Document Outline

• Contents
• About this guide
  • Intended audience
  • Related documentation
  • Document conventions and symbols
  • HP technical support
  • Customer self repair
  • Product warranties
  • Registering your tape drive
  • Subscription service
  • HP websites
  • Documentation feedback
• 1 Before you start
  • Overview
  • Optional tape attach
  • Software and hardware requirements
  • Terminology
    • Autoloaders
    • Backup devices and slots
    • Hosts
    • Import/Export and Copy
    • iSCSI
    • Mail slots (import/export elements)
    • Physical tape drives
    • RAID
  • Storage capacity
    • Physical storage
    • Actual storage used
    • Considerations when configuring cartridges and slots
  • Tape rotation strategies
  • Compression
• 2 Connecting and installing the HPD2D Backup System
  • Connect the hardware
    • DHCP and static IP addressing
    • Optional Tape Attach
  • Supported network configurations
    • As a device on a Gigabit Ethernet network
    • Directly connected to a backup server on your main network
  • Software installation, discovery and configuration
  • Recommended web browser settings
    • Internet Explorer 7.X
    • Internet Explorer 6.X
    • Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 2.X
• 3 Attaching a physical tape drive(optional)
  • Hardware requirements for Tape Attach
  • Tape drive installation overview
  • Removing the access panel and bezel
  • Installing the HBA
  • Installing an internal tape drive
  • Replacing the access panel and bezel
  • Connecting an external tape drive
• 4 The Installation wizard
  • Before you install the first host
  • Run the Installation wizard
• 5 Advanced installation
  • Using DHCP to discover the HP D2D Backup System
  • Using the Discovery Engine to discover the HP D2D BackupSystem
    • Beacon mode
    • If the HP D2D Backup System is new and not yet configured
    • If the HP D2D Backup System has been configured incorrectly
    • If the network setup has been changed
  • Microsoft iSCSI Initiator
    • Manual iSCSI initiator installation
    • The iSCSI Initiator
      • General tab
      • Discovery tab
      • Targets tab
      • Persistent Targets tab
      • Bound Volumes/Devices tab
  • Linux iSCSI initiator
  • Manual driver installation
    • HP LTO Tape driver
    • Medium changer driver
• 6 LEDs
  • Understanding the LEDs
    • Bootup LED sequence
    • Firmware LED sequence
  • Beacon mode
• 7 Backup scenarios using the HPD2D Backup System
  • Simple backup
  • Office backup
    • Fileserver
    • Database server
    • Desktop PC
    • Summary
  • High-performance workstation backup
    • Main backup to autoloaderThe data at 250 GB exceeds
    • Additional backup to tape drive
    • Summary
  • Incorporating archive to tape into a rotation strategy
• 8 The Web Management Interface
  • What is the Web Management interface?
  • To run the Web Management Interface
  • Summary (Home)
    • Status icons
  • Devices (Configuration)
    • To view device details
    • To edit device details
    • To create a new device
    • To delete a device
  • Cartridges (Configuration)
    • Empty slots
    • To remove a cartridge
    • To write protect a cartridge
    • To edit maximum size
    • To create a cartridge
  • Network (Configuration)
    • To edit network settings
    • Resetting network settings to factory defaults
    • Beacon mode
  • Email Alerts (Configuration)
    • To configure Microsoft Exchange Server
  • Disk & RAID (Status)
    • RAID status
    • Disk usage
    • Physical disks
  • iSCSI (Status)
  • Log (Status)
  • Tape Attach pages
  • Shutdown (Admin)
  • Administration (Admin)
    • Resetting the password
  • Firmware (Admin)
  • Support (Admin)
• 9 Export, import and copy usingan attached tape drive
  • Requirements for connecting a tape drive to the HP D2D
  • A note about terminology
  • Archiving methods
    • Cartridge copy
      • Why use the Copy functionality?
      • When would Copy be used?
      • When is it necessary to restore from a copied cartridge?
      • Disadvantages of Copy
    • Cartridge export
      • Why use the Export functionality?
      • When would Export be used?
      • When would I restore from an exported cartridge?
      • Disadvantages of Export
    • Cartridge import
    • Tape spanning
  • Using the Web Management interface to copy/export/importcartridges
    • Configuration (Tape Attach)
      • Adding tape drives to the list
      • Upgrading tape drive firmware
    • Copy/Export/Import (Tape Attach)
      • To copy to attached tape drive
      • To export to attached tape drive
      • To import from attached tape drive
    • Status (Tape Attach)
      • To cancel a job
      • If an error occurs
    • Schedule (Tape Attach)
      • To create a schedule
      • To view, edit or delete existing schedules
    • Job History (Tape Attach)
  • Compression
• 10 Copy using a tape driveattached to the host
  • Requirements
    • Tape drives supported
  • Archive from host to tape process
    • Further information
  • Compression
• 11 Restore processes
  • Restore scenarios
  • Restoring from the HP D2D Backup System
  • Reconnecting to the HP D2D after host failure
• 12 Troubleshooting
  • Connecting the hardware
    • My network does not have a spare Gigabit port
    • The supplied cable is too short
    • I am connecting directly to a 10/100 Base-T port on a storage server
  • DHCP is not working
  • Running the Installation wizard
    • Drivers fail to install using the install wizard
    • Device discovery fails to find device
    • iSCSI Initiator fails to download
    • The wizard has not created an autoloader for my host
  • Manual installation
  • HP D2D Backup System troubleshooting
    • Powering up the HP D2D Backup System
    • Shutting down the HP D2D Backup System
    • Disconnecting hosts
  • Device troubleshooting
    • Host cannot connect to the device from Web Management Interface
    • Backup application fails to see device
    • I cannot create a device
    • I cannot see additional slots from the backup application
    • A deleted device keeps reappearing
    • If backup is slow
  • Cartridge troubleshooting
    • I cannot resize cartridges
    • My tape drive device has run out of space
    • The cartridges for my attached tape drive are smaller than 200 GB
  • Attached tape drive troubleshooting
    • An attached tape drive does not appear on the Web interface
    • Cartridge copy or export fails
    • Cartridge import fails
  • Email alerts troubleshooting
  • Disk troubleshooting
    • If the HP D2D Backup System runs out of space
    • If a disk fails
• 13 Hard disk replacement
  • Replaceable parts
    • RAID 5
  • How do I know a disk has failed?
    • If more than one disk fails
  • Electrostatic discharge information
  • Replacing the hard disk
  • Replacing a complete unit
• Index