How to run Uranium as native NT service
Starting from version 7, Uranium can be run as a native NT service.
What is the service and what are the benefits:
From a purely technical, this feature consists of an additional program (the service
precisely) called "UraniumService.exe." This program can be installed between the
services of NT-based operating systems (Windows NT, 2000, XP,
2003, VISTA, 2008) through
a special control panel available in Uranium general options. However, the installation
and modification of the properties of the service can also be made manually or with
system scripts.
The key feature that distinguishes a service is to be a program that is loaded into
memory without any user having to log in to the machine. This means quite simply
that the service is a background program that is always active, and that therefore
allows to schedule in a very efficient and reliable manner activities as may be
that of backup.
The Uranium Backup service, once installed and launched, will assume control of
all activities of scheduling backups, and will execute all backup procedures through
the use of Uranium.
The main advantages of this type of architecture are the possibility to perform
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, scheduled in overlapping
times.
In conclusion, we can certainly say that the availability of a native NT service
makes Uranium product of an higher level, thanks to this "enterprise" feature of
fundamental importance for server systems and for the management of solid and reliable
backup architectures.
Installation, start-up and configuration of the service:
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 all service operations. 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 through the Local System account, but you can set the
execution through 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 within a network domain, and using the Local System account,
you must set the authentication for the network destinations. This can be done in
a comprehensive manner using the button that we see in the picture, or it must be
done for each network destination in the various Backup Sets.
If instead we choose to start the service through a specific account, we can set
one who has access rights to the network domain, but in this case the execution
of backup through the service will not be visible to the user eventually logged
into the system.
When we specify the authentication data for the network 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 (if the computer is not
in a domain).
Note: on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 service interaction
with the desktop is not allowed, despite the permanence of the option. This is because,
for security reasons, on these operating systems a service can not interact with
the user session. The backup is still performed in background although it is not
visible to the user eventually logged.
Backup scheduling:
When the service is installed and started, it handles all of the various Backup
Set schedulings. The scheduling can then be set normally, with the advantage that
the service will be able to run multiple Backup Set at the same time, several overlapping
schedulings and therefore parallel and independent 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.