This very accessible book is a valuable resource for pre-sales, consultants, sysadmins and anyone involved in deploying a new instance of Data Protector. For resellers, distributors or HP staff involved in pre-sales it provides an overview of research into what the customer base has found valuable in Data Protector, and some in-depth coverage of some very common solution designs. For consultants and implementors this book provides step-by-step screenshots to implement Data Protector functions from scratch. The walk-throughs show much more detail than the HP-supplied manuals, and also provides guidance on what can go wrong and suggestions for good designs. It can be used as a course book for a one day face-to-face delivered class. Slides for instructors to use are available separately. Topics covered:
Reasons customers choose Data Protector
Areas of comparative weakness
Installing Windows and Linux cell managers
Agent deployment methods
StoreOnce de-duplication
Backing up filesystems
Backing up VMware
Backing up cloud-hosted servers
Configuring tape drives
Managing media
Backups spooled via disk
Remote office backups replicated to a central office
Reporting
There is also a chapter on the internal database schema -- content unique to this book -- to complement the content on backup and restore of the internal database.