Setting up Quest® QoreStor™ as an OST Backup

Target for Veritas™ Backup Exec™

Technical White Paper

Quest Engineering
June 2018
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Setting up Quest® QoreStor™ as an OST Backup Target for Veritas™ Backup Exec™
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Contents
Installing and configuring QoreStor ....................................................................................... 5

Creating an OST container for Backup Exec ......................................................................... 6

Installing the Quest OST Plugin............................................................................................. 8

Adding the OST Account to Backup Exec ............................................................................ 10

Adding an OST container to Backup Exec ........................................................................... 12

Setting up the QoreStor system cleaner .............................................................................. 18

Monitoring deduplication, compression and performance .................................................... 20

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 Executive Summary
This white paper provides information about how to set up QoreStor as a backup target for Veritas™ Backup
Exec™. This document is a quick reference guide and does not include all QoreStor deployment best practices.

For additional information, see the QoreStor documentation and other data management application best
practices whitepapers at:

http://support.quest.com/qorestor

For more information about Veritas Backup Exec, refer to the Backup Exec documentation at:

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/BackupExec

NOTE: The QoreStor and Veritas Backup Exec screenshots used in this document might vary slightly
depending on QoreStor version and Backup Exec version you are using.

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Installing and configuring QoreStor

1 Before installing QoreStor, refer to the QoreStor Interoperability Guide to ensure your system(s) meet the
installation requirements.

2 To install QoreStor on your system(s), follow the procedures documented in the QoreStor Installation
Guide.

3 Using a supported web browser (refer to QoreStor Interoperability Guide for a list of supported browsers),
connect to the QoreStor administrative console via https, using the host IP address/FQDN and port 5233
(https://<hostname:5233>).

4 Log in with the username admin and password St0r@ge! (The “0” in the password is the numeral zero).

5 By default, QoreStor has a user with OST Role named backup_user and password St0r@ge!. Refer to the
QoreStor User Guide for information on changing user accounts.

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Creating an OST container for Backup

Exec
In this document, we will show how to create an OST container for Backup Exec using the QoreStor
administrative console. If you wish to use QoreStor CLI please refer to the QoreStor CLI Reference Guide.

1 Open the QoreStor administrative Console.

2 Select Storage Groups in the top navigation area of the QoreStor administrative console ❶.

3 Click on the drop-down arrow for the Storage Group you will be adding a container to ❷ .

4 Click on Add container ❸ .

NOTE: Refer to the QoreStor User Guide for information on creating a new Storage
Group

5 Enter a Name for the container ❹.

6 Select OST from the Protocol drop down menu ❺ .

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7 Choose between Unlimited or Quota (specify Quota Capacity [GB]) for LSU Capacity ❻.

8 Click the Add button ❼.

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Installing the Quest OST Plugin

In order to enable Backup Exec to use QoreStor, the Quest OST Plugin must be installed in the Backup Exec
Media Server(s).

Before proceeding, refer to the QoreStor Interoperability Guide for a list of supported Operating Systems, Backup
Exec and OST Plugin versions. Once identified, download the OST Plugin at https://support.quest.com/qorestor/.

Installing the OST Plugin on Windows

1 Download the Quest OST Plugin onto the server you wish to install

2 Execute the OST Plugin .msi installer and follow the screen prompts

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Installing the OST Plugin on Linux
1 Download the Quest OST Plugin onto the server you wish to install

2 Extract the .bin file from the .gz package and give it executable permission

3 Execute the .bin file adding –install switch

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Adding the OST Account to Backup

Exec
This section provides information needed to add an existing or newly created OST account to Backup Exec.
By default, QoreStor has a user with OST Role named backup_user and password “St0r@ge!”. Refer to the
QoreStor User Guide for information on changing user accounts.

1 Open the Backup Exec administration console

2 Click the Backup Exec button ❶, then Configuration and Settings ❷, Logon Accounts ❸ and Manage

Logon Accounts ❹

3 Click Add on the newly opened pop-up window

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4 Enter the User Name, Password and Confirm password. Click OK to add the account

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Adding an OST container to Backup

Exec
This section provides information needed to add an existing or newly created OST container to Backup Exec.

1 Open the Backup Exec administration console

2 Open the Storage tab ❶, click Configure Storage ❷, select Network storage ❸ and click Next ❹

3 Select OpenStorage and click Next

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4 Enter the desired Name and Description (optional) for the configured OST device and click Next

5 Select QUEST as the provider and click Next

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6 Enter the QoreStor Server name (IP/hostname or FQDN) and select the OST account as the Logon
account. Click Next

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7 Chose the OST container to be added from the list and click Next.

8 Enter the number of how many Concurrent operations can run and click Next.

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 NOTE: When choosing the number of concurrent operations, both the QoreStor and the
hosting Hardware limits need to be taken into consideration to prevent job failures should
those limits be exceeded. Refer to the QoreStor Interoperability Guide for more
information.

9 Review the Storage configuration summary and click Finish

10 Click Yes to restart the Backup Exec Services and bring the newly added device online

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 Appendix A

Setting up the QoreStor system

cleaner
Performing scheduled disk space reclamation operations is needed as a method for recovering disk space from
system containers in which files were deleted as a result of deduplication. Ideally, the QoreStor cleaner should
complete a full cycle at least once a week. This will be accomplished in most cases by the predefined QoreStor
cleaner schedule. The cleaner also runs during idle time.

In case you wish to change the predefined cleaner schedule times, perform the following steps:

1. Open the QoreStor administrative console

2. Select System Configuration in the top navigation area ❶.

3. Click Edit Schedule ❷.

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1 Define the schedule and click Submit ❹.

If necessary, you can also perform a full cleaner cycle manually using either the QoreStor Administrative
Console or QoreStor CLI.

Figure 1: QoreStor Administrative Console

Figure 2: QoreStor CLI

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Monitoring deduplication, compression

and performance
After backup jobs have run, QoreStor tracks capacity, storage savings, and throughput. To view the historical
representation of these values is shown in the dashboard of the QoreStor administrative console. This
information is valuable in understanding the benefits of QoreStor.

NOTE: Deduplication ratios increase over time. It is not uncommon to see a 2-4x reduction (25-50% total savings) on
the initial backup. As additional full backup jobs are completed, the ratios will increase. Backup jobs with a 12-week
retention will average a 15x ratio in most cases.

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