Preparing For Disaster Recovery; What Must Be Backed Up - HP Data Protector A.06.11 Integration Manual

Preparing for disaster recovery

To do a disaster recovery, you need backups of the following VMware objects:
Table 10 What must be backed up
VMware objects
ESX Server console
VirtualCenter
configuration database
(applicable only for
VirtualCenter
environments)
VMware virtual
machines
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How to back up
1. Ensure that the Data Protector Disk Agent component is
installed on all the ESX Server systems.
2. In the Backup context of the Data Protector GUI, right-click
Filesystem and click Add backup to create a backup
specification of the filesystem type. In the Source page of the
backup specification, select ESX Server consoles of all ESX
Server systems.
For details on what to back up, see the topic "ESX Server
Configuration Backup and Restore procedure" at
kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/microsite.do.
3. Start a backup using the newly created backup specification.
The VirtualCenter configuration database can be an Oracle
database or Microsoft SQL Server database. To back up the
database, use the corresponding Data Protector integration. For
example, if it is an Oracle database, follow these steps:
1. Ensure that the Data Protector Oracle Integration
component is installed on the VirtualCenter Server system.
2. In the Backup context of the Data Protector GUI, right-click
Oracle Server and click Add backup to create a backup
specification of the Oracle type. In Application database,
type the name of the VirtualCenter configuration database.
Continue with the backup specification creation as described
in the HP Data Protector integration guide for Oracle and
SAP.
3. Start a backup using the newly created backup specification.
Back up the virtual machines as described in this chapter.
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