May 10
IDB restore with Data Protector 8 and later is really straight forward. It allows a much more granular recovery than in previous versions, since it’s done using a fully featured module instead of a file system hot-backup. You’re able to restore the IDB (PostgreSQL database) including log file recovery, DCBF files and configuration files individually or all together …
May 09
This post will show you how to re-initialize the Internal Database of Data Protector 8 or later to start from scratch without the need for re-installation. This was quite simple on previous versions and needs to be adjusted for the new PostgreSQL database and JBoss application server. These instructions will work on Linux and HP-UX. If I find a proper …
May 07
I just came across a strange Data Protector User Interface error. After a fresh installation the DP GUI reported the following error during first start. Internal Error Non-recoverable error: (0) Failed to initialize the working environment. System error: Unknown The debug.log created in the home directory of the user had the following error in it …
Apr 25
If you migrate from a previous version to Data Protector A.08.00 or later on Windows, you might come across an issue where you’re unable to remove the old db40\dcbf directories using GUI or omnidbutil -remove_dcdir. This is most likely caused by the used path separator inside the Internal Database. Since version 8 the path separator …
Sep 04
There are situations in which you receive test modules or quick fixes from HP support to resolve a specific issue in your environment. Even if they provide instructions on how to apply them, I found the following general procedure working quite well for Linux clients and cell managers. Upload the fix to the client system …
Aug 14
Integrating Debian or Debian-based Linux clients (e.g. Ubuntu) into a Data Protector cell could be a pain, if you have more than a bunch of them. Patch rollout and release upgrades will even take more time if you poke around with alien to convert the Data Protector rpm into deb format. There are some simple requirements …
Aug 03
I just came across an issue at customer site where Data Protector Device Mirror was used to duplicate NDMP backups. In general this is a great way to reduce the amount of time it takes to create separate sets of media at backup time. The worse thing is, this feature is not supported in Data …
Jul 22
There are cases in with you need to apply GA patches to a UNIX client and you don’t have an Data Protector UNIX IS (Installation Server) available. This is worse, because the patches are designed to update an installation server only. The following procedure will help you out. Instead of applying the patches to an …
Jul 21
Here are some required, but not well documented requirements for Data Protector Cell Manager (Cell Server) installation on the Linux platform. Update: This information has been revised for SLES11. These steps are not intended to replace the Installation and Licensing documentation shipped with the media kit. Rather they should help you to bring things up …
Jan 01
I spend some time on the Data Protector NDMP Integration, especially to compare it to CIFS/NFS backups available with the regular Disk Agent. Luckily an older EMC Celerra NS20 was available and I was able start immediately. A quick look at the NDMP support matrix revealed no restrictions since the unit was running T5.6.50.203. To …