 Customizing the main Yosemite Backup window .......................................................................... 19 Creating a custom desk bar ..................................................................................................................................... 19 Changing the icon associated with an object........................................................................................................... 20 Adding custom descriptions to objects..................................................................................................................... 20 Customizing profiles................................................................................................................................................. 20 Working with Objects in the Main Yosemite Backup Window ........................................................ 21 Arranging objects ..................................................................................................................................................... 21 Keyboard shortcuts .................................................................................................................................................. 21 Shortcut menus ........................................................................................................................................................ 22 Find button ............................................................................................................................................................... 22 iii iv Yosemite Backup ® User's Guide and Technical Reference Property pages .............................................................................................................................. 22 Opening property pages........................................................................................................................................... 23 Reports .......................................................................................................................................... 24 Types of reports ....................................................................................................................................................... 24 Printing reports ......................................................................................................................................................... 24 Additional reporting capabilities ............................................................................................................................... 25 Saving reports .......................................................................................................................................................... 25 Working with Yosemite Backup wizards ........................................................................................ 26 Available wizards ..................................................................................................................................................... 27 Backup job wizards............................................................................................................................................ 27 Restore job wizards ........................................................................................................................................... 27 Verify job wizards............................................................................................................................................... 27 Media job wizards .............................................................................................................................................. 28 Virtual library wizards ........................................................................................................................................ 29 Disaster recovery wizards ................................................................................................................................. 29 Custom wizards........................................................................................................................................................ 29 Viewing optional features............................................................................................................... 29 Chapter 3 - Creating Jobs with Yosemite Backup .................................................................... 31 Overview........................................................................................................................................ 31 Backup jobs............................................... ...