Manage Existing Protection

Edit protection settings, change the policy, and start, stop, & pause protection.

Once you have applied protection to the objects in your sources, Cohesity DataProtect as a Service makes it easy to make changes to that protection quickly. You can:

  • Edit additional settings like End Date, Exclusions, Alerts, and more.

  • Apply a different policy.

  • Start an on-demand protection run, pause and resume it, or even remove protection.

Edit Protection Settings

To edit protection settings:

  1. In DataProtect as a Service, navigate to Sources.

  2. Click into the Source name.

  3. Select Show All > Protected and use the other filters, search box, and views at the top to narrow your search.

  4. Click the Actions menu () next to the object and select Edit Protection to open the protection settings for that object.

Apply a New Protection Policy

To change the Policy, click the drop-down and select a different policy. To help you choose, each policy in the list shows the Backup frequency and the Retain period for each backup.

If you don't have a policy that meets your needs, scroll to the bottom of the list and click Create Policy to create your own policy.

Start, Stop, or Remove Protection

Click the Actions menu () next to the object, Cohesity DataProtect as a Service presents buttons for the actions that are possible for those objects.

With the protected objects selected, you can click:

  • Recover to recover the object or file.

  • Unprotect to remove protection from the object.

    If a protected object is deleted from the source, you can search the object using Global Search and unprotect it.

  • Run Now to start an on-demand protection run immediately.

Edit Additional Protection Settings

Under Settings, you can change the protection Start Time (and select the Time Zone).

Click the drop-down next to Additional Settings to change more options. See Additional Protection Settings for details.

Additional Settings

Advance Settings Description
Start Time

Available only if the selected policy is set to Backup Daily. Indicates what time the protection run should start. Enter the Start Time and select AM or PM. The default time zone is the browser's time zone. You can change the time zone of the protection run by selecting a different time zone here.
End Date

If you need to end protection on a specific date, enable this to select the date.
Quiet Time

(Available only if the selected policy has at least one Quiet Time)

When enabled, all the protection runs that are currently executing will cancel when the Quiet Time period starts. By default, this setting is disabled, meaning that after a protection run starts, it continues to execute even when a Quiet Time period starts. However, new protection runs will not start during a Quiet Time.
Pre & Post Scripts Edit this option to run scripts on the protected server before and/or after a protection run. If the protection run is protecting physical servers from different hosts, then the pre and post scripts are executed for each physical server.
Crash Consistent Backups

Crash Consistent Backups: Enable Crash Consistent backups if you want the guest operating systems of all the protected VMs to be quiesced before snapshots of these VMs are created. Quiescing of VMs prior to capturing snapshots ensures the integrity of the data saved in the snapshots.

Continue with non consistent backup in case of failure: Enable this options to allow the backup to continue, if a crash consistent backup with VSS cannot be initiated.

This option is applicable only for VSS copy backup.
SLA

The service-level agreement (SLA) defines how long the administrator expects a protection run to take. Enter:

  • Full. The number of minutes you expect a full protection run, which captures all the blocks in an object, to take.

  • Incremental. The number of minutes you expect an incremental protection run, which captures only the changed blocks in an object, to take.