Planning, Deploying and Installing Data Protector 9: For the datacentre, the cloud and remote offices

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.


As of publishing, this book has the only documented method for restoring the version 8 (PostgreSQL) internal database from backup.