HP File Archiving Software manual Best Practices

Best Practices

Create a new HP StorageWorks File Migration Agent (FMA) archive

FMA archive configuration for a Windows FTP archive

Prerequisites

For archiving data to a Windows-based HP StorageWorks File System Extender (FSE) Archive, the GDS FTP-Server needs to be set up on the FSE Archive.

The GDS FTP-Server comes with its own user management facilities. Therefore, the FTP authentication process is completely controlled by the GDS FTP-Server and no Windows domain user account needs to be created for the FTP client access.

Because the GDS FTP-Server runs as a Windows service, user access to the FTP server’s home directory can be restricted to designated administrators of the domain.

The absolute path to the archive directory is composed of the root directory, which is specified in the configuration file ftp_server.cfg of the GDS FTP-Server, and the root path set up in the FMA’s RSA-FTP configuration dialog. If a root path is defined on the client side (FMA), the administrator needs to create this subdirectory during the GDS FTP-Server configuration.

The absolute path to the archive directory in the following example should be: c:\fsefs1\data1\fma

Example of the GDS FTP-Server configuration file ftp_server.cfg file

[default]

RootDirectory = c:\fsefs1

Port = 21

UserFile = C:\program files\Hewlett-Packard\FTPServer\GDSFtpServerUsers

LogFile = C:\program files\Hewlett-Packard\FTPServer\GDSFtpServer.log

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