MicroFocus Data Protector 9.0X Essentials

Module 1 — Introduction

• Welcome 
• Overview
• Agenda

Module 2 — HP’s Adaptive Backup and Recovery Solutions

• HP Adaptive Backup and Recovery concept 
• HP Adaptive Backup and Recovery Suite .
• HP Data Protector 
• Introducing Data Protector 9.0 
• Non-Staged Granular Recovery for VMware 
• Data Protector Federated Deduplication 
• Data Protector Catalyst Over Fiber Channel 
• Data Protector Enhanced UI Preview 
• HP Backup Navigator 
• Data Protector Management Pack 

Module 3 — Architecture

• HP Data Protector 
• HP Data Protector history 
• Protected environment 
• Backup options 
• Direct attached backup
• Network backup 
• SAN attached backup 
• Array based replica backup (ZDB) 
• Backup and replication methods 
• Cell concept 
• Client server architecture 
• Cell Manager (CM) 
• Disk Agent (DA) 
• Media Agent (MA) 
• Integration Agent (IA) 
• Installation Server (IS) 
• User Interface 
• Granular Recovery Extension Agent 
• Internal Database (IDB) 
• Typical Data Protector session 
• Variables used in this training 
• DP Tuning via global file 
• DP Tuning via omnirc file 
• Support matrix

Module 4 — Installation

• Installation Overview 
• Cell Manager Platform Support DP 9.0X 
• Localization 
• DP 9.00 DVD Packaging 
• Product Documentation 
• Overall Installation Sequence 
•  Plan the layout of the cell 
• Check hardware and software requirements 
• Preparation on Windows 
• Installation Wizard on Windows 
• CM Installation on Windows   cont. 
• CM Installation on Windows   cont. 
• CM Installation on Windows  cont. 
• Preparation on UNIX
• DP 9.00 Cell Manager Installation on UNIX Systems 
• DP 9.00 Cell Manager processes 
• Client installation overview 
• Remote push installation 
• Remote push installation  cont. 
• Remote push installation  cont. 
• Windows Firewall push installation 
• Push installation with secure shell 
• Local client installation - Windows 
• Local Client Installation - Unix 
• Export of clients 
• Import of clients 
• Adding components to clients 

Module 5 —Upgrade and Migration

• Contents 
• Upgrade and Migration Scenarios 
• Upgrade and Migration Scenarios cont. 
• Upgrade & Migration Windows 
• Upgrade & Migration paths HP-UX, Linux and Solaris 
• Upgrade of a Windows Cell Manager 1/4 
• Upgrade of a Windows Cell Manager 2/4 
• Upgrade of a Windows Cell Manager 3/4 
• Upgrade of a Windows Cell Manager 4/4 
• After Core Migration 
• Manually Catalog Migration 
• The omnimigrate command 
• Report old Catalog 
• IDB Size and Update Duration 
• Upgrade of a UNIX Cell Manager
• Upgrade of a MoM Environment 

Module 6 — Licensing and Product Structure

• Data Protector licensing 
• Data Protector licensing schemes 
• Data Protector product structure – traditional 
• New Capacity based license method 
• License key validity 
• SLIDE: License reporting Checking
• SLIDE: License reporting tool 
• SLIDE: General hints

 Module 7 — Backup Devices

• DP Device types 
• The logical device 
• Physical to logical device mapping 
• Data Protector tape format
• Tape based Storage Devices 
• HP Tape drive portfolio 
• Tape drive performance considerations 
• Tape library terminology
• SAN connected SCSI Library – example configuration 
• Multiple devices 
• Multipath devices 
• SCSI library – Autoconfiguration 
• SCSI Library – Properties 1/4 
• SCSI Library – Properties 2/4 
• SCSI Library – Properties 3/4 
• SCSI Library – Properties 4/4 
• SCSI Library – Drive Properties 1/4 
• SCSI Library – Drive Properties 2/4 
• SCSI Library – Drive Properties 3/4 
• SCSI Library – Drive Properties 4/4 
• Device preparation on Windows 
• Automatically discover changed SCSI address 
• Disk based Backup Devices 
• Virtual Tape Library - Overview 
• Configure a VTL in Data Protector 
• Backup to Disk device (B2D) - Overview 
• File Library - Overview 
• File Library – Configuration 1/3 
• File Library – Configuration 2/3 
• File Library – Configuration 3/3 
• Disk Staging 
• Device tools: Devbra, uma.
• Device tools cont.: SANConf, LTT 

Module 8 — Media Management

• The Media Pool 
• Media pool properties - General 
• Media pool properties - Allocation 1/2 
• Media pool properties - Allocation 2/2 
• Media pool properties - Condition factors 
• Media pool properties – Media pool usage 
• Media pool properties – Media pool quality 
• Creating a Media pool 1/4 
• Creating a Media pool 2/4 
• Creating a Media pool 3/4 
• Creating a Media pool 4/4 
• Free pool concept 
• Multiple free pools 
• Free pool properties 
• Create a Free Pool 
• Medium Properties 
• Location Tracking and Priority 
• Media Management actions 
• Formatting Tape Media 
• Media Export & Import 1/2 
• Media Export & Import 2/2 
• Vaulting with Media Pools 

Module 9 — Backup

• Backup, high level view 
• Backup specification execution 
• Backup Specification Content 
• Creating backup specification 
• Backup context / Group view 
• Creating backup specification 
• Creating backup specification: Wizards 
• Creating backup specification: Sources 
• Creating backup specification: Destination
• Dynamic device allocation 1/2 
• Dynamic device allocation 2/2 
• Static device allocation 
• Object mirroring 1/2 
• Object mirroring 2/2 
• Creating backup specification: Options 
• Creating backup specification: Filesystem options 1/2 
• Creating backup specification: Filesystem options 2/2 
• Scheduler – Feature Comparison 
• Using the Legacy Scheduler 1/2 
• Using the Legacy Scheduler 2/2 
• Using the Advanced Scheduler 1/2 
• Using the Advanced Scheduler 2/2 
• Using an incremental backup chain 
• Protection of a backup chain
• Creating Backup Spec: Backup Object Summary 
• Backup Object Summary – Object Properties 1/2 
• Backup Object Summary – Object Properties 2/2 
• Preview backup session 
• Pre- and post- execution 
• Performing backups 
• Backup session message output 
• Resume/Restart failed Backup sessions 
• Missed job executions 
• Reconnect broken connections 

Module 10 — Restore

• What is Restore?
• Restore methods 
• Restore prerequisites 
• Concept of Parallel Restore
• Restore – Sequence 
• Restore – Objects 
• Restore – Session 
• Restore – Source 
• Restore – Object properties 
• Restore – Destination
• Restore – Options 
• Restore – Devices 
• Restore – Media 
• Restore – Media/object copies 
• Restore – Summary 
• Restore – Single or parallel? 
• Restore – Point in time restore 
• Restore – By query name or location 
• Restore – By query backup or modification time 
• Resume failed Restore sessions 

Module 11 — Monitoring, Reporting, Notification

• Monitoring, Reporting, Notification overview 
• Monitoring current sessions 
• Viewing previous session details 
• Reporting possibilities 
• Reports and report categories 
• Reporting overview 
• Interactive Reports 
• Scheduled Reports 
• Scheduled Reports cont. 
• Notification overview 
• Default notification 
• Adding a notification 
• Web Reporting 

Module 12 — Media and Object Copy and Verification

• Overview..
• Media Copy 
• Interactive media copy 
• Automated Media Operation 1/2 
• Automated Media Operation 2/2 
• Object Copy 
• Object Copy – Example 1 .
• Object Copy – Example 2 
• Object Copy GUI/CLI 
• Interactive Object Copy 1/3 
• Interactive Object Copy 2/3 
• Interactive Object Copy 3/3 
• Automated Object Copy 1/2 
• Automated Object Copy 2/2 
• Object Copy wizard – Filter 1/2 
• Object Copy wizard – Filter 2/2 
• Object Copy wizard – Devices 
• Object Copy wizard – Options
• Media and Object verification 
• Media verification 
• Object Verification GUI/CLI 
• Interactive Object verification 1/4 
• Interactive Object verification 2/4 
• Interactive Object verification 3/4 
• Interactive Object verification 4/4 

Module 13 — Object Consolidation

• Object Consolidation - Motivation
• Synthetic Full Backup  – How it Works 
• Synthetic Full Backup – Requirement 1/2 
• Synthetic Full Backup – Requirement 2/2 
• Object Consolidation GUI/CLI 
• Interactive Object Consolidation 1/3 
• Interactive Object Consolidation 2/3 
• Interactive Object Consolidation 3/3 
• Virtual Full Backup – How it Works 
• Virtual Full Backup  – Requirements 
• Synthetic Full Backup vs. Virtual Full Backup 1/2
• Synthetic Full Backup vs. Virtual Full Backup 2/2
• Object Consolidation – Backup Types 
• Restore Considerations 
• Restore with Consolidation and Copies
• Limitations 

Module 14 — Internal Database

• Concept 1/4 – Embedded database system 
• Concept 2/4 – DP IDB as embedded database 
• Concept 3/4 – What is the IDB used for 
• Concept 4/4 – PostgreSQL 
• Architecture 1/7 – Overview 
• Architecture 2/7 – Catalog database
• Architecture 3/7 – Media Management database 
• Architecture 4/7 – Detail Catalog Binary Files 
• Architecture 5/7 – Session Message Binary Files
• Architecture 6/7 – Serverless Integration Binary Files 
• Architecture 7/7 – Encryption Keystore 
• IDB Directory structure 
• IDB related Data Protector Services
• Internal Database Size Limits
• Administration tasks
• Manage IDB grow 1/2 
• Manage IDB grow 2/2 
• IDB Maintenance 1/3 
• IDB Maintenance 2/3 
• IDB Maintenance 3/3
• Maintenance Mode 1/2
• Maintenance Mode 2/2
• IDB Backup 
• IDB Backup objects 
• IDB Incremental Backups 
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• IDB Restore - Overview 
• IDB Online Restore 1/4 
• IDB Online Restore 2/4 
• IDB Online Restore 3/4 
• IDB Online Restore 4/4 
• IDB Offline Restore 
• IDB Restore during Disaster Recovery
• IDB reports 
• Notifications

Module 15 — Deduplication

• Deduplication technology 
• How Deduplication works 
• Supported Deduplication Configurations
• Target side Deduplication Source side Deduplication 
• Server side Deduplication 
• Multi side Deduplication 
• Backup-to-Disk (B2D) devices 
• Configure a Backup to Disk device 1/6 
• Configure a Backup to Disk device 2/6 
• Configure a Backup to Disk device 3/6 
• Configure a Backup to Disk device 4/6 
• Configure a Backup to Disk device 5/6 
• Configure a Backup to Disk device 6/6 
• Gateway Configuration for Source Side Deduplication
• Gateway Configuration for Target Side Deduplication 
• Gateway Configuration for Server Side Deduplication
• Creating a backup specification 
• Running Backup with Data Deduplication 
• Creating an Object Replication specification 

Module 16 — Access control and Security

• Access control and security levels 
• Access Control 
• User Rights 
• User Groups 
• The Admin Group 
• The Operator Group 
• The User Group
• Custom Groups 
• Default group permissions 
• Add User Group 
• Add Users
• User Restrictions 
• LDAP user integration 
• Client and Cell security 
• Certificate based DP GUI connection 
• Network Access—INET (HP-UX) 
• Network Access—INET (Windows) 
• Inet User Impersonation 
• Creating Impersonator Users 
• Changing the Web Password 

Module 17 — Auditing

• Auditing overview
• Backup session auditing 
• Enhanced Event logging 

Module 18 — Disaster Recovery

• Overview Disaster Recovery 
• Disaster Recovery Phases 
• DRM for EADR and OBDR 
• Phase 0 a: Perform a full backup 
• Phase 0 b: Create DR Image 1/4 
• Phase 0 b: Create DR Image 2/4 
• Phase 0 b: Create DR Image 3/4
• Phase 0 b: Create DR Image 4/4 
• Phase 1: Booting the recovery image 
• Recovery Method/options GUI 
• Recovery progress monitor GUI 
• DR on Dissimilar hardware 

Module 19 — Patching

• Data Protector Enhancements and Fixes 
•  How to download Fixes and Enhancements 
• Download from Software Support Online (SSO) 
• GR Patch Installation 
• Step 1: Update the Installation Server (IS) 
• Step 2: Update the Client 
• List installed Data Protector Patches 

Module 20 — Troubleshooting

• Log files
• Debug Log Collector 
• Message Details 
• Network Connectivity 
• Services 
• Backup Devices
• Backup and Restore 
• omnihealthcheck
• HealthCheckConfig file 
• omnitrig –run_checks 

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Author Mukesh Handa
Jame Cook University Australia
Muk_handa@yahoo.com
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