HP Data Protector Express 6.0 Release Notes (TC330-96001, September 2011)

boot device. Data Protector Express treats the device as a single logical media. The size of the
media is equal to the amount of available space on the device.
You can include or exclude removable devices from backup, restore, and verify jobs. They are
excluded by default. If you include removable media, any removable media that matches the
device/media criteria for a backup job might be used. The Data Protector Express Media Copy
feature is currently not selectable and therefore not supported for removable devices.
NOTE: Spanning is supported only on cartridge-based removable devices.
Removable cartridge devices
Data Protector Express defines a removable cartridge device as a device that has a fixed drive
that can write to multiple removable (ejectable) cartridges, such as an HP RDX Removable Disk
Backup System. They can be used for backup and archiving. Similar to tape devices, one Data
Protector Express media is created per removable cartridge.
Removable disk devices
Data Protector Express defines a removable disk device as a device that writes data to a disk with
a fixed amount of storage space and does not have a removable (ejectable) cartridge. Only one
Data Protector Express media is created on a removable disk device. Examples of supported
removable disk devices are USB memory sticks or FireWire/USB connected external hard disk
drives (Windows only).
Linux cannot recognize FireWire/USB connected external hard disks as removable disk devices.
They are detected like a regular disk devices and used by Data Protector Express as regular disk
devices.
Installation Instructions
For installation instructions, see the HP Data Protector Express Installation Guide on the Manuals
page at http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/datapexp/index.html.
Customer Support
Customers under a support contract may receive their support by phone or by submitting an email.
Country specific details on both options can be found at http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/
wwcontact.html.
If you wish to upgrade or extend your product support, please contact your HP Partner for
information on obtaining an extended, upgraded, or new HP Data Protector Express support
contract.
Self-service support is available via the Guided Troubleshooting link at http://www.hp.com/go/
dataprotectorexpress.
Proactive Updates
Receive support alerts (such as Customer Advisories), driver updates, software, firmware, and
customer-replaceable components in your e-mail through HP Subscriber's Choice. Sign up for
Subscriber's Choice Driver, Patch, Security, and Support alerts at http://www.hp.com/go/
myadvisory.
To sign up for other Subscriber's Choice services, see http://www.hp.com/go/e-updates.
Determining Current Version
If you require technical support, you will be asked which version of Data Protector Express is
installed on your machine. To determine which version you are running, open Data Protector
Express and click on Help and then About.
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