12 Split mirror concepts

In this chapter

This chapter introduces the split mirror backup concept and discusses the configurations that are supported by HP.

It is organized as follows:

Overview” on page 243

Supported configurations” on page 269

Overview

Modern high availability (HA) storage configurations introduce new demands on backup concepts. The configuration consists of one of numerous variations of single or multiple mirror structures.

The usual approach is to use one replica (mirror copy) for the backup task, while the source volumes still serve the application. See Figure 78 on page 266.

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