TRIM Integration with Data Protector

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Step-by-Step Guide for a TRIM Backup
The following sections use the concepts explained in the previous sections to explain how to
accomplish a backup using Data Protector step-by-step, including installation of Data Protector itself.
Make sure that you have familiarized yourself with these concepts, otherwise the steps in the following
sections will not be clear.
Installing Data Protector
Installing Data Protector is explained in detail in the Data Protector Installation and Licensing Guide
and will not be covered here. However, you can use Figure 4 to determine the components that need
to be installed on the individual hosts. For example:
• A Cell Manager is required in the network to control all operations.
• A Disk Agent is required on every host containing data to be backed up.
• A Media Agent is needed on every host serving as a backup target (and which might be connected
to a tape library or similar).
Depending on the database used as a Metadata Database, you need to install additional components
on the relevant Disk Agents to ensure proper database backups. Data Protector has off-the-shelf
integrations for Oracle, MS SQL Server 2005, DB2 and Sybase.
Figure 5 and Figure 6
show an example of how to install these integrations. In the example, we
assume that the TRIM installation uses a MS SQL server as Metadata database. To install these
components using push installation, make sure that you have installed the DP Installation Server.
Figure 5: Installing additional components on a client