9 Direct backup

In this chapter

This chapter introduces the direct backup concept and the technologies that enable it. The chapter also discusses the direct backup configurations that are supported by Data Protector.

It is organized as follows:

“Overview” on page 243

“Requirements and support” on page 249

“Supported configurations” on page 250

Overview

The storage industry’s demand for backup solutions that minimize application downtime and system loads while maximizing backup speeds is growing. Data volume is also growing; it has doubled every 1.5 years over the last 20 years and continues to grow even faster.

Applications and services need to be online nearly all the time with maximum performance. Backup windows are narrow and performance degradation due to backup (or anything else) is no longer acceptable.

In addition, the requirement for solutions that do not demand substantial investment in solution-specific equipment is also growing.

This multi-pronged requirement has led to the development and introduction of new direct or “serverless” backup technologies.

For enterprises and service providers that manage mission critical Oracle environments, Data Protector’s direct backup feature is a non-intrusive, serverless backup extension to HP’s family of network backup solutions.

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