HP StoreOnce Backup System Concepts and Configuration Guidelines (BB877-90913, November 2013)

Figure 53 Seeding using physical tape and backup application
2. Copy to tape(s) or a disk using backup application
software on Media Server for NAS devices; only use simple
1. Initial backup to StoreOnce appliance
drag and drop to portable disk This technique is not
possible at Sites A & B unless a media server is present.
4. Copy tapes/disks into target appliance using backup
application software on Media Server (or for portable disks
3. Ship tapes/disks to Data Center site.
only use drag and drop onto NAS share on the StoreOnce
target).
5. Establish replication.
Proceed as follows
1. Perform full system backup to the StoreOnce Backup system at the remote site using the local
media server, e.g. at remote site C. The media server must also be able to see additional
devices such as a physical LTO tape library or a removable disk device configured as a disk
target for backup.
2. Use the backup application software to perform a full media copy of the contents of the
StoreOnce Backup system to a physical tape or removable disk target for backup also attached
to the media server. In the case of removable USB disk drives the capacity is probably limited
to 2 TB, in the case of physical LTO5 media it is limited to about 3 TB per tape, but of course
multiple tapes are supported if a tape library is available. For USB disks, separate backup
targets for disk devices would need to be created on each removable RDX drive because we
cannot span multiple RDX removable disk drives.
3. The media from the remote sites is then shipped (or even posted!) to the data center site.
4. Place the removable media into a library or connect the USB disk drive to the media server
and let the media server at the data center site discover the removable media devices. The
media server at the data center site typically has no information on what is on these pieces
of removal media and we have to make the data visible to the media server at the data center
site. This generally takes the form of what is known as an “import” operation where the
96 Seeding methods in more detail