HP Application Recovery Manager software A.06.10 Administrator's guide (March 2008)

2 Backup ...................................................................... 29
Introduction ................................................................................................ 29
Snapshot types ..................................................................................... 30
Replica creation and reuse .................................................................... 30
Replica redundancy level ....................................................................... 31
ZDB in HP-UX LVM mirroring environments ............................................... 31
Creating backup specifications ..................................................................... 33
Backup options ........................................................................................... 39
3 Restore ...................................................................... 45
Introduction ................................................................................................ 45
Instant recovery .......................................................................................... 45
Instant recovery methods ....................................................................... 46
Switching disks .............................................................................. 46
Copying replica data and retaining the source volume ........................ 47
Copying replica data without retaining the source volume ................... 48
Instant recovery procedure ..................................................................... 48
Instant recovery using the GUI ......................................................... 49
Instant recovery using the CLI .......................................................... 52
Instant recovery options ......................................................................... 52
Instant recovery and LVM mirroring ......................................................... 55
Reducing and extending mirrors ....................................................... 55
Instant recovery in a cluster .................................................................... 56
4 Troubleshooting .......................................................... 57
Before you begin ........................................................................................ 57
Checks and verifications .............................................................................. 57
Backup problems ........................................................................................ 57
Instant recovery problems ............................................................................. 61
II ..HP StorageWorks Disk Array XP ...................................... 63
5 Configuration and maintenance .................................... 65
Introduction ................................................................................................ 65
ZDB database - XPDB .................................................................................. 66
Configuring the integration ........................................................................... 67
Command device handling .................................................................... 67
XP LDEV exclude file ............................................................................. 68
Maintaining the integration .......................................................................... 69
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