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

6 Backup ...................................................................... 71
Introduction ................................................................................................ 71
Backup concepts .................................................................................. 71
Creating backup specifications ..................................................................... 72
Backup options ........................................................................................... 75
7 Restore ...................................................................... 81
Introduction ................................................................................................ 81
Instant recovery .......................................................................................... 81
Instant recovery procedure ..................................................................... 82
Instant recovery using the GUI ......................................................... 82
Instant recovery using the CLI .......................................................... 84
Instant recovery options ......................................................................... 85
Instant recovery and LVM mirroring ......................................................... 85
Instant recovery in a cluster .................................................................... 86
8 Troubleshooting .......................................................... 87
Before you begin ........................................................................................ 87
Checks and verifications .............................................................................. 87
Backup problems ........................................................................................ 87
Instant recovery problems ............................................................................. 89
9 Running and scheduling ZDB sessions ................................ 91
Scheduling ZDB sessions .................................................................................... 91
Starting interactive ZDB sessions .......................................................................... 92
Using the GUI ............................................................................................ 92
Using the CLI .............................................................................................. 93
10 Internal Database Maintenance ....................................... 95
Overview ......................................................................................................... 95
Configuring the IDB Backup ......................................................................... 95
Backing up the IDB ............................................................................................ 96
Restoring the IDB ............................................................................................... 97
Purging the IDB ................................................................................................. 98
A Appendix ....................................................................... 99
Alternate paths support ...................................................................................... 99
Cluster configurations ......................................................................................... 99
Client on the application system in a cluster, Cell Manager in a cluster ............ 100
Cell Manager on the backup system in a cluster ............................................ 101
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