Chapter 1: About Data Protector Express; Backup Basics; Typical Backup And Recovery Operations - HP BB118BV - StorageWorks Data Protector Express Package User Manual

A backup and recovery system is an integral part of a company's data security. The ability to back up and
restore business-critical data quickly and efficiently can mean the difference between survival and failure.
Maintaining backups is often considered a tedious task, and many companies fail to protect their
corporate data at all. Data Protector Express provides users with the capacity to back up and restore data
across a network and the ability to administer a comprehensive backup plan. This section describes basic
concepts of a backup and recovery system and presents how Data Protector Express provides a powerful,
yet cost-effective and easy-to-use, management tool for protecting data on network file or application
servers and PC desktops.

Backup basics

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Backup environment
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Backup basics
Whether your work environment consists of a single computer in a home or small office, several
computers connected to a network server, or hundreds of computers connected to multiple network
servers, a typical data protection plan involves at least the ability to back up and restore business files.
At a minimum, data that cannot be reloaded onto the system from installation disks, network-based
security settings, company-generated databases should all be backed up for easy retrieval in the event of a
data disaster. The important data might be a word processing file, e-commerce transactions, network user
account and password information, and so on.
The data you protect and how long it remains available on storage media might depend on legal
requirements for your industry or your own company policies. Whatever your data storage requirements
might be, you should have a basic understanding of the types of backup operations and your own
computer environment.
typically media loaded in a backup device. The original data remains intact in its current location. During
the backup process, an attribute associated with each file, known as an archive attribute, is altered within
the Data Protector Express Selection tree to indicate that the file was backed up. Archive attributes may
function differently on different operating systems, so the Data Protector Express catalog also tracks file
changes.
Data Protector Express runs backups in one of four backup modes:
A backup is the process of copying a file or folder from its current location to a new location,
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