Backup server prerequisites
When IBM® Storage Protect Snapshot is used in an environment with IBM Storage Protect, a backup server is required. This backup server is used to offload the backup workload from the production server to the backup server, and sends the application critical backups to an IBM Storage Protect server. Ensure that the required setting are in place before you install IBM Storage Protect Snapshot on the backup server.
To run the software, the following settings are required on the backup server:
- The user name and group name of the database instance owner on the production server must be available on the backup server. The same user ID (UID) and group ID (GID) must be used.
- A database instance with the same version as the database instance on the production server must be installed on the backup server.
- An Oracle database instance is required when incremental backups that use Oracle RMAN are run. SAP BR*Tools are optional on the backup server.
The IBM Storage Protect for Enterprise Resource Planning client is used by IBM Storage Protect Snapshot to start a subsequent backup to an IBM Storage Protect server, and must be installed and configured on both the production and the backup servers.
IBM Storage Protect backup-archive client is used by this client and must be installed and configured on both the production and the backup servers.
- If the IBM Storage Protect backup-archive client is configured to use the PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE parameter, use the IBM Storage Protect proxy-node capability to avoid authentication errors when the password is reset.
- Create one data node on the IBM Storage Protect server where all IBM Storage Protect clients from all backup and production servers are sending and retrieving data.
- Create one authentication node for each production server and backup server that is configured as proxy node to this data node.