Specifying configuration properties for SaaS applications

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

 Important Specifying configuration properties is not supported for all types of SaaS applications. Additionally, the list of available configuration properties varies depending on the type of your SaaS application.

Configuration properties

Property	Description
Exclude Resources	Enables you to specify one or more resources to be excluded from the backup.
Options	Enables you to use configuration properties 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.

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.

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

Considerations

Only if you use a data mover configuration with the SaaS instance. Assigning a data mover configuration to SaaS applications by specifying the configuration properties takes precedence over enabling the Use data mover configuration switch as part of adding a SaaS instance.
If you do not specify the Data Movers configuration property, the default properties 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 to R‑Cloud as described in Adding compute.
Only if you plan to store the protected SaaS application data on an Azure target. For security purposes, it is recommended that you specify SaaS application configuration properties 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 specifying SaaS application configuration properties 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 specify configuration properties.
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 configuration property specific to my SaaS application or resource.	On the Options tab, specify which of the available configuration properties you want to use and provide the required information.
Assign a data mover configuration to the selected SaaS applications.	On the Data Movers tab, from the Data Movers drop-down menu, select the preferred data mover configuration. By clicking Add New, you are automatically redirected to the dialog box that enables you to add a data mover configuration, if not already added. For details, see Creating a 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 configuration property specific to my SaaS application or resource.

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

Assign a data mover configuration to the selected SaaS applications.

On the Data Movers tab, from the Data Movers drop-down menu, select the preferred data mover configuration.

By clicking Add Add New, you are automatically redirected to the dialog box that enables you to add a data mover configuration, if not already added. For details, see Creating a data mover configuration.

Click Save.