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

SAPDBA (SAP R/3 specific term) An SAP R/3 user interface that integrates

the BRBACKUP, BRARCHIVE, and BRRESTORE tools.

Scheduler A function that controls when and how often automatic backups

occur. By setting up a schedule, you automate the start of

backups.

secondary volume

(S-VOL)

(HP StorageWorks Disk Array XP specific term) secondary

volumes, or S-VOLs, are XP LDEVs that act as a secondary BC

mirror of another LDEV (a P-VOL). The S-VOLs are assigned

separate SCSI addresses, different from the addresses used by

the P-VOLs.

See also primary volume (P-VOL)

session See backup session.

session ID An identifier of a backup or restore session, consisting of the

date when the session ran and a unique number.

session key This environment variable for the Pre- and Post-exec script is an

Application Recovery Manager unique identification of any

session. The session key is not recorded in the database, and

it is used for specifying options for the omnistat and

omniabort CLI commands.

shadow copy (Microsoft VSS specific term) A volume that represents a

duplicate of the original volume at a certain point in time. The

data is then backed up from the shadow copy and not from the

original volume. The original volume continues to change as

the backup process continues, but the shadow copy of the

volume remains constant.

See also Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service and replica.

shadow copy

provider

(Microsoft VSS specific term) An entity that performs the work

on creating and representing the volume shadow copies.

Providers own the shadow copy data and expose the shadow

copies. Providers can be software (for example, system

providers) or hardware (local disks, disk arrays).