HP Data Protector A.06.00 additional writers and HP StorageWorks Disk Array XP support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service integration

VSS backup types
Data Protector supports only full backups.
The following backup types are available with the Data Protector VSS integration:
• Local or network VSS backup
The shadow copy is backed up to tape or to disk from the application system.
• VSS transportable backup
Instead of presenting the volume shadow copies to the application system they
are presented to an alternate system, the backup system, which then performs
the backup to tape, thus reducing the impact of backup on the application server
to the creation of volume shadow copies. A VSS hardware provider that supports
transportable snapshots is required. It also provides the option to mount the backup
replicas on a backup system.
VSS transportable backup advantages
VSS transportable snapshot backup offers additional advantages over local or network
VSS backup:
• The impact on performance on the application server is reduced.
• Following the shadow copy creation, the tape backup can be performed on the
backup system at leisure pace.
VSS restore
Using Data Protector, you can perform the restore:
• From backup media to the application system on LAN (standard restore).
• Using the instant recovery functionality with the Microsoft Exchange Server and
Microsoft SQL Server ZDB integrations. During the instant recovery, the data in
the specified replica (left unchanged for the purpose of instant recovery) is restored
to the application system source volumes. Only the needed differential and
transaction log backups are restored from the backup medium.
Instant recovery considerations
• The instant recovery functionality restores data from a replica on the backup
system to the source volumes on the application system. Therefore, using instant
recovery, it is only possible to selectively restore separate writer’s components if
they reside on separate source volumes.
Integrating the Data Protector ZDB integrations and Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service64