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Deploying HP StoreOnce VSA with HP Data Protector – Part III
In part I of this series I showed you the download and the deployment of the HP StoreOnce VSA. Part II showed you the configuration of two libraries and the connection of the backup server to this two...
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Configuring HP StoreOnce VSA and HP Data Protector for HP StoreOnce Catalyst
HP StoreOnce Catalyst is an enterprise-wide deduplication algorithm which is used in HP StoreOnce appliances, HP StoreOnce VSA and HP Data Protector. With StoreOnce Catalyst, deduplicated data can be...
View ArticleData Protector: Exchange 2010 database recovery from copy session fails
The recovery of an Exchange mailbox using a recovery database is usually no big deal. Simply restore the database, create a recovery database and recover the mailbox or items from the mailbox....
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HP StoreOnce Enterprise Manager v1.3 installation fails on non-English OS
Sometimes the easy jobs seems to be the hardest. Especially if you have to deal with high-quality software… As part of a project I had to install and configure a HP StoreOnce 4500 appliance in...
View ArticleHP Data Protector: Can’t delete old DCBF directories
It seems that today is my debugging day… Yesterday I performed a Data Protector update from 7.03 to 8.13. During this update, the Data Protector IDB is migrated to another database format. Last night...
View ArticleHP Data Protector: JSONizer error when restoring from StoreOnce
After installing the Data Protector patch bundle 8.13, you may ran into this error when trying to restore data from a HP StoreOnce appliance. [Normal] From: RSM@dpcm.lab.local "" Time: 04.12.2014...
View ArticleHP offers 1TB StoreOnce VSA for free
A free StoreOnce VSA, like the well known 1 TB StoreVirtual VSA? That would be too cool to be real. But it is real! Since February, HP offers a free 1 TB version of their StoreOnce VSA. I totally...
View ArticleSafe (or safer) than backup to tape: HP StoreOnce
When talking to SMB customers, most of them don’t want to talk about their backup strategy. It’s paradox: They know that data loss can ruin their business, but they don’t want to invest money into a...
View ArticleVMware publishes patch for ESXi 6.0 CBT bug (KB2114076)
Today, VMware has published the long-awaited patch for the ESXi 6.0 CBT bug. This patch is the result of a problem, which is described in KB2114076 (Backing up a virtual machine with Change Block...
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HP StoreOnce: Avoid special characters in NAS share description
While I was playing with my shiny, new HP StoreOnce VSA in my lab, I noticed a curious behavior. I created a NAS share for some tests with Veeam Backup & Replication. Creating a new share is...
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Error 1325: VBRCatalog is not a valid short file name
While upgrading a rather old (but very stable) Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1 installation to 8.0 Update 3 (with intermediate step to 6.5), I ran into a curious error. Right after the welcome...
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HP StoreOnce Backup System software version 3.13.0 is available
Since september 2015, the latest version of HP StoreOnce backup system software is available. The latest release 3.13.0 is available for HP StoreOnce VSA, 6500, B6200 multi-node and all single node...
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Using HP StoreOnce as target for Windows Server Backup (WSB)
Some days ago, I blogged about the new HP StoreOnce software release 3.13.0. This release included several fixes. One fix wasn’t mentioned by me, although it’s interesting. Fixed issue where Windows...
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Consider the Veeam Network transport mode if you use NFS datastores
I’m using Veeam Backup & Replication (currently 8.0 Update 3) in my lab environment to backup some of my VMs to a HP StoreOnce VSA. The VMs reside in a NFS datastore on a Synology DS414slim NAS,...
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HPE Data Protector & StoreOnce Catalyst: Single Object per Store Media
HPE Data Protector stores multiple backup objects on a single Catalyst store item. A backup object can be a volume, a mount point, a database or a virtual machine. You can have multiple backup objects...
View ArticleData Protector: Exchange backup failes because of database lock
Today I had a customer call, where a Exchange 2010 backup repeatedly failed. HPE Data Protector was unable to create a differential or incremental backup. For each database, the following error was...
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HPE Data Protector VE Integration/ VMware best practice
The Virtual Environment Integration (VE Integration) provides protection of VMs in virtual server environments. It is used o integrate HPE Data Protector with various virtualization environments,...
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HPE Data Protector 9.05: SAN backups failing back to NBDSSL
Last year in December, I updated the first customer from HPE Data Protector 9.04 to 9.05. Immediately after the first tests I noticed, that backups were made using the NBDSSL transport. I expected...
View ArticleEnd of support for HPE Data Protector 7.0x & 8.0x
Today I got an email from HPE, which has informed me of the imminent end of support for HPE Data Protector 7.0x 8.0x. As of June 30, 2016, HPE will offer no new updates or patches for Data Protector...
View ArticleData Protector: Copy sessions to encrypted devices fail after update to 9.07
Recently, a customer has informed me, that copy sessions to encrypted devices failed, after he has made an update to Data Protector 9.07. The copy sessions failed with this error: |Critical| From:...
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