HP B6960-90078 manual Backing Up Windows Shared Disks, When to Use Shared Disks Backup

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When to Use Shared Disks Backup

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Backing Up Windows Systems

See “Using Backup Options” on page 225 for information on using and structuring your backup specifications.

Backing Up Windows Shared Disks

Data Protector allows you to back up data on Windows shared disks. You have to use a regular Disk Agent client, which can then be used to back up other remote systems via shared disks. Then you can configure a backup specification.

Backup using the shared disk method is a workaround for backing up systems which cannot be backed up otherwise. It is better not to use it as the main backup approach.

Use shared disks backup in either of the following situations:

•The remote system does not belong to the Data Protector cell and does not have the Data Protector Disk Agent installed.

•The platform to be backed up is not directly supported by Data Protector, for example, Windows 3.11.

To reduce the network load, the Disk Agent client should be the Media Agent client as well. Otherwise, data is transferred over the network twice.

You can use one Windows client to manage backups and restores involving shared disks or other remote systems. Backup performance may be reduced if you start too many backups at a time, since one Disk Agent is started for each backed up disk. In this case, you should configure additional Disk Agent clients to increase the backup speed.

Backing up writers that store their data on network shared volumes using the VSS functionality is not supported.

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