2 Planning your backup strategy

In this chapter

This chapter describes backup strategy planning. It focuses on planning Data Protector cells, performance, and security, as well as backing up and restoring data. The chapter also discusses basic backup types, automated backup operation, clustering, and disaster recovery.

It is organized as follows:

Backup strategy planning” on page 58

Planning cells” on page 62

Understanding and planning performance” on page 67

Planning security” on page 73

Clustering” on page 79

Full and incremental backups” on page 91

Keeping backed up data and information about the data” on page 99

Backing up data” on page 102

Automated or unattended operation” on page 110

Duplicating backed up data” on page 112

Restoring data” on page 125

Disaster recovery” on page 128

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