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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: Back up file data with MABS |
| 3 | +description: You can back up file data on server and client computers with MABS. |
| 4 | +ms.topic: conceptual |
| 5 | +ms.date: 08/19/2021 |
| 6 | +--- |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +# Back up file data with MABS |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +You can use Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS) to back up file data on server and client computers. |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +## Before you start |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +1. **Deploy MABS** - Verify that MABS is installed and deployed correctly. We recommend that you review the following articles: |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | + - [Install MABS](backup-azure-microsoft-azure-backup.md) |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | + - [What can MABS back up?](backup-mabs-protection-matrix.md) |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | + - [What's new in MABS?](backup-mabs-whats-new-mabs.md) |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | + - [MABS release notes](backup-mabs-release-notes-v3.md) |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +1. **Set up storage** - You can store backed up data on disk, on tape, and in the cloud with Azure. Read more in [Prepare data storage](/system-center/dpm/plan-long-and-short-term-data-storage?view=sc-dpm-2019&preserve-view=trus). |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +1. **Set up the MABS protection agent** - You'll need to install the MABS protection agent on every machine you want to back up. Read [Deploy the MABS protection agent](backup-azure-microsoft-azure-backup.md). |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +## Back up file data |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +After you have your MABS infrastructure set up you can enable protection machines that have file data you want to back up. |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +1. To create a protection group, click **Protection** > **Actions** > **Create Protection Group** to open the **Create New Protection Group** wizard in the MABS console. |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +1. In **Select Protection Group Type** select **Servers**. |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +1. In **Select Group Members** you'll add the machines for which you want to back up file data to the protection group. On those machines you select the locations, shares, and folders you want to protect. [Deploy protection groups](backup-support-matrix-mabs-dpm.md). You can select different types of folders (such as Desktop) or different file or the entire volume. You can also exclude specific locations from protection. |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | + >[!NOTE] |
| 39 | + > If you are protecting the volume on which the deduplication is enabled, ensure that the [Data Deduplication](/windows-server/storage/data-deduplication/install-enable) server role is installed on the MABS server. See the [support matrix](backup-support-matrix-mabs-dpm.md#deduplicated-volumes-support) for detailed information on deduplication. |
| 40 | +
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| 41 | +1. In **Select data protection method** specify how you want to handle short and long-term backup. Short-term backup is always to disk first, with the option of backing up from the disk to the Azure cloud with Azure backup (for short or long-term). As an alternative to long-term backup to the cloud you can also configure long-term back up to a standalone tape device or tape library connected to the MABS server. |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +1. In **Select short-term goals** specify how you want to back up to short-term storage on disk. In **Retention range** you specify how long you want to keep the data on disk. In **Synchronization frequency** you specify how often you want to run an incremental backup to disk. If you don't want to set a backup interval, you can check **Just before a recovery point** so that MABS will run an express full backup just before each recovery point is scheduled. |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +1. If you want to store data on tape for long-term storage in **Specify long-term goals** indicate how long you want to keep tape data (1-99 years). In Frequency of backup specify how often backups to tape should run. The frequency is based on the retention range you've specified: |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | + - When the retention range is 1-99 years, you can select backups to occur daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly. |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | + - When the retention range is 1-11 months, you can select backups to occur daily, weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | + - When the retention range is 1-4 weeks, you can select backups to occur daily or weekly. |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | + On a stand-alone tape drive, for a single protection group, MABS uses the same tape for daily backups until there is insufficient space on the tape. You can also co-locate data from different protection groups on tape. |
| 54 | + |
| 55 | + On the **Select Tape and Library Details** page specify the tape/library to use, and whether data should be compressed and encrypted on tape. |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +1. In the **Review disk allocation** page review the storage pool disk space allocated for the protection group. |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | + **Total Data size** is the size of the data you want to back up, and **Disk space to be provisioned on MABS** is the space that MABS recommends for the protection group. MABS chooses the ideal backup volume, based on the settings. However, you can edit the backup volume choices in the **Disk allocation details**. For the workloads, select the preferred storage in the dropdown menu. Your edits change the values for **Total Storage** and **Free Storage** in the **Available Disk Storage** pane. Underprovisioned space is the amount of storage MABS suggests you add to the volume, to continue with backups smoothly in the future. |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +1. In **Choose replica creation method** select how you want to handle the initial full data replication. If you select to replicate over the network we recommended you choose an off-peak time. For large amounts of data or less than optimal network conditions, consider replicating the data offline using removable media. |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | +1. In **Choose consistency check options**, select how you want to automate consistency checks. You can enable a check to run only when replica data becomes inconsistent, or according to a schedule. If you don't want to configure automatic consistency checking, you can run a manual check at any time by right-clicking the protection group in the **Protection** area of the MABS console, and selecting **Perform Consistency Check**. |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | +1. If you've selected to back up to the cloud with Azure Backup, on the **Specify online protection data** page make sure the workloads you want to back up to Azure are selected. |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | +1. In **Specify online backup schedule** specify how often incremental backups to Azure should occur. You can schedule backups to run every day/week/month/year and the time/date at which they should run. Backups can occur up to twice a day. Each time a backup runs a data recovery point is created in Azure from the copy of the backed-up data stored on the MABS disk. |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +1. In **Specify online retention policy** you can specify how the recovery points created from the daily/weekly/monthly/yearly backups are retained in Azure. |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | +1. In **Choose online replication** specify how the initial full replication of data will occur. You can replicate over the network, or do an offline backup (offline seeding). Offline backup uses the Azure Import feature. [Read more](/azure/backup/backup-azure-backup-import-export). |
| 72 | + |
| 73 | +1. On the **Summary** page review your settings. After you click **Create Group** initial replication of the data occurs. When it finishes the protection group status will show as **OK** on the **Status** page. Backup then takes place in line with the protection group settings. |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | +## Recover backed up file data |
| 76 | + |
| 77 | +You recover data using the Recovery Wizard. When you double-click a protected volume on the **Protected data** pane in the wizard, MABS displays the data that belongs to that volume in the results pane. You can filter protected server names alphabetically by clicking **Filter**. After selecting a data source to recover in the tree view, you can select a specific recovery point by clicking the bold dates in the calendar. When you click **Recover** in the **Actions** pane, MABS starts the recovery job. |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | +## Recover data |
| 80 | +Recover data from the MABS console as follows: |
| 81 | + |
| 82 | +1. In MABS console click **Recovery** on the navigation bar. and browse for the data you want to recover. In the results pane, select the data. |
| 83 | + |
| 84 | +1. Available recovery points are indicated in bold on the calendar in the recovery points section. Select the bold date for the recovery point you want to recover. |
| 85 | + |
| 86 | +1. In the **Recoverable item** pane, click to select the recoverable item you want to recover. |
| 87 | + |
| 88 | +1. In the **Actions** pane, click **Recover** to open the Recovery Wizard. |
| 89 | + |
| 90 | +1. You can recover data as follows: |
| 91 | + |
| 92 | + 1. **Recover to the original location**. Note that this doesn't work if the client computer is connected over VPN. In this case use an alternate location and then copy data from that location. |
| 93 | + |
| 94 | + 1. **Recover to an alternate location**. |
| 95 | + |
| 96 | + 1. **Copy to tape**. This option copies the volume that contains the selected data to a tape in a MABS library. You can also choose to compress or encrypt the data on tape. |
| 97 | + |
| 98 | +1. Specify your recovery options: |
| 99 | + |
| 100 | + 1. **Existing version recovery behavior**. Select **Create copy**, **Skip**, or **Overwrite**. This option is enabled only when you're recovering to the original location. |
| 101 | + |
| 102 | + 1. **Restore security**. Select **Apply settings of the destination computer** or **Apply the security settings of the recovery point version**. |
| 103 | + |
| 104 | + 1. **Network bandwidth usage throttling**. Click **Modify** to enable network bandwidth usage throttling. |
| 105 | + |
| 106 | + 1. **Enable SAN based recovery using hardware snapshots**. Select this option to use SAN-based hardware snapshots for quicker recovery. |
| 107 | + |
| 108 | + This option is valid only when you have a SAN where hardware snapshot functionality is enabled, the SAN has the capability to create a clone and to split a clone to make it writable, and the protected computer and the MABS server are connected to the same SAN. |
| 109 | + |
| 110 | + 1. **Notification**. Click **Send an e-mail when the recovery completes**, and specify the recipients who will receive the notification. Separate the e-mail addresses with commas. |
| 111 | + |
| 112 | +1. Click **Next** after you have made your selections for the preceding options. |
| 113 | + |
| 114 | +1. Review your recovery settings, and click **Recover**. Note that any synchronization job for the selected recovery item will be canceled while the recovery is in progress. |
| 115 | + |
| 116 | +When using Modern Backup Storage (MBS), File Server end-user recovery (EUR) is not supported. File Server EUR has a dependency on the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), which Modern Backup Storage does not use. If end-user recovery is enabled, then recover data as follows: |
| 117 | + |
| 118 | +1. Navigate to the protected data file. Right-click the file name > **Properties**. |
| 119 | + |
| 120 | +1. In **Properties** > **Previous Versions** select the version that you want to recover. |
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