Achieving Off-Site Backup; Configuration For Off-Site Backup And Recovery; Configuration Diagram; How This Configuration Works For Off-Site Backup - HP StorageWorks P4000 User Manual

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Achieving off-site backup

Rather than creating tape backups and then transporting them to a secure off-site location, you can

use Remote Copy to create remote snapshots in an off-site location. Then, optionally, you can create

tape backups at the off-site location.

To use remote snapshots for off-site tape backup, create remote snapshots for access by your tape

backup application:

Create remote volumes in your backup location.

Configure your backup application to access the remote snapshots.

Configure schedules to create remote snapshots in the designated off-site locations. If your applic-

ation server uses multiple volumes that must be in sync, use a script to quiesce the application

before creating remote snapshots.

[Optional] Create routine tape backups of the remote snapshots.

Figure 17 Off-site backup and recovery example configuration

Depending on how long you retain the copies of the remote snapshots, you can retrieve data directly

from recent remote snapshots rather than using tape backups. Otherwise, retrieve data as you normally

would from the tape backup.

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