User's Manual

• Backup using HP Data Protector or Symantec NetBackup
• Restore from backup using HP Data Protector or Symantec NetBackup
• File Copy restore
• Volume restore
• Co-existence with autonomic groups (domain sets, volume sets, and host sets)
• Virtual copy creation of LCR databases where the active and passive copies both reside on
a single HP 3PAR Storage System.
• Virtual copy creation of CCR databases, where active and passive copies reside on a single
or dual HP 3PAR Storage System with single or dual Recovery Manager backup servers, where
the second backup server connects to a secondary HP 3PAR Storage System at the remote
site
• Virtual Lock of CCR storage groups and CCR virtual copies
• Recovery Manager GUI
• Recovery Manager CLI
• Virtual copy creation for local and remote Exchange servers
• Single Copy Cluster for Exchange 2007
• Host sets for Single Copy Cluster
• Centralized virtual copy management with multiple Exchange servers
• Cross–Windows-domain support
• HP 3PAR Remote Copy Software (in both synchronous and asynchronous periodic mode)
• Queueing of virtual copy creation and backup for different storage groups from the same
backup server
Features Not Supported
• VSS backup types “Incremental”, “Differential”, “Copy” and “Log”
• A single Exchange server spanning different HP 3PAR Storage Systems
• All backup tools excluding HP Data Protector and Symantec NetBackup
• Access to the HP 3PAR Storage System via SSH
• Creation of virtual copy on System Boot Volume
• Exchange CCR volumes in a Remote Copy volume group
• Cross HP 3PAR Storage System mounts (includes CCR dual HP 3PAR Storage System
configurations)
• VSS snapshot backup for SCR node
• Windows automount feature
• Date customization: Recovery Manager always displays dates in month/day/year format
Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service
Microsoft includes VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) in Windows to simplify the enterprise’s
storage environment. It provides a framework for creating a point-in-time copy of a single or multiple
volumes.
Microsoft Windows Server VSS works with the VSS-aware applications that are in use to determine
when a volume shadow copy (snapshot) can be made. (A snapshot is a virtual copy: a copy of
some data set, for example, a disk volume, at a point in time.) VSS then communicates with the
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