Document Outline

• Concepts guide
• Table of Contents
• Publication history
• About this guide
  • Intended audience
  • Documentation set
    • Guides
    • Online Help
    • Documentation map
      • Abbreviations
      • Map
      • Integrations
  • Document conventions and symbols
  • Data Protector graphical user interface
  • General information
  • HP technical support
  • Subscription service
  • HP websites
  • Documentation feedback
• 1 About backup and Data Protector
  • In this chapter
  • About Data Protector
  • Introducing backups and restores
    • What is a backup?
    • What is a restore?
    • Backing up a network environment
    • Direct backup
  • Data Protector architecture
    • Operations in the cell
    • Backup sessions
    • Restore sessions
  • Enterprise environments
    • Splitting an environment into multiple cells
  • Media management
  • Backup devices
  • User interfaces
    • Data Protector GUI
      • Data Protector Java GUI
        • Benefits of Java GUI
        • Differences from the Original Data Protector GUI
  • Overview of tasks to set up Data Protector
• 2 Planning your backup strategy
  • In this chapter
  • Backup strategy planning
    • Defining the requirements of a backup strategy
    • Factors influencing your backup strategy
    • Preparing a backup strategy plan
  • Planning cells
    • One cell or multiple cells?
    • Installing and maintaining client systems
    • Creating cells in the UNIX environment
    • Creating cells in the Windows environment
      • Windows domains
      • Windows workgroups
    • Creating cells in a mixed environment
    • Geographically remote cells
  • Understanding and planning performance
    • The infrastructure
      • Network versus local backups
      • Network or server versus direct backups
      • Devices
      • High performance hardware other than devices
      • Advanced high performance configuration
      • Using hardware in parallel
    • Configuring backups and restores
      • Software compression
      • Hardware compression
      • Full and incremental backups
      • Disk image versus filesystem backups
      • Object distribution to media
    • Disk performance
    • SAN performance
    • Online database application performance
  • Planning security
    • Cells
    • Data Protector users accounts
    • Data Protector user groups
    • Data Protector user rights
    • Visibility of backed up data
    • Data encryption
      • How Data Protector AES 256-bit encryption works
      • How Data Protector drive-based encryption works
      • Restore from encrypted backups
    • What is backup ownership?
  • Clustering
    • Cluster concepts
    • Cluster support
    • Example cluster environments
      • Cell Manager installed outside a cluster
      • Cell Manager installed outside a cluster, devices connected to the cluster nodes
      • Cell Manager installed in a cluster, devices connected to the cluster nodes
  • Full and incremental backups
    • Full backups
      • Synthetic backup
    • Incremental backups
      • Conventional incremental backup
      • Enhanced incremental backup
      • Types of incremental backups
    • Considering restore
  • Keeping backed up data and information about the data
    • Data protection
    • Catalog protection
    • Logging level
    • Browsing files for restore
      • Enabling the browsing of files and quick restore
      • Enabling the restore of files, but not browsing
      • Overwriting backed up files with new data
      • Exporting media from a cell
  • Backing up data
    • Creating a backup specification
    • Selecting backup objects
    • Backup sessions
    • Object mirrors
    • Media sets
    • Backup types and scheduled backups
    • Scheduling, backup configurations, and sessions
    • Scheduling tips and tricks
      • When to schedule backups
      • Staggering full backups
      • Optimizing for restore
  • Automated or unattended operation
    • Considerations for unattended backups
  • Duplicating backed up data
    • Copying objects
      • Why use object copy?
    • Object mirroring
    • Copying media
      • Automated media copying
      • Smart media copying using VLS
  • Restoring data
    • Restore duration
    • Selection of the media set
    • Selection of devices
    • Operators are allowed to restore
    • End users are allowed to restore
  • Disaster recovery
    • Disaster recovery methods
      • Alternative disaster recovery methods
        • Recovery methods supported by operating system vendors
        • Recovery using third-party tools (for Windows)
• 3 Media management and devices
  • In this chapter
  • Media management
  • Media life cycle
  • Media pools
    • Free pools
    • Media pool usage examples
    • Implementing a media rotation policy
      • Media rotation and Data Protector
      • Media needed for rotation
  • Media management before backups begin
    • Initializing or formatting media
    • Labeling Data Protector media
    • Location field
  • Media management during backup sessions
    • Selecting media for backups
    • Adding data to media during backup sessions
    • Writing data to several media sets during backup
    • Calculating media condition
  • Media management after backup sessions
    • Vaulting
    • Restoring from media in a vault
  • Devices
    • Device lists and load balancing
      • How load balancing works
    • Device streaming and concurrency
    • Segment size
    • Block size
    • Number of disk agent buffers
    • Device locking and lock names
  • Standalone devices
  • Small magazine devices
  • Large libraries
    • Handling of media
    • Size of a library
    • Sharing a library with other applications
    • Enter / eject mail slots
    • Barcode support
    • Cleaning tape support
    • Sharing a library with multiple systems
  • Data Protector and Storage Area Networks
    • Storage Area Networks
    • Fibre Channel
      • Point-to-point topology
      • Loop topology
      • Switched topology
    • Device sharing in SAN
      • Configuring multiple paths to physical devices
      • Device locking
    • Indirect and Direct Library Access
      • Indirect Library Access
      • Direct Library Access
    • Device sharing in clusters
      • Static drives
      • Floating drives
• 4 Users and user groups
  • In this chapter
  • Increased security for Data Protector users
    • Access to backed up data
  • Users and user groups
    • Using predefined user groups
    • Data Protector user rights
• 5 The Data Protector internal database
  • In this chapter
  • About the IDB
    • The IDB on the Windows Cell Manager
    • The IDB on the UNIX Cell Manager
    • The IDB in the Manager-of-Managers environment
  • IDB architecture
    • Media Management Database (MMDB)
    • Catalog Database (CDB)
    • Detail Catalog Binary Files (DCBF)
    • Session Messages Binary Files (SMBF)
    • Serverless Integrations Binary Files (SIBF)
  • IDB operation
    • During backup
    • During restore
    • During object copying or object consolidation
    • Exporting media
    • Removing the detail catalog
    • Filenames purge
    • File versions purge
  • Overview of IDB management
  • IDB growth and performance
    • Key IDB growth and performance factors
    • IDB growth and performance: key tunable parameters
      • Logging level as an IDB key tunable parameter
      • Catalog protection as an IDB key tunable parameter
      • Recommended usage of logging level and catalog protection
    • IDB size estimation
• 6 Service management
  • In this chapter
  • Overview
    • Data Protector and service management
  • Native Data Protector functionality
    • Application Response Measurement version 2.0 (ARM 2.0 API)
    • Integration with HP Operations Manager software
    • SNMP traps
    • The monitor
    • Reporting and notification
    • Event logging and notification
      • Data Protector log files
    • Windows application log
    • Java-based online reporting
    • Data Protector checking and maintenance mechanism
    • Central management, distributed environment
    • Using the data provided by Data Protector
  • Service management integrations
    • Data Protector OM-R integration
    • Data Protector OM SIP
• 7 How Data Protector operates
  • In this chapter
  • Data Protector processes or services
  • Backup sessions
    • Scheduled and interactive backup sessions
    • Backup session data flow and processes
    • Pre-exec and post-exec commands
    • Queuing of backup sessions
    • Mount requests in backup sessions
    • Backing up with disk discovery
  • Restore sessions
    • Restore session data flow and processes
    • Queuing of restore sessions
    • Mount requests in a restore session
    • Parallel restores
    • Fast multiple single file restore
  • Object copy sessions
    • Automated and interactive object copy sessions
    • Object copy session data flow and processes
    • Queuing of object copy sessions
    • Mount requests in an object copy session
  • Object consolidation sessions
    • Automated and interactive object consolidation sessions
    • Object consolidation session data flow and processes
    • Queuing of object consolidation sessions
    • Mount requests in an object consolidation session
  • Media management sessions
    • Media management session data flow
• 8 Integration with database applications
  • In this chapter
  • Overview of database operation
  • Filesystem backup of databases and applications
  • Online backup of databases and applications
• 9 Direct backup
  • In this chapter
  • Overview
    • Direct backup
      • Direct backup benefits
    • How direct backup works
      • Environment
      • About resolve
      • About XCopy
      • XCopy + Resolve
    • Direct backup process flow
      • Backup stages for data files
      • Restore
  • Requirements and support
  • Supported configurations
    • Three hosts: CM, application, Resolve
    • Two Hosts: Cell Manager/Resolve Agent and application
    • Basic configuration: single host
• 10 Disk backup
  • In this chapter
  • Overview
  • Disk backup benefits
  • Data Protector disk-based devices
• 11 Synthetic backup
  • In this chapter
  • Overview
  • Synthetic backup benefits
  • How Data Protector synthetic backup works
    • Synthetic backup and media space consumption
  • Restore and synthetic backup
    • How data protection periods affect restore from synthetic backup
• 12 Split mirror concepts
  • In this chapter
  • Overview
  • Supported configurations
    • Local mirror - dual host
    • Local mirror - single host
    • Remote mirror
    • Local/remote mirror combination
    • Other configurations
• 13 Snapshot concepts
  • In this chapter
  • Overview
    • Storage virtualization
    • Snapshot concepts
    • Snapshot backup types
    • Instant recovery
    • Replica set and replica set rotation
    • Types of snapshots
  • Supported configurations
    • Basic configuration: single disk array - dual host
    • Other supported configurations
    • Other configurations
• 14 Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy service
  • In this chapter
  • Overview
  • Data Protector Volume Shadow Copy integration
  • VSS filesystem backup and restore
• A Backup scenarios
  • In this appendix
    • Considerations
  • Company XYZ
    • Environment
    • Backup strategy requirements
    • Proposed solution
  • Company ABC
    • Environment
    • Backup strategy requirements
    • Proposed solution
• B Further information
  • In this appendix
  • Backup generations
  • Examples of automated media copying
    • Example 1: automated media copying of filesystem backups
      • Incr1 backup
      • Full backup
    • Example 2: automated media copying of Oracle database backups
      • Full backup
  • Internationalization
    • Localization
    • File name handling
      • Background
      • File name handling during backup
      • Browsing file names
      • File name handling during restore
• Glossary
• Index