HP B6960-96035 manual Automated or unattended operation, Considerations for unattended backups

Figure 30 Full backup with mixed incremental backups

This policy takes into account the fact that there are not many changes during weekends. Data is backed up using a combination of simple incremental backups and Incr1 (differential) backups to optimize backup performance. To restore files from Thursday’s backup, you need to provide media from the full backup and the second Incr1 backup, that is, two media sets.

Automated or unattended operation

To simplify operation and the operator’s involvement in the backup process, Data Protector provides extensive functionality supporting unattended or automatic backup during lights-out time. This section describes how to plan your scheduling policies, how these policies influence the behavior of backup, and provides examples of scheduling policies. This section focuses on longer periods of unattended operation spanning from several days to weeks, rather than the unattended operation during a single backup.

Considerations for unattended backups

Data Protector provides simple ways of scheduling your backups. Since the effectiveness of scheduling policies depends on your environment, you need to plan before finding the best scheduling policy.

110 Planning your backup strategy