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

6 Backup
Introduction
This chapter describes configuring filesystem and disk image ZDB using the
Application Recovery Manager GUI.
You should be familiar with XP concepts and procedures and basic Application
Recovery Manager ZDB and instant recovery functionality. See the XP-related
documentation and the HP Application Recovery Manager software concepts guide.
Backup concepts
XP backup consists of one phase (optionally two, if third–party backup software is
used):
1. Application system data gets synchronized to the backup system.
During this phase, the synchronization is performed on the level of participating
volume groups (UNIX) or disks (Windows). Therefore, if multiple filesystems/disk
images are configured in the same volume group or on the same disk, the whole
volume group or disk (all filesystems or disk images in this volume group or on
disk) is synchronized to the backup system regardless of the objects selected for
backup.
2. Synchronized backup system data can be backed up to a backup device using
third–party backup software. Such a backup can be restored only using the
third–party software.
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