Creating a System State Backup

Applicable Products

These instructions apply to the following products:

• Barracuda Intronis Backup - MSP

Configuring a System State Backup

Before creating a System State backup set, make sure that you are familiar with the backup type restrictions and recommendations.

1. From the ECHOplatform ribbon bar, select the Manage tab.
   
2. Expand the client account and click on the computer ID.
3. Select the Backup tab.
   
4. Click the Create icon next to the System State backup type.
   
5. The Select screen appears.
   
6. Provide a name for this backup set. To do this:
   
   • Click the pencil at the top of the screen in order to be able to edit the text.
   • Enter the new name.
   • To save, click the green check mark.
   • If you need to cancel, click the red X.
7. Choose the backup destination.
   • Local Only: for this to be active the Local Vault must be enabled and a local subscription is required.
   • Online and Local: for this to be active the Local Vault must be enabled.
   • Online Only: for this to be active there cannot be a Local Vault.
8. Click Next, or select the Schedule tab on the top navigation bar.
9. The Schedule screen allows you to determine how often the backup runs.
   
   
   • With the Windows utilities installed, all you need to do is set the schedule in the software and the number of weeks of backup you would like to keep. The software will call these utilities to create the backup file on the system before we back it up to our servers. In accordance with Microsoft best practices, System State is scheduled by default to run once weekly. However, you can run the System State Backup every day if you desire, this will create more usage to be backed up.
   • You can setup multiple schedules, if needed. On the right of the screen an overview of created schedules is displayed.
10. Click Next, or select Retention from the top navigation bar.
    
    
    • The default revision rule is to keep 4 weeks and no fewer than 4 versions.
    • To see an explanation of revision rules, please look at Advanced Archiving Rules in the Manage Usage chapter.
11. Click Next, or select the Advanced tab on the top navigation bar.
    
12. The Advanced page allows you to set a few options..  
    • The Temporary Folder: this is where we place files as we are backing up, this is where we encrypt, package and compress before uploading.
    • Choose a "scratch drive" to temporarily house the system state files during the backup. This needs to be a non-critical drive to store the system state data during the backup.  The backup set will not be able to be created without selecting a scratch drive.
13. Click Next or select the Summary tab on the top navigation bar.
14. The Summary tab provides an overview of what you have selected for your backup set.
    
15. Click Create Backup Set,
16. The backup is displayed on the Backup Selections page.