HP Data Protector 6.0 Software Object Consolidation: "Best Practices"

Overview

HP Data Protector Software A.06.00 introduces an advanced backup solution called synthetic full backup. This solution enables to create synthetic full backups and virtual full backups with an operation called object consolidation allowing implementing an incremental forever backup strategy. The incremental forever paradigm means that except for the first backup where a full backup is performed, only incremental backups are executed. This concept presents the most efficient way of backups; only the changed data is backed up. This paper provides information on how to use and configure the object consolidation feature introduced in HP Data Protector Software version 6.0 effectively.