HP OpenView Storage B6960-96008 BC Process EMC Symmetrix specific term, See also SAPDBA, Brbackup

Glossary

BC Process (EMC Symmetrix specific term)

A protected storage environment solution that has defined specially configured EMC Symmetrix devices as mirrors or Business Continuance Volumes to protect data on EMC Symmetrix standard devices.

See also BCV.

BC VA (HP StorageWorks Virtual Array specific term)

Business Copy VA allows you to maintain internal copies of HP StorageWorks Virtual Array LUNs for data backup or data duplication within the same virtual array. The copies (child or Business Copy LUNs) can be used for various purposes, such as backup, data analysis or development. When used for backup purposes, the original (parent) LUNs are connected to the application system and the Business Copy (child) LUNs are connected to the backup system.

See also HP StorageWorks Virtual Array LUN, application system, and backup system.

BCV (EMC Symmetrix specific term) Business Continuance Volumes, or BCV devices, are dedicated SLDs that are pre-configured in the ICDA on which the business continuation operation runs. BCV devices are assigned separate SCSI addresses, differing from the addresses used by the SLDs they mirror.

The BCV devices are used as splittable mirrors of the primary EMC Symmetrix SLDs that need to be protected.

See also BC and BC Process.

Boolean operators

The Boolean operators for the full text search functionality of the online Help system are AND, OR, NOT, and NEAR. Used when searching, they enable you to define your query precisely by creating a relationship between search terms. If no operator is specified in a multi-word search, AND is used by default. For example, the query consistency checkmanual disaster recovery is equivalent to consistencymanual AND checkdisaster AND recovery.

boot volume/disk/partition

A volume/disk/partition with files required for the initial step of the boot process. Microsoft terminology defines the boot volume/disk/partition as a volume/disk/partition containing the operating system files.

BRARCHIVE (SAP R/3 specific term) An SAP R/3 backup tool that allows you to archive redo log files. BRARCHIVE also saves all the logs and profiles of the archiving process.

See also SAPDBA, BRBACKUP and

BRRESTORE.

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