HP Data Protector Express Single Server
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Upgrading Data Protector Express Single Server Edition to Data Protector Express

Why?

1. Network backup: Data Protector Express has Agents that can be added to consolidate the backup of all machines on your network and share backup devices and manage data protection centrally to make your single server solution a multi-server solution.
2. Encrypt backups to any device: With Data Protector Express Single Server Edition you can have the security of encrypted backups when writing to devices with an encryption capability such as HP LTO-4 Ultrium tape drives. With Data Protector Express you can encrypt backups before they are written to the backup device expanding your choice of secure backup targets.
3. Unlimited D2D backup capacity: Upgrading to Data Protector Express removes the 36GB limit for D2D backup in Data Protector Express Single Server Edition allowing you to make much more extensive use of the D2D backup capability (Data Protector Express Virtual Libraries).
4. Increased backup scheduling frequency: The use of D2D backup allows more frequent backups to reduce exposure to data loss. Data Protector Express Single Server Edition allows daily backups. Once upgrade to Data Protector Express, you can backup hourly or even each minute.
5. Protect Windows notebooks and desktops: Upgrading to Data Protector Express includes unlimited licenses for scheduled backups of Windows notebooks and desktops.
6. Added performance: Data Protector Express allows up to 8 data streams to be written or read from a backup device in parallel, for improved performance. Data Protector Express Single Server Edition supports 4 parallel data streams.
7. Extended tape drive support: Data Protector Express Single Server Edition supports HP tape drives, HP tape autoloaders and HP tape libraries. Data Protector Express additionally supports other vendors’ backup devices.
8. Open file backup on Windows: Data Protector Express includes support for Microsoft Volume Copy Shadow Service (VSS) on NTFS allowing open files to be protected.
9. Rights to version upgrades: The support included with Data Protector Express has rights to new versions of Data Protector Express.
10. Add options and functional extensions: Once Data Protector Express Single Server Edition is upgraded to Data Protector Express options and functional extensions can be added for added protection and scalability. These include; online application backup, D2Any2Any backup and recovery and multi-drive library support. See the Data Protector Express options.

How?

• Register your copy of Data Protector Express Single Server Edition and enter the free permanent license key during the installation.
• Purchase HP part number BB117BT – HP Data Protector Express upgrade from Data Protector Express Single Server Edition. This provides a significant discount off the regular buy price of Data Protector Express.
• Register the upgrade to Data Protector Express and enter the new license key into the Data Protector Express GUI.
• You can now use all the functionality of Data Protector Express. The Data Protector Express Bare Metal Disaster Recovery option, included with Data Protector Express Single Server Edition, remains in use. All jobs and settings you created with Data Protector Express Single Server Edition are still in use.
• Add options to extend protection to additional machine and add functionality.