Installing agents

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Connect to the vault and the Securepoint Unified Backup Portal

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Preliminary note

• The connection to the Cloud Portal and the vault (data vault) is established via agents.

The setup program connects the agents to the portal and the vault.
All further configuration is done in the cloud. The agents do not require their own GUI.

• Download of the required agent in the download section of the Dashboard

Functional operation

Depending on the operating system and the desired functions, a different version of the agent must be used. How the agents work:

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Agents can either be installed

• Client-based - directly in the system to be backed up
  or
• Host-based - on a hypervisor

Operating systems and backup options

Backup Agenten

System	Supported version	Backup options
Windows Agent	Windows Server 2008 – 2019 Windows 7 - 10	File-based backup Image-based backup BMR backups MS-SQL and MS-Exchange including transaction protocols Oracle databases Backup of network shares
Hyper-V Agent	Windows Server 2008 - 2019	Full VMs (BMR) Granular restoration Backup and truncation of transaction protocols for Exchange and MS-SQL
Linux Agent	Ubuntu Debian CentOS Red Hat SuSE Supported file systems are: ext2, ext3, ext4, XFS, GFS, ReiserFS, JFS. (BTRFS is not supported!)	BMR backup File-based backup Oracle databases Backup of network shares
	vSphere 6.0 – vSphere 6.7 (Update 3b) vSAN 6.5 – vSAN 6.7 (Update 3b) ESXi 6.0 – ESXi (Update 3b)	Full VMs (BMR) Backup and truncation of transaction protocols for Exchange and MS-SQL.

Overview of functions

Function	Agent-based Windows	Agent-based Linux	Host-based VMware2	Hostbasiert Hyper-V
BMR (backup of the entire host)	1	( )
Restore in Infrastructure as a Service Cloud		-	-	-
Backup network shares			-	-
Script-based control				-
Backup of physical server			-	-
Backup of virtual server
VSS support		-
Backup of files and folders			-	-
Restoring files and folders
Backup sensors (Servereye, PRTG, Nagios,..)
Extension through plug-ins	3	4	-	-
Initial backup to HDD/FTP				-
Backup Retry function				-
Protocol shortening (MS Exchange and MS SQL)		-
Agent Upgrade Center		-	-	-
Free backup clients

1. No BMR backup of Hyper-V hosts
2. Requires vCenter
3. Exchange, SQL, Image, Oracle
4. Oracle only

Installation guide

Client-based

• Installation guide for Windows computer

• Installation guide for Linux computer

Host-based

• Installation guide for HyperV environments