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HP OpenView Storage Data Protector
Administrator’s Guide
Manual Edition: May 2003
Manufacturing Part Number: B6960-90078
Release A.05.10
© Copyright Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.2003.
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Legal Notices Hewlett-Packard makes no warranty of any kind with regard to this manual, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Hewlett-Packard shall not be held liable for errors contained herein or direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance, or use of this material. Warranty. A copy of the specific warranty terms applicable to your Hewlett-Packard pr
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©Copyright 1985-86, 1988 Massachusetts Institute of Technology ©Copyright 1989-93 The Open Software Foundation, Inc. ©Copyright 1986-1997 FTP Software, Inc. All rights reserved ©Copyright 1986 Digital Equipment Corporation ©Copyright 1990 Motorola, Inc. ©Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992 Cornell University ©Copyright 1989-1991 The University of Maryland ©Copyright 1988 Carnegie Mellon University ©Copyright 1991-1995 by Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ©Copyright 1999, 200
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HP-UX Release 11.00 and later (in both 32- and 64-bit configurations) on all HP 9000 computers are Open Group UNIX 95 branded products. Netscape and Netscape Navigator are U.S. trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation. OpenView® is a registered U.S. trademark of Hewlett-Packard Company. © 2003 Bristol Technology, Inc., Bristol Technology, Wind/U, HyperHelp and Xprinter are registered trademarks of Bristol Technology Inc. Other reserved names are trademarks of the respective compani
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Contents 1. Introducing Data Protector In This Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The Data Protector Cell Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 How a Backup Session Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 How a Restore Session Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents Activating Cartridge Memory Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Disabling a Backup Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Removing a Backup Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Renaming a Backup Device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Device Lock
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Contents Selecting Media for Backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Media Selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Setting Data Protection for Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Recycling Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents Backing Up CONFIGURATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Backing Up Windows Clients Using Disk Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Backing Up Windows Shared Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Backing Up Windows Disks as Disk Image Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Backing Up Novell NetWare Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents Preventing Backup Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Restarting Failed Backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 6. Restore In This Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 68 Restoring Your Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents 7. Monitoring, Reporting, Notifications, and the Event Log In This Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 08 Monitoring Sessions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 Viewing Currently Running Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 Viewing Finished Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents Generating the Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 Configuring Notifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 Configuring Report Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 Data Protector Event Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 8. Manag
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Contents Reducing the IDB Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405 Reducing the IDB Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 Purging Obsolete Filenames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408 Extending the Database Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408 Checking the Dat
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Contents Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460 Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461 Enhanced Automated Disaster Recovery of a Windows System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464 Limitati
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Contents General Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514 Troubleshooting Assisted Manual Disaster Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515 Troubleshooting Disk Delivery Disaster Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515 Troubleshooting EADR and OBDR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516 11. Customizing the Data Protector Environment In This Ch
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Contents Troubleshooting Data Protector Services and Daemons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569 Problems Starting Data Protector Services on Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569 Problems Starting Data Protector Daemons on UNIX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571 Data Protector Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573 Troubleshooting Devices and Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents Temporary Directory Missing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597 Problems During Backup and Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598 Performance Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599 MMDB and CDB Are Not Synchronized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600 Troubleshooting Reporting and Notifica
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Contents 14. ADIC/GRAU DAS and STK ACS Libraries In This Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 56 ADIC/GRAU DAS and STK ACS Integrations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657 Configuration Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659 Media Management Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents Creating a libaci.o on AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-26 Example of the Package Configuration File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-28 Example of the Package Control File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-38 Data Protector Log Files Example Entries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-44 debug.log . . . . . . . .
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Printing History The manual printing date and part number indicate its current edition. The printing date will change when a new edition is printed. Minor changes may be made at reprint without changing the printing date. The manual part number will change when extensive changes are made. Manual updates may be issued between editions to correct errors or document product changes. To ensure that you receive the updated or new editions, you should subscribe to the appropriate product support
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