Maximizing Performance with HP Data Protector 6.0 Advanced Backup to Disk

White Paper Published By: Hewlett-Packard

This white paper discusses performance tests results for HP Data Protector 6.0 software and the Advanced Backup to Disk feature in a Windows 2003 environment.

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hp data protection, data protection, backup, recovery, storage, backup and recovery

Published:	May 13, 2008
Type:	White Paper
Length:	42 pages

Maximizing Performance with HP Data
Protector 6.0 Advanced Backup to Disk
Executive summary............................................................................................................................... 3Objective and target audience.............................................................................................................. 4Introducing HP Data Protector 6.0 software ............................................................................................ 4File library....................................................................................................................................... 4Object copy .................................................................................................................................... 4Basics of backup performance............................................................................................................... 5Disk-to-Disk to-Tape (D2D2T) data protection architecture......................................................................... 7Use cases........................................................................................................................................ 8Configuration...................................................................................................................................... 9Test environment overview ................................................................................................................ 9HP ProLiant DL380 G3 server ............................................................................................................ 9Primary Disk Array-HP StorageWorks MSA1000 ............................................................................ 10Secondary Disk Array-HP StorageWorks MSA1500 ........................................................................ 11RAID 0 and one logical array ...................................................................................................... 12RAID 0 and four logical arrays..................................................................................................... 13RAID 1 and one logical array ...................................................................................................... 14RAID 1+0 and three logical arrays ............................................................................................... 15RAID 5 and two logical arrays..................................................................................................... 16SAN infrastructure.......................................................................................................................... 17Tape drive..................................................................................................................................... 18HP Data Protector 6.0 software........................................................................................................ 20Internal Database (IDB) logging level ............................................................................................ 21File library................................................................................................................................. 22File system tree walk................................................................................................................... 24Test data........................................................................................................................................... 25HPCreateData ............................................................................................................................... 25Typical files ................................................................................................................................... 25Small files ..................................................................................................................................... 26HPReadData.................................................................................................................................. 27Library and Tape Tools ................................................................................................................... 28Results.............................................................................................................................................. 30Read and write tests ................................................... [download for more]

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