HP B6960-96035 manual Planning your backup strategy

Media management	48
Backup devices	49
User interfaces	50
Data Protector GUI	50
Data Protector Java GUI	52
Overview of tasks to set up Data Protector	55
2 Planning your backup strategy	57
In this chapter	57
Backup strategy planning	58
Defining the requirements of a backup strategy	58
Factors influencing your backup strategy	60
Preparing a backup strategy plan	60
Planning cells	62
One cell or multiple cells?	62
Installing and maintaining client systems	64
Creating cells in the UNIX environment	64
Creating cells in the Windows environment	65
Windows domains	65
Windows workgroups	66
Creating cells in a mixed environment	66
Geographically remote cells	66
Understanding and planning performance	67
The infrastructure	67
Network versus local backups	67
Network or server versus direct backups	68
Devices	68
High performance hardware other than devices	69
Advanced high performance configuration	69
Using hardware in parallel	69
Configuring backups and restores	70
Software compression	70
Hardware compression	70
Full and incremental backups	71
Disk image versus filesystem backups	71
Object distribution to media	71
Disk performance	72
SAN performance	73
Online database application performance	73
Planning security	73
Cells	74
Data Protector users accounts	74

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