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+ | The Enterprise File Fabric Archive/ | ||
+ | ===== 1 Add a Archive / Backup File Store ===== | ||
- | \\ \\ The Storage Made Easy Cloud-to-Cloud backup enables the backup of a public or private cloud to another public or private cloud.\\ \\ You can use it to backup Google Docs files to Amazon S3 for example or to backup a local WebDav Server to RackSpace etc. The combinations are endless.\\ \\ The aim is to ensure high availability of data with two different data stores be they public or private.\\ \\ For the purpose of this overview we'll assume we wish to backup Google Docs to the DropBox Cloud | ||
- | ===== 1 Add a Backup Cloud ===== | ||
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+ | 1. Log into an account either on [[https:// | ||
- | {{:/ | + | 2. Navigate to the Admin Account DashBoard |
- | 1. Log into the [[https:// | + | 3. Choose to add a new Backup provider and choose |
- | ===== 2 Request | + | ===== 2 Request |
- | {{:/ | + | {{ :dropbox_request.png?600 |}} |
+ | ===== 3 Authorise Dropbox access ===== | ||
- | ===== 3 Authorise DropBox access ===== | ||
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+ | The Dropbox OAuth screen will appear and you can sign into Dropbox and choose to authorise access | ||
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+ | ===== 4 Backup Initialized ===== | ||
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+ | A resync (meta sync) of the primary file store (Google Drive in this example) will now commence and as files are validated or found this will precipitate each file being added to the newly nominated Dropbox Backup that has just been added. | ||
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+ | ===== 5 Backup/ | ||
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- | The DropBox OAuth screen | + | When the Archive completes the primary file store (Google Drive) files have been backed up / archived to the secondary data store (Dropbox).\\ \\ Any subsequent files that are uploaded directly to Google Drive using the File Fabric will also be instantly archived/ |
+ | ===== 6 Additional Backup/ | ||
- | ===== 4 Backupinitialised ===== | + | There are a number of settings that can be applied as to the behaviour of the backup/ |
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+ | These options are self-explanatory. | ||
- | {{:/cloudbackup: | + | Also note that at any time an Admin can force a verification of the integrity between a primary file store and the backup/archive data store by choosing to ' |
- | The sync will now be kicked off an you will see the settings screen of the backup provider you just added. | + | ===== 7 Reports ===== |
+ | Status reports of the backup/ | ||
- | ===== 5 Backup Completed ===== | + | {{ : |
+ | ===== 8 Ancillary behaviours | ||
+ | Once a backup/ | ||
- | {{:/cloudbackup: | + | If the primary file store is down when trying to access a file the backup/archive file store will be used to retrieve the file providing business continuity in the event of an outage. |
- | The Google Docs files are backed up to DropBox after the backup completes.\\ \\ After the initial sync any news files that are uploaded direct to Google Docs via SME are also backed up to DropBox. Any files uploaded direct to Google Docs are uploaded to DropBox when SME discovers them either through you accessing your account if real-time update is enabled or by forcing a refresh between the SME meta-data and Google Docs. You are also able to control whether files are deleted on the backup if they are deleted on the primary from the settings page in step \\ \\ Although we used Google Docs to DropBox as an example this is equally applicable to any of the [[https:// | + | ===== 9 Summary ===== |
+ | Although we used Google Drive to Dropbox as an example this is equally applicable to any of the [[https:// | ||