HP Application Recovery Manager software A.06.10 Concepts guide (March 2008)

Contents
About this guide ................................................................... 9
Intended audience ............................................................................................... 9
Documentation set ............................................................................................... 9
Guides ........................................................................................................ 9
Online help ................................................................................................ 10
Documentation map .................................................................................... 11
Abbreviations ...................................................................................... 11
Map ................................................................................................... 11
Document conventions and symbols ..................................................................... 12
Application Recovery Manager graphical user interface ......................................... 13
General Information ........................................................................................... 14
HP technical support .......................................................................................... 14
Subscription service ........................................................................................... 15
HP websites ...................................................................................................... 15
Documentation feedback .................................................................................... 15
1 Overview ....................................................................... 17
Introduction ...................................................................................................... 17
Zero downtime backup ....................................................................................... 17
Online and offline creation of replicas ........................................................... 18
Creating replicas ........................................................................................ 19
Instant recovery or restoring data from ZDB ........................................................... 19
2 Replication techniques ..................................................... 21
Disk array basics ............................................................................................... 21
RAID technology ......................................................................................... 21
Replication techniques ........................................................................................ 22
Local replication ................................................................................................ 23
Split mirror replication ................................................................................. 23
Snapshot replication .................................................................................... 25
Standard snapshot ................................................................................ 26
Vsnap ................................................................................................. 27
Concepts guide 3