On 2015/10/30 HP released patch bundle 8.14 for Linux, HP-UX and Windows. The update includes fixes and new features.
It is strongly recommended to read the full description of the bundle.
If you own a valid support contract you can download the patches from https://softwaresupport.hp.com. For login you need the HP Passport account.
Direct link:
– Windows – DPWINBDL_00814 – Patch Bundle
Many customers continue to rely on tape storage to protect their business critical applications and data. The benefit to continue performing classic backup is obvious: Tape storage is cheap compared with backup-to-disk technolgies. In a TCO consideration lower cost per GB and lower energy costs are speaking for an efficient use of tape technologies, today and in the future. Of course, this arguments and the discussion about can only lead a hardware manufacturer developing and offering tape libraries and tape drives. Other manufacturers cannot offer tape and are limited to offer backup-to-disk technology only for backup and recovery, and they have no way to combine the advantages of both technologies. With the products from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), customers are well positioned to implement backup, recovery and archiving needs. HPE offers StoreEver and StoreOnce solutions to connect both worlds and technologies together.
In order to meet the increasing data growth requirements, the LTO tape technology is constantly evolving. And this year it’s that time again – LTO 7 is ready to fulfill the needs of the future. With doubling the capacity per medium it’s then possible to store up to 15 TB (at 2.5: 1 compression). Backup performance will increase up to 750 MB/s and per hour it will be possible to write up to 2.7 TB onto a single media.
Assume you need to use EMC’s Data Domain 2200 with 4 TB usable capacity and assume you could achieve a deduplication ratio of 20:1. In this case the DD2500 would fit onto approx. six LTO 7 media – with less power consumption and lower cost. So why not combining the advantages from deduplication (backup-to-disk) and the advantages of tape storage and get a better integrated solution?
Additional information regarding LTO technology or information regarding the LTO 7 press release can be found here: http://www.lto.org/2015/09/the-lto-program-announces-upcoming-generation-7-specifications-for-licensing/
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Did you know you there is a Data Protector promotion available and you can earn 1,000 (USD or equivalent) in Amazon Gift Cards?
Here is the deal: HP Partners who sell $20,000 (USD or equivalent) of HP Data Protector licenses together with HP StoreOnce, HP StoreEver or HP StoreServ 3PAR can earn the Amazon Gift Cards. The promotion is available in most European countries and it will end on 2015/10/31. To get the prize you have to submit your entries at https://surveys.now.hpe.com/Questions.aspx?id=40174&wp=11163. For more details you may ask your HP Partner Account Manager.
On 2015/08/28 and 2015/09/09 HP released new patches for Linux, HP-UX and Windows. As a requirement you need to have Patch Bundle 8.13 installed or the patches from December 2014 – for details, please see article
https://www.data-protector.org/wordpress/2014/10/data-protector-patch-bundle-8-13/ or https://www.data-protector.org/wordpress/2015/01/data-protector-8-13-patches/. It is strongly recommended to read the full description of each patch.
If you own a valid support contract you can download the patches from https://softwaresupport.hp.com. For login you need the HP Passport account.
Direct link:
– Windows Cell Server – DPWIN_00816
– Windows Media Agent – DPWIN_00817
– Windows Cell Console – DPWIN_00818
– Windows Documentation – DPWIN_00819
– Windows VE Agent – DPWIN_00820
– Linux Cell Server – DPLNX_00397
– Linux Media Agent – DPLNX_00398
– Linux Cell Console – DPLNX_00399
– Linux Documentation – DPLNX_00400
– Linux VE Agent – DPLNX_00401
– HP-UX Cell Server – DPUX_00109
– HP-UX Media Agent – DPUX_00110
– HP-UX Cell Console – DPUX_00111
After I released the article https://www.data-protector.org/wordpress/2015/08/tested-poweronrun-live-migrate-3par-snapshots-smartcache/, some of you asked for a more detailed documentation regarding “Power On and Live Migrate from 3PAR Snapshots or Smartcache”, the new features introduced in Data Protector 9.04. To use Zero Downtime Backup you can refer to the guides ZDBAdmin.pdf and ZDBIntegration.pdf. In addition in the document Integration.pdf on pages 717, 719 and 748 additional information can be found.
A documentation with screenshots for “Power On from 3PAR Snapshots” you can find here: http://www.syncer.de/?p=795. Thanks to Sebastian for the detailed documentation.