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Media management .......................................................................................... 48
Backup devices ................................................................................................. 49
User interfaces .................................................................................................. 50
Data Protector GUI ...................................................................................... 50
Data Protector Java GUI ........................................................................ 52
Overview of tasks to set up Data Protector ............................................................ 55
2 Planning your backup strategy .......................................... 57
In this chapter ................................................................................................... 57
Backup strategy planning ................................................................................... 58
Defining the requirements of a backup strategy ............................................... 58
Factors influencing your backup strategy ........................................................ 60
Preparing a backup strategy plan ................................................................. 60
Planning cells .................................................................................................... 62
One cell or multiple cells? ............................................................................ 62
Installing and maintaining client systems ........................................................ 64
Creating cells in the UNIX environment .......................................................... 64
Creating cells in the Windows environment .................................................... 65
Windows domains ............................................................................... 65
Windows workgroups ........................................................................... 66
Creating cells in a mixed environment ........................................................... 66
Geographically remote cells ......................................................................... 66
Understanding and planning performance ............................................................ 67
The infrastructure ......................................................................................... 67
Network versus local backups ................................................................ 67
Network or server versus direct backups .................................................. 68
Devices ............................................................................................... 68
High performance hardware other than devices ........................................ 69
Advanced high performance configuration .............................................. 69
Using hardware in parallel .................................................................... 69
Configuring backups and restores ................................................................. 70
Software compression ........................................................................... 70
Hardware compression ......................................................................... 70
Full and incremental backups ................................................................. 71
Disk image versus filesystem backups ...................................................... 71
Object distribution to media ................................................................... 71
Disk performance ........................................................................................ 72
SAN performance ....................................................................................... 73
Online database application performance ..................................................... 73
Planning security ............................................................................................... 73
Cells ......................................................................................................... 74
Data Protector users accounts ....................................................................... 74
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