Page 3 - Contents
Contents Publication history ................................................................ 7About this guide ................................................................... 9 Intended audience ............................................................................................... 9Doc...
Page 5 - Figures
Figures Data Protector graphical user interface ............................................... 19 1 I/O configuration: standalone device ................................................. 23 2 I/O configuration: SCSI tape library .................................................. 27 3 Specifying bac...
Page 6 - Tables
Tables Edition history ................................................................................... 7 1 Document conventions ...................................................................... 17 2 Backup types ..................................................................................
Page 7 - Publication history
Publication history Guide updates may be issued between editions to correct errors or document productchanges. To ensure that you receive updated or new editions, subscribe to theappropriate product support service. See your HP sales representative for details. Table 1 Edition history Product Guide ...
Page 9 - About this guide; Intended audience; Guides
About this guide This guide describes how to configure and use Data Protector with MPE/iX systems. Intended audience This guide is intended for backup administrators responsible for planning, setting up,and maintaining network backups. It assumes you are familiar with: • Basic Data Protector functio...
Page 12 - Online Help
describes how to configure and use Data Protector to perform backup and restoreusing the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service. • HP Data Protector MPE/iX system user guide This guide describes how to configure MPE/iX clients and how to back up andrestore MPE/iX data. • HP Data Protector Media Operat...
Page 13 - Documentation map; Abbreviations
Documentation map Abbreviations Abbreviations in the documentation map that follows are explained below. The guidetitles are all preceded by the words “HP Data Protector”. Guide Abbreviation Command line interface reference CLI Concepts guide Concepts Disaster recovery guide DR Getting started guide...
Page 14 - Map
Guide Abbreviation Installation and licensing guide Install Media Operations getting started guide MO GS Media Operations product announcements, software notes, andreferences MO RN Media Operations user guide MO UG MPE/iX system user guide MPE/iX Product announcements, software notes, and references...
Page 15 - Integrations
Integrations Look in these guides for details of the following integrations: Guide Integration IG-OMU, IG-OMW HP Operations Manager for UNIX/for Windows IG-PM/PA HP Performance Manager IG-PM/PA HP Performance Agent MPE/iX system user guide 15
Page 17 - Document conventions and symbols
Guide Integration IG-Var Sybase all ZDB EMC Symmetrix IG-Var VMware Document conventions and symbols Table 2 Document conventions Element Convention Cross-reference links and e-mail addresses Blue text: Table 2 on page 17 Website addresses Blue, underlined text: http://www.hp.com Text emphasis Itali...
Page 18 - Data Protector graphical user interface
NOTE: Provides additional information. TIP: Provides helpful hints and shortcuts. Data Protector graphical user interface Data Protector provides a cross-platform (Windows and UNIX) graphical userinterface. You can use the original Data Protector GUI (Windows only) or the DataProtector Java GUI. For...
Page 19 - General information; HP technical support
Figure 1 Data Protector graphical user interface General information General information about Data Protector can be found at http://www.hp.com/go/ dataprotector . HP technical support For worldwide technical support information, see the HP support website: http://www.hp.com/support Before contactin...
Page 20 - Documentation feedback
Subscription service HP recommends that you register your product at the Subscriber's Choice for Businesswebsite: http://www.hp.com/go/e-updates After registering, you will receive e-mail notification of product enhancements, newdriver versions, firmware updates, and other product resources. HP webs...
Page 21 - MPE/iX system user guide; Introduction; Integration concepts; Prerequisites
1 MPE/iX system user guide Introduction This chapter explains how to configure and use the Data Protector MPE/iX integration.It describes concepts and methods you need to understand to back up and restorethe following MPE/iX data: • User files and directories • System files • Filesystem directories ...
Page 22 - Before you begin; Configuring devices; Configuring standalone devices
• For an up-to-date list of supported versions, platforms, devices, required patchesand other information, see the HP Data Protector product announcements, softwarenotes, and references or http://www.hp.com/support/manuals . • Ensure that TurboSTORE/iX or TurboSTORE/iX 7x24 True-Online is installed ...
Page 26 - Configuring SCSI tape libraries
6. Keep the new configuration and exit SYSGEN : Enter Y for Purge old configuration (yes/no)? . 7. Create a device link file using mknod : :mknod “/dev/picker c 0 31” :mknod “/dev/drive c 0 30” 8. To verify the changes, restart the system. After you connected and configured standalone devices, confi...
Page 29 - Backup
6. Keep the new configuration and exit SYSGEN : Enter Y for Purge old configuration (yes/no)? . 7. Create a device link file using mknod : :mknod “/dev/dlt_picker c 0 30” :mknod “/dev/dlt_tape01 c 0 31” :mknod “/dev/dlt_tape02 c 0 32” 8. Restart the system to verify the changes. After you connected ...
Page 30 - User-definable backup variables
You perform an MPE/iX backup in the same way as the filesystem backup. For theprocedure, see the online Help index: “creating backup specifications”. Additionally, specify the supported MPE/iX backup options in the form of extendedvariables. See “ User-definable backup variables ” on page 30. User-d...
Page 31 - Setting Backup Variables
Setting Backup Variables 1. In the HP Data Protector , switch to the Backup context. 2. In the Scoping Pane, expand Backup , and double-click Backup Specifications . 3. Right-click the backup specification and select Properties from the pop-up menu. 4. Click the Options tab, and then click Advanced ...
Page 33 - TurboSTORE/iX backup options; Full system backup
6. In the Advanced window, enter the supported MPE/iX variable, for example ONLINE with the value START . See Figure 5 on page 33. Figure 5 Entering the variable 7. Click Add to add the new variable to the list. TurboSTORE/iX backup options See “ User-definable backup variables ” on page 30 for the ...
Page 34 - Creating SLT; Creating Store Tapes; Restore
Creating SLT To create a SLT, run: sysgen>TAPE (or sysgen>TA ) When the tape is created, you receive the message that boot backup was generatedsuccessfully. If an error occurs, a flashing TAPE ERROR message is issued to the console. Create the SLT tape each time you make configuration changes....
Page 35 - User-definable restore variables; Setting Restore Variables
User-definable restore variables Set user-definable variables (a variable name and its value) to enable flexibleoperation of the Data Protector MPE/iX integration. Table 5 on page 35 lists restore variables and their values. Table 5 List of restore variables Description Value Variable Restores the M...
Page 36 - TurboSTORE/iX restore options
7. In the Advanced dialog box, specify the appropriate variable and its value, and then click Add . Figure 6 Entering the variable 8. Click OK to apply the settings. TurboSTORE/iX restore options The variable VOLSET=/ VOLUMESETNAME directs the restore behavior to write the data to /VOLUMESETNAME . I...
Page 37 - Example; Disaster recovery
The following TurboSTORE/iX restore options cannot be used as they are replacedby the standard Data Protector functionality: COPYACD , KEEP , NEWDATE , NOACD , OLDDATE , and SHOW . Pre- and post-exec commands Before backup or restore, you may want to check the number of files to back up,stop some tr...
Page 38 - Supported CLI commands
See the STORE and TurboSTORE/iX Products Manual for more information aboutdisaster recovery on MPE/iX. Prerequisites • SLT containing system parameters and I/O configuration • Store tape containing user files and directories and system directory information Recovery Procedure 1. Boot your system fro...
Page 39 - Backup and restore of MPE/iX database
Prerequisites • For the omnib command to operate properly, add the MANAGER.SYS user to the admin group. NOTE: Due to the limitations of the MPE/iX Posix shell (utility nroff is not implemented), it is not possible to implement help for this command as a man page. For a description of the omnib comma...
Page 40 - TurboSTORE/iX log files
TurboSTORE/iX log files During backup or restore, TurboSTORE/iX creates a log file, saved in the /tmp directory. Its name consists of store or restore process and the process identificationnumber (pid), for example store74711122.log . IMPORTANT: TurboSTORE/iX log file for backup can show more object...
Page 41 - UDC files and environment variables; UDC files
Example 2. TurboSTORE/iX log files with ONLINE=START >> TURBO-STORE/RESTORE VERSION C.60.17 B5152AA << (C) 1986 Hewlett-Packard CO.STORE /SYS/SAMPLEDB/;;TREE;ONVS=MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET;ONLINE=START;NW3K^MTHU, JAN 25, 2007, 3:59 PM ONLINE BACKUP UTILIZED DISC SPACE FOR LOG ON THE FOLLOW...
Page 42 - OB2SET file
5 * <- END OF UDC COMMAND 6 // .../keep OB2UDCF.PUB.SYS/exit END OF SUBSYSTEM: To activate the UDC file enter: :SETCATALOG OB2UDC.PUB.SYS; APPEND OB2SET file OB2SET file can be created with any editor. Below is an example of the Data Protector environment variables: Example SETVAR OB2DEVRETRY 5 S...
Page 43 - Index
Index A audience , 9 B backing up MPE/iX , 29 database backup , 39 full system backup , 33 online backups , 29 true-online backups , 29 TurboSTORE/iX backup options , 33 user-definable backup variables , 30 C concepts MPE/iX integration , 21 configuring devices MPE/iX integration , 22 configuring MP...