Configuring SaaS application backup options

Configuring SaaS application data backup options

Before you start protecting SaaS applications, you can adjust SaaS application protection to the needs of your data protection environment by configuring backup options in R‑Cloud. You can configure backup options for a single SaaS application or for multiple SaaS applications at the same time.

 Important Configuring backup options is not supported for all types of SaaS applications. Additionally, the list of available backup options varies depending on the type of your SaaS application.

Backup options

Backup option	Description
Exclude Resources	Enables you to specify one or more resources to be excluded from the backup.
Options	Enables you to use backup options specific to each SaaS application or SaaS application resource (for example, if you are protecting Google Cloud SQL, you can set the offload option that enables R‑Cloud to delegate the export operation to a separate data mover).
Data Movers	Enables you to assign a data mover configuration to specify the location (compute and the networking details) where data movers will be created. For instructions, see Procedure

Prerequisites

For SaaS applications in Google Cloud: Specifically for the HMSA, R‑Cloud requires additional permissions. For details, see Google Cloud permissions required by R‑Cloud.
The data mover configuration must ensure that the data mover will have access to the SaaS applications that you want to protect and to the targets that store the protected data.

 Tip You can check under which subnet the SaaS applications and the targets are accessible in your cloud provider management console.

Considerations

If you assign a data mover configuration to a SaaS application that already inherits a data mover configuration from the related SaaS instance, the manually assigned data mover configuration will be used.
If you do not configure the Data Movers backup option, the default configurations are:
- For the SaaS applications that do not run natively in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud and whose R-Cloud module does not require using compute: The HYCU Managed data mover configuration is preselected, which means that the data movers will be created in the HYCU managed cloud accounts.
- For all other SaaS applications: The Automatic data mover configuration is preselected, which means that the data movers will be created in the original SaaS instance location or in the compute that you added as a separate part of your data protection infrastructure.
Only if you plan to store the protected SaaS application data on an Azure target. For security purposes, it is recommended that you configure SaaS application backup options so that R‑Cloud creates the data mover in the Azure resource group to keep the protected data in the same Azure environment during the backup.

Recommendation

If you plan to use targets for storing the protected data, optimize the egress data costs by configuring SaaS application backup options so that the data mover uses the same region as the target.

 Note R‑Cloud performs automatic synchronization of SaaS applications at periodic intervals. However, you can at any time update the list of SaaS applications also manually by clicking Synchronize Refresh.

Procedure

In the SaaS panel, select one or more SaaS applications for which you want to configure backup options.
Click Configuration. The SaaS Configuration dialog box opens.

Depending on what you want to do, perform the required action:

I want to...	Instructions
Exclude resources from the backup.	On the Exclude Resources tab, select the resources that you want to exclude from the backup.
Use a backup option specific to my SaaS application or resource.	On the Options tab, specify which of the available backup options you want to use and provide the required information.
Assign a data mover configuration to the selected SaaS applications.	On the Data Movers tab, use the Data Movers drop-down menu to do one of the following: By clicking Add New, you are automatically redirected to the dialog box that enables you to add a new data mover configuration. For details, see Creating a data mover configuration. Select an existing data mover configuration.

I want to...

Instructions

Exclude resources from the backup.

On the Exclude Resources tab, select the resources that you want to exclude from the backup.

Use a backup option specific to my SaaS application or resource.

On the Options tab, specify which of the available backup options you want to use and provide the required information.

Assign a data mover configuration to the selected SaaS applications.

On the Data Movers tab, use the Data Movers drop-down menu to do one of the following:

By clicking Add New, you are automatically redirected to the dialog box that enables you to add a new data mover configuration. For details, see Creating a data mover configuration.
Select an existing data mover configuration.

Click Save.