Use cases for the system structure
To create images, the systems involved in the creation process must meet certain requirements. These requirements differ depending on where the data you want to back up is located (on a computer with a supported operating system or on a computer with an unsupported operating system) and where you want to store the created images (server archive vs. external storage medium).
Some use cases and their possible implementation are described below:
Supported operating system, storing images on network drive
Prerequisites:
- Server with octoplant
- Target computer with an upload agent
- Shared network drive
- The user who performs the image creation has all necessary rights on the target computer and on the network drive.
General procedure:
Step 1:
- An agent synchronizes data between the target computer and the server. In this process, Drive Snapshot is transferred to the target computer.
- The agent on the target computer receives the job information from the server.
Step 2:
- The agent establishes a connection to the network drive, with the information from the job.
- The agent starts Drive Snapshot, with the Drive Snapshot options from the job.
- Drive Snapshot creates the image on the network drive.
Step 3:
- Once the image has been successfully created, the LOG file is copied from the agent to the server as a backup. Exact storage location in the server archive: BACKUP folder of the component for which the job was created
- The access to the image is possible via the path stored in the LOG file (using the file manager).
Non-supported operating system, storing images on network drive
Prerequisites:
- Server with octoplant
- Computer with upload agent
- Target computer with the data to be backed up (different from the computer with the upload agent)
- Shared network drive
- PsExec in the server script directory
- The user who performs the image creation has all necessary rights on the target computer and on the network drive.
- The network drive can be accessed from the agent computer and from the target computer.
General procedure:
Step 1:
- The agent synchronizes the data between the agent computer and the server. In this process, Drive Snapshot and PSExec are transferred to the agent computer.
- The agent receives the job information from the server.
Step 2:
- The agent establishes a connection to the network drive, with the information from the job.
- The agent connects to the target computer and copies Drive Snapshot to the target computer.
- The agent starts Drive Snapshot on the target computer with the Drive Snapshot options from the job.
- Drive Snapshot creates the image on the network drive.
Step 3:
- Once the image has been successfully created, the LOG file is copied from the agent to the server as a backup. Exact storage location in the server archive: BACKUP folder of the component for which the job was created
- The access to the image is possible via the path stored in the LOG file (using the file manager).
- The agent deletes Drive Snapshot from the target computer again.
Supported operating system, storing images in the server archive
Prerequisites:
- Server with octoplant
- Target computer with an upload agent
- The user who performs the image creation has all necessary rights on the target computer.
General procedure:
Step 1:
- The agent synchronizes data between the target computer and the server. In this process, Drive Snapshot is transferred to the target computer.
- The agent on the target computer receives the job information from the server.
Step 2:
- The agent starts Drive Snapshot with the Drive Snapshot options from the job.
- Drive Snapshot creates the image on the target computer.
Step 3:
- After successful creation, the image is copied to the server as a backup. Exact storage location in the server archive: BACKUP folder of the component for which the job was created
Non-supported operating system, storing images in the server archive
Prerequisites:
- Server with octoplant
- Computer with an upload agent
- Target computer with the data to be backed up (different from the computer with the upload agent)
- PsExec in the server script directory
- The user who performs the image creation has all necessary rights on the target computer.
General procedure:
Step 1:
- The agent synchronizes data between the agent computer and server. In this process, Drive Snapshot and PSExec are transferred to the agent computer.
- The agent receives the job information from the server.
Step 2:
- The agent connects to the target computer and copies Drive Snapshot to the target system.
- The agent starts Drive Snapshot on the target computer with the Drive Snapshot options from the job.
- Drive Snapshot creates the image on the target system.
Step 3:
- Once the image has been successfully created, the agent copies it to the server as a backup. Exact storage location in the server archive: BACKUP folder of the component for which the job was created
- The agent deletes Drive Snapshot from the target computer again.
