2 Planning your backup
strategy
In this chapter
This chapter describes backup strategy planning. It focuses on planning Data Protector
cells, performance, and security, as well as backing up and restoring data. The
chapter also discusses basic backup types, automated backup operation, clustering,
and disaster recovery.
It is organized as follows:
“Backup strategy planning” on page 58
“Planning cells” on page 62
“Understanding and planning performance” on page 67
“Planning security” on page 73
“Clustering” on page 79
“Full and incremental backups” on page 91
“Keeping backed up data and information about the data” on page 99
“Backing up data” on page 102
“Automated or unattended operation” on page 110
“Duplicating backed up data” on page 112
“Restoring data” on page 125
“Disaster recovery” on page 128
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