Using This Guide

This guide is for everyone who deploys, operates, or oversees Cygna Forest Recovery. You don't need to read it from start to finish. Find your role below and start with the chapters listed for it.

Where to start

If you Start with
Plan and install the deployment Planning Your Deployment, Installing and Setting Up, and Manager Day-One Checklist. Read How Backup Works to understand what you are setting up.
Manage backups (Backup Operator role) How Backup Works, Backup Tasks, Using the Console, and Coverage and Readiness.
Plan and run recoveries (Restore Operator role) How Recovery Works, Choosing a Recovery Approach, Recovery Requirements, and Recovery Procedures. Read these before you need them.
Administer the installation (System Admin role) Administration, Protecting the Manager, and Troubleshooting.
Review activity and readiness (Viewer / Auditor role) Auditing Operator Activity, Protection Summary, Dashboard, and Coverage and Readiness.

The roles named above are the operator roles in Cygna Forest Recovery. Each role sees only the console screens it can use. For details, see Managing Operators and Roles.

If you work from the command line, see Command-Line Reference. For definitions of the terms used in this guide, see the Glossary.

How the guide is organized

  • Introduction—What Cygna Forest Recovery is, its components, and the directories it supports.
  • Planning and installation—Requirements, topology decisions, and the steps to install and set up each component.
  • Concepts—How backup and recovery work, and why. Read these to make decisions.
  • Console—What each console screen shows and what you can do from it.
  • Tasks and procedures—Numbered steps for backup tasks and for each kind of recovery.
  • Administration and Manager protection—Operators and roles, settings, agents, logs, and how to protect and recover the Manager itself.
  • Troubleshooting and reference—Error messages, preflight checks, alerts, and the cdr command-line tool.

Conventions

Convention Meaning
Bold A label in the console, such as a screen, button, field, or tab name. For example, select Back up now.
Active Directory > Domain Controllers A path through the console navigation or a series of menus.
Monospace Commands, file and folder paths, setting keys, installer properties, and values that you enter.
<value> A placeholder in a command or path. Replace it, including the angle brackets, with your own value.
Select Click or tap a control in the console.
Enter Type a value into a field or at a command prompt.

Notes contain information that helps you avoid a problem or understand a consequence. A note that starts with Important describes something that can affect your ability to recover, and you should read it before you continue.

Command examples use sample values such as corp.example.com and 10.0.0.10. Replace them with the values for your environment.