Creating policies on Core
1. Configure snapshots for the relevant LUNs to be backed up. Remember that additional configuration may be required in secondary data centers if failover and replication are part of a Core High Availability architecture where you also want snapshots to occur.
2. Configure the backup proxy.
Use the Create New Backup Policy Wizard to specify the backup policy’s scope, name, schedule, and proxy server.
The Core uses the WinRM protocol to communicate with Windows proxy servers used for backup. It is therefore important to ensure that the proxy is able to support WinRM.
If you want to use the server-level backups feature to protect Windows servers using LUNs from an Edge, it is important that the servers are running version 4.6 or later of the RAgent. RAgent is included in the Unified Installer for Riverbed Plugins package.
To ensure that any new or modified policy is working as expected, see the Reports > Data Protection: Backups page to view the policy details and verify that backups have succeeded. These reports also help in troubleshooting any errors. For an overview of the backup status for all protected Edges, view the Backups pane in the Core Dashboard.