G-8
Glossary
environment. One cell can control the
robotics, serving the devices that are
connected to systems in other cells.
The CMMDB must reside on the MoM
Manager. A reliable network connection
between the MoM cell and the other
Data Protector cells is highly
recommended
See also MoM.
COM+ Registration Database
The COM+ Registration Database and
the Windows Registry store COM+
application attributes, class attributes,
and computer-level attributes. This
guarantees consistency among these
attributes and provides common
operation on top of these attributes.
command-line interface
A set of DOS and UNIX like commands
that you can use in shell scripts to
perform Data Protector configuration,
backup, restore, and management tasks.
concurrency
See Disk Agent concurrency.
control file (Oracle and SAP R/3
specific term)
An Oracle data file that contains entries
specifying the physical structure of the
database. It provides database
consistency information used for
recovery.
CRS
The Cell Request Server process
(service) runs on the Data Protector Cell
Manager. It starts and controls the
backup and restore sessions. The service
is started as soon as Data Protector is
installed on the Cell Manager.
CRS runs under the account root on
UNIX systems, and under any Windows
account. By default, it runs under the
account of the user, specified at
installation time.
data file (Oracle and SAP R/3 specific
term)
A physical file created by Oracle that
contains data structures such as tables
and indexes. A data file can only belong
to one Oracle database.
data protection
Defines how long the backed up data on
media remains protected, that is, Data
Protector will not overwrite it. When the
protection expires, Data Protector will
be able to reuse the media in one of the
next backup sessions.
See also catalog protection.
Data Protector Event Log
A central repository of all Data
Protector related notifications. By
default, all notifications are sent to the
Event Log. The Event Log is accessible
only to Data Protector users in the
Admin group and to Data Protector