BackBox H4.00 User Manual

ii BackBox H4.00 User Manual
ENTITIES CONFIGURED IN A DOMAIN ..................................................................... 35
Domain ................................................................................................... 36
VTCs and Virtual Devices ........................................................................... 36
Data Stores ............................................................................................. 36
Volume Groups......................................................................................... 36
SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS AT INSTALLATION ........................................................... 37
Requirement for the mount request message in EMS .................................... 37
Recommendation for the TAPE DEFINE ........................................................ 37
Options for BACKUP, BRCOM and TMF ......................................................... 38
Characteristics of virtual volumes ............................................................... 38
Size of virtual volumes ...................................................................................................................................... 38
Number of virtual volumes ................................................................................................................................ 39
Media type of virtual volumes ........................................................................................................................... 39
DOMAIN NETWORK .......................................................................................... 40
BackBox network topology ......................................................................... 40
BackBox TCPIP ports ................................................................................. 41
Considerations about the Scope of a Domain ................................................ 41
Number of NonStop nodes per BackPak Domain .............................................................................................. 41
Number of VTCs per domain ............................................................................................................................ 42
Network Configuration ............................................................................... 42
TAPE CATALOGS IN THE NONSTOP SYSTEM ............................................................... 43
Installation with DSM/TC, TMF and QTOS .................................................... 43
Installation with QTOS .............................................................................. 44
Installation with CA Universe ..................................................................... 44
NONSTOP ACCESS AUTHORIZATIONS ..................................................................... 44
How BackPak actions are initiated .................................................................................................................... 45
Access to the NSK files in the BackPak installation sub volume ...................................................................... 46
Access to the NSK utilities ................................................................................................................................ 47
NonStop Access - BBSV PROGID ................................................................................................................... 47
WINDOWS FILES DATA STORES ........................................................................... 49
File servers / NAS considerations ................................................................ 49
Hardware requirements ...................................................................................................................................... 49
NAS de-duplication vs. BackBox compression ................................................................................................. 49
Details on the disk file-system usage .......................................................... 49
File Access Authorizations .......................................................................... 50
Data Store pool(s) changes ........................................................................ 50
Distribution of files among the paths of a pool .............................................. 51
TSM DATA STORES ......................................................................................... 52
TSM server configuration ........................................................................... 52
Storage Pool ....................................................................................................................................................... 52
Management Class ............................................................................................................................................. 52
Definition of the TSM client node ..................................................................................................................... 53
Configuration of the TSM client in each VTC ................................................. 53
Creating the DSM.OPT with the TSM Backup GUI ........................................................................................... 53
EMS EXTRACTORS CONFIGURATION ...................................................................... 57
BBEXT configuration file ............................................................................ 57
SET UP FOR RECOVERY ..................................................................................... 60
Data on the NonStop servers ..................................................................... 60
Summary of operational files ............................................................................................................................. 60
BackBox configuration ...................................................................................................................................... 61
Catalog of virtual volumes ................................................................................................................................. 61
Basic protection for the BackPak files ............................................................................................................... 62
Basic protection of NonStop DSM/TC catalogs ................................................................................................ 63
Protection with the BackPak Disaster/Recovery option ..................................................................................... 63