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Update: On 2014/03/25 the support matrices for Data Protector 8.10, 8.01 and 7.03 were updated; please review.

Update: On 2014/02/25 the support matrices for Data Protector 8.10, 8.00 and 7.03 were updated and includes fixes from the January matrices

The support matrices for Data Protector 8.10, 8.00 and 7.03 were updated and can be downloaded from here: http://support.openview.hp.com/selfsolve/manuals (Passport account required). The most important change is the official support for a DP 8.X Cell Server on Windows 2012 R2 (non-Cluster environments).

Data Protector 8.10 has been released. The new version delivers some new features, my favorites are the new advanced scheduler and the file-system backup, which can be resumed. For customers with a valid support contract, the new version can be downloaded here: http://support.openview.hp.com.
With Data Protector 8.1 new licenses are required, for updates from previous versions the “InstantOn” license was added to allow sufficient time to migrate the current licenses using: http://webware.hp.com. Announcement: Starting 01. April 2014 Data Protector 6.2X is no longer sold, on 31. December 2014 DP 6.2X becomes end-of-support; so migrate to the latest version of Data Protector.

New features in Data Protector 8.1 (excerpt) – additional information can be found in the document “Product Announcements, Software Notes, and References”:

• Advanced Scheduler – priority based
• SAP HANA BackInt integration
• Enhancements for Disaster Recovery
• New licenses
• MS Active Directory (LDAP login for GUI)
• File-System backups able to resume (not restart failed objects)
• VMware vSphere 5.5 / vCloud Director 5.5
• VMware vCenter 5.5 Single Item Recovery
• MS SharePoint 2013 + GRE
• DB2 10.1/10.5
• Debian 7.0 DA
• Solaris 11 MA
• AIX 64bit DA/MA
• StoreOnce compression and data-at-rest encryption
• Updated Windows 2012 EADR
• ZDB / IR 3PAR with Linux / HP-UX for SAP / Oracle
• Updated NDMP BlueArc support
• Restart failed objects for VMware backups

BRICK – the new version 1.10 has been released!!! Continue to read here: https://www.data-protector.org/wordpress/brick/.

Update 2013/12/29: the new version v1.10 has been released. For more information please refer to the change log; especially the support for Data Protector 8.10, Linux/Windows and the browser of your choice was added. Please use link above.

Example:

Please comment on page: https://www.data-protector.org/wordpress/brick/.

If you feel your backups runs too long there can be many reasons for that, slow tape drives, a saturated network, etc. Sometimes the clients to backup does not deliver the data as required, maybe the disks are too slow. A good way to to test the performance of a server is using a null device. If you need faster results and no configuration within Data Protector you can test the server performance using the binary vbda. VBDA – Volume Backup Disk Agent – normally reads the data and sent it to the media agent, however you can use VBDA to test the speed of your servers’s disks. With some parameterts a backup is simulated and as a result you get the read performance which would be achieved during the backup.

Example (Windows, Linux/Unix may differ):
"c:\program files\omniback\bin\vbda.exe" -vol /C -trees "/Windows/System32" -out nul -profile. The command starts a backup for volume C:, backups the tree /Windows/system32 (be careful with the separator). The backup will be done to a null device and will not require a configuration in DP beforehand. In addition statistical information is collected with -profile.

See the result as example:

[Normal] From: VBDA@consult-nb06 “” Time: 15.10.2013 08:03:08
STARTING Disk Agent for consult-nb06:/C “”.

[Normal] From: VBDA@consult-nb06 “” Time: 15.10.2013 08:03:51
Backup Profile:

Run Time ……….. 0:00:43
Backup Speed ……. 80,68 MB/s

[Normal] From: VBDA@consult-nb06 “” Time: 15.10.2013 08:03:51
Filesystem Statistics:

Directories …….. 1356
Regular files …… 17477
——————————
Objects Total …… 18833
Total Size ……… 3,39 GB

[Normal] From: VBDA@consult-nb06 “” Time: 15.10.2013 08:03:51
COMPLETED Disk Agent for consult-nb06:/C “”.

time: 43 (sec), tot: 0 (kB), done: 0 (%)