Media management ..........................................................................................

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Backup devices .................................................................................................

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User interfaces ..................................................................................................

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Data Protector GUI ......................................................................................

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Data Protector Java GUI ........................................................................

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Overview of tasks to set up Data Protector ............................................................

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2 Planning your backup strategy ..........................................

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In this chapter ...................................................................................................

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Backup strategy planning ...................................................................................

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Defining the requirements of a backup strategy ...............................................

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Factors influencing your backup strategy ........................................................

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Preparing a backup strategy plan .................................................................

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Planning cells ....................................................................................................

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One cell or multiple cells? ............................................................................

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Installing and maintaining client systems ........................................................

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Creating cells in the UNIX environment ..........................................................

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Creating cells in the Windows environment ....................................................

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Windows domains ...............................................................................

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Windows workgroups ...........................................................................

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Creating cells in a mixed environment ...........................................................

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Geographically remote cells .........................................................................

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Understanding and planning performance ............................................................

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The infrastructure .........................................................................................

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Network versus local backups ................................................................

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Network or server versus direct backups ..................................................

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Devices ...............................................................................................

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High performance hardware other than devices ........................................

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Advanced high performance configuration ..............................................

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Using hardware in parallel ....................................................................

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Configuring backups and restores .................................................................

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Software compression ...........................................................................

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Hardware compression .........................................................................

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Full and incremental backups .................................................................

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Disk image versus filesystem backups ......................................................

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Object distribution to media ...................................................................

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Disk performance ........................................................................................

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SAN performance .......................................................................................

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Online database application performance .....................................................

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Planning security ...............................................................................................

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Cells .........................................................................................................

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Data Protector users accounts .......................................................................

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