[Add to favorites] Remove the backup misunderstanding

HP always believes that backup is only a means. The purpose of backup is to prevent data disasters, shorten the downtime, ensure data security, and upgrade server hardware. The ultimate goal of backup is recovery! The tape drive provides cost-effective backup ~ 20% of investment, achieving 100% reliability.

Many system administrators and CIOs have some misunderstandings about backup. One of the misunderstandings is that copy is used instead of backup. In fact, backup is equal to copying and management. Backup can be planned and automated, as well as the storage and logging of historical records. In the case of massive data, if you do not manage the data, it will fall into a vast ocean of data. The second misunderstanding is to replace data backup with system redundancy such as dual servers, disk arrays, and images. It should be pointed out that system redundancy ensures business continuity and high availability of the system. system redundancy cannot replace data backup because it does not prevent man-made damages, malicious attacks, viruses, natural disasters, and man-made disasters, only Backup can ensure data security. The third misunderstanding is that only data files are backed up. Under such conditions, once the system crashes, it will take quite a long time to restore all the data to re-install the operating system and re-install all applications, in the post-WTO era when time equals money, can your customers endure it? Therefore, the correct method is to perform full backup for the network system.

At present, the trend of backup is unattended automated backup, manageability, and catastrophic recovery. These three factors are aimed at the high efficiency of the system, the high availability of data and business.

For different application environments and requirements, HP's backup solutions and products include tape drives, automatic loading of tape drives, and tape libraries to meet user needs at different levels.

　　SMEs-tape drive and single-key disaster recovery

Any enterprise or any information system may have a disaster. But how can we ensure that the impact of the disaster can be easily eliminated? For small and medium-sized enterprises, HP StorageWorks dat, sdlt/DLT, ultrium tape drive products, and HP single-key Disaster Recovery Technology (obdr) are a good choice for disaster recovery and data transmission.

With this technology, once the system fails, IT management personnel can direct the entire system from the tape drive and completely restore the data without re-installing the operating system and applications, easy to use. With OBDR, DR is automatically generated during each backup. No software or CD is required for disaster recovery, and only a small amount of time and technical knowledge is required, recover from a single media. Compared with conventional disaster recovery solutions, the HP single-key disaster recovery solution simplifies the previous four steps into two steps, and the operator is not familiar with computer management. The Administrator only needs to replace the hardware and start it in DR mode. Simply press a key to automatically restore the system. The single-key disaster recovery solution features high reliability, high speed, the most practical, and unattended backup capabilities.

　　Medium-sized data backup applications: automatic loading of tape drives and unattended backup

Automatic loading of tape drives will be a key product for future development in the backup market. HP's automatic loading tape drive Enables automatic backup of a single server and multiple servers. It is an ideal tool for small and medium-sized enterprises and their departments to carry out storage and backup. HP Automatic Tape loading technology is divided into DAT, DLT, LTO and other technologies from the tape technology, respectively for office server backup, Working Group/local network backup and remote network backup, which comprehensively improves the hardware management efficiency, it also provides effective Rack Space to meet users' higher capacity requirements.

Take HP StorageWorks SSL1016 Ultrium 460 as an example. It is a small, highly manageable product that provides tape library features and TB local capacity in a 2U chassis. At the same time, it provides powerful automatic backup and recovery functions for disaster recovery systems, while network-based management allows centralized management of many locations. It is worth mentioning that it provides the library feature at the price of automatic loading of the tape drive.

　　Large database backup: tape library + dp Software

For large enterprises, HP tape libraries with HP OpenView Storage Data Protector 5.1 software will provide backup insurance for data. HP StorageWorks msl5000 series tape libraries provide comprehensive backup and recovery solutions for mid-range and department-level enterprises. HP StorageWorks esl9000 series tape libraries provide highly reliable backup and recovery solutions for high-end enterprise customers' key task data storage needs. Esl9000 series tape libraries are ideal for direct SCSI and SAN environments and provide component-level redundancy, high availability, and enterprise-level capacity in its compact coverage area. They provide unique investment protection, namely multi-unit scalability and a PCI baseboard for future function expansion. ESL 9000 Series tape libraries simplify the management of backup and recovery activities, while providing unique value in data protection requirements.