Licensing; What Is Obdr; Important Guidelines; Media - HP BB118BV - StorageWorks Data Protector Express Package User Manual

Licensing

The license enables the wizard that allows you to create bootable media. You require a separate license
for each machine that will use this feature.
If you have purchased a tape drive that supports One-Button Disaster Recovery, the Data Protector
Express software supplied with the tape drive includes the disaster recovery option for the machine to
which the tape drive is directly attached. The license permits installation on a single machine only and
supports both tape-based (automatic) and optical-based (a separate step is required to create bootable
media) disaster recovery. If you subsequently upgrade Data Protector Express software, the disaster
recovery option is retained for the local machine.
Data Protector Express does not support remote disaster recovery. It only saves recovery information for
the local system. For example, if the backup device is connected to Machine1 and you make a remote
backup of Machine2, the media will contain disaster recovery boot information for Machine1, not
Machine2. You can use the media to boot Machine1, you cannot use it to boot Machine2.
To perform disaster recovery on Machine2, you must purchase and install the disaster recovery option on
the second machine. If you wish to boot from tape, you require either a Media Sever license or a separate
tape drive with its own bundled software.
One-Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR) is a firmware feature that is supported on some tape drives,
which enables the tape drive to act like a bootable CD-ROM when it is put into Disaster Recovery mode.
When you create a full backup on an OBDR tape drive, $product automatically makes the media
bootable. When you run One-Button Disaster Recovery, (normally by a combination of power cycling
with the Eject button held down), your tape drive goes into a special Disaster Recovery mode that enables
it to restore your operating system and reboot from the most recent backup cartridge.
This means that you only need the tape drive and the last full backup media for Disaster Recovery. The
whole backup can often be run from a single piece of media, making the restore much simpler to run. All
drivers for the tape drive are configured and loaded already for backup on the bootable media With a CD
or DVD you usually need multiple CD/DVDs, because the full backups are too big for a single piece of

media.

The OBDR tape drive must be attached to the system at the time when the full backup is created, for Data
Protector Express to make the media bootable. If you create the backup on a non-OBDR tape, you cannot
make the media bootable later in the same way that you can create a bootable CD or DVD from the Data
Protector Express wizard.

Important guidelines

The Data Protector Express disaster recovery agent can be prepared using CD or DVD media and other
devices, depending on your computer configuration. To make your disaster recovery process as easy as
possible, please note the following:
Data Protector Express rewrites most system configuration information to the media each time it
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overwrites the media during backup jobs. Therefore, when making a full backup to be used for
disaster recovery, you should select Overwrite all media on the backup job's Options page.