How to run Uranium Backup as a Windows service
Uranium can be installed and run as a Windows service.
What is the service and what are the benefits:
Technically, this feature consists of an additional program (the service
precisely) named "UraniumService.exe". This program can be installed between
Windows services through
a provided control panel in the program's general options. However, the installation
and modification of the service properties can be also made manually in Windows
service management panel or with
system scripts.
The key feature of a service is that it is a program loaded into
memory without any user having to log in to the machine. This means that the service is a background program that is always active, and that allows to schedule in a very efficient and reliable manner
the backup tasks.
The Uranium Backup service, once installed and launched, will handle all backup
schedulings, and will run all backup procedures using specific program
instances.
The main advantages of this are the possibility to run
the backup even if no user is connected to the system (which is quite common in
server systems), but also the ability to run parallel backups, or backups scheduled in overlapping
times.
Service installation, configuration and start-up:
Requirement: on Windows Vista, Windows 2008
Server and Windows 7, in order to handle the service it is necessary to run Uranium
as Administrator.
Uranium provides a simple control panel to manage the service. We can
see it in the image below:
We have four buttons, respectively to install, start, stop and uninstall the service.
In the picture we see the first two buttons disabled because the service is installed
and started.
When we install the service the program will ask us to choose the account to initiate
the service itself, using the following window:
By default a service runs as the Local System account, but you can set the
execution as a specific user. This choice can be made according to user permissions
you want to give to the service and depending on what type of backup you want to
make.
If the backup must be made in a network domain, if you use the Local System account,
you have to set the authentication data for network destinations. This can be
done globally using the button you can see in the service managmente panel, or it
can be
done for each network destination in the various Backup Sets.
If instead we choose to start the service as a specific account, we can set
one who has access rights to the network, like for example a domain
administrator.
When we specify the authentication data (for network paths or to start the service),
the user name should be typed in the form DomainName\Username (if the computer is
in a domain), or we may need to use the form .\Username or ComputerName\Username (if the computer is not
in a domain).
Backup scheduling:
When the service is installed and started, it handles all of the Backup
Set schedulings. The scheduling can be set normally, with the advantage that
the service will be able to run multiple Backup Sets at the same time, overlapping
schedulings and therefore parallel backup operations.
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Backup service: run the program as service. Planning multiple backups through the
service in background. Uranium Backup in Windows services. Parallel backups.