How To: Backup to Sentinel CIFS Mounted Disk Storage

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WD Sentinel DX4000 CIFS Mounted Disk Storage to Linux

The Western Digital Sentinel DX4000 uses Microsoft’s Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials for its operating system and can be used as a CIFS mount for the Arkeia Servers Disk Storage area.

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Remote Desktop

 

Start a "Remote Desktop" session from your Windows Workstation or "rdesktop" from your Linux machine
Enter the IP address of your WD Sentinel NAS
Click "Connect"

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Login to the Sentinel as "Administrator"

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Click "Yes" to accept the Security Certificate

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Share The Storage Drive

Start Menu > Computer

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* Right Click on the D Drive
* Share With > Advanced Sharing

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Click "Advanced Sharing"

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Check the "Share This Folder" box and ensure your share name

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Click "Permissions"

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Click "Add"

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Type in "Administrator" and Click "Check Names"

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Select "Administrator" and Click "OK"

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Select "Administrator" and give him Full Control

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Click "Apply
Click "OK"

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Click "Apply"
Click "OK"

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Verify that D: is shared

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Mount Share to Linux Backup Server

Login to your Linux backup server and become “root” user.

IMPORTANT NOTE!

If you do not have forward and reverse Name Resolution on your network, then you may want to use IP Addresses instead of hostnames. The WD Sentinel is set to DHCP by default so if the IP address changes, you’ll need to update your DNS entries and redo the mount point. An alternate solution is to set your Sentinel to a Static IP address.

 

How to set a Static IP Address on WD Sentinel Server DX4000

 

Create the mount point

mkdir /media/wdsentinel/

Mount the CIFS share to your backup server

mount -t cifs //wdsentinel/d /media/wdsentinel -o username=Administrator,password=xxxxxxxx

Verify the Storage is mounted

mount

/dev/sda7 on / type ext4 (rw)
/dev/sda6 on /home type ext4 (rw)
/dev/sda8 on /opt type xxt4 (rw)
/dev/sda5 on /boot type ext4 (rw)
/dev/sdb on /vol0 type xfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime,inode64,nobarrier,logbufs=8)
//wdsentinel/d on /media/wdsentinel type cifs (rw,mand)

Create the Disk Storage (Where To Backup)

  • Verify the"D:/ Drive Capacity" on your WD Sentinel before creating the Arkeia Disk Storage

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  • Verify that you have enough Disk Storage License for all existing and the WD Sentinel Disk Storage Combined

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Backup > Where To Backup > Disk Storage

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Click "Add A Disk Storage

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* Enter a name for your Disk Storage
* Adjust the Disk Storage Capacity as needed for your environment
* Add the path to your CIFS Share

IMPORTANT! When creating Disk Storage using Network Mounts, never create the Disk Storage on the mount itself.

EXAMPLE:
     
    /media/wdsentinel/cifsbackups OK
    /media/wdsentinel/ NOT OK!

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Click "Next"

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Choose "Add DiskStorage to a new Drivepack"

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Click "Finish"

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View the created Disk Storage in the Arkeia WebUI

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Verify the Arkeia Disk Storage files are created on the share

ls -la /media/wdsentinel/cifsbackups/

total 9
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Feb 13 13:48 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Feb 13 13:39 ..
-rwxrwSrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 13 13:39 .ARK_NOBACKUP
-rwxrwSrwx 1 root root 377 Feb 13 13:39 .ARK_VTL.lst
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 13 13:41 dedupe