Glossary

SUSPENDED - The link between the mirrored disks is suspended. That means that both disks are accessed and updated independently. However, the mirror relationship is still maintained and the pair can be resynchronized without transferring the complete disk.

parallel restore

Restoring backed up data to multiple disks at the same time (that is, in parallel) by running multiple Disk Agents, that receive data from one Media Agent. For the parallel restore to work, select data that is located on different disks or logical volumes and during backup, the data from the different objects must have been sent to the same device using a concurrency of 2 or more. During a parallel restore, the data for multiple objects selected for restore is read from media at the same time, thereby improving performance.

parallelism

The concept of reading multiple data streams from an online database.

physical device

A physical unit that contains either a drive or a more complex unit such as a library.

post-exec

A backup option that executes a command or script after the backup of

an object or after the entire session completes. Post-exec commands are not supplied by Data Protector. You need to create your own. They can be written as executables or batch files on Windows and as shell scripts on UNIX.

See also pre-exec.

pre- and post-exec commands

Pre- and post-exec commands are used to perform additional action before and after a backup or restore session. They are not supplied by Data Protector. You need to create your own commands. They can be written as executables or batch files on Windows and as shell scripts on UNIX.

prealloc list

A subset of media in a media pool that specifies the order in which media are used for backup.

pre-exec

A backup option that executes a command or script before the backup of an object or before the entire session is started. Pre-exec commands are not supplied by Data Protector. You need to create your own. They can be written as executables or batch files on Windows and as shell scripts on UNIX.

See also post-exec.

Primary Volume (P-VOL) (HP

StorageWorks Disk Array XP specific term)

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