HP Application Recovery Manager software Integration guide (March 2008)

Figure 3 Actors of the Application Recovery Manager VSS integration

backup model

Without using the Volume Shadow Copy Service, Application Recovery Manager

has to communicate with each application to be backed up individually. The

Application Recovery Manager VSS integration introduces a unified backup and

restore interface and provides the coordination among the participants of the backup

and restore process.

Zero downtime backup

Zero downtime backup is a backup approach in which replication techniques are

used to minimize the impact of backup operations on an application system. A replica

of the data to be backed up is created first, and all subsequent backup operations

are performed on the replicated data rather than the original data.

As a backup occurs in the background while the application remains online and

available for use, the impact on your environment during a backup is minimal. The

recovery window is reduced as well by using the instant recovery (IR) functionality,

which enables recovery of vast amount of data in minutes rather than hours. This

Integrating the Application Recovery Manager ZDB integrations and Microsoft Volume

Shadow Copy Service