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Determining disk space requirements – HP XP Performance Advisor Software User Manual

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Where, target-path is the location, such as a network drive or shared file system where
you want to save the backup files.

You can also backup data for an XP or a P9000 disk array DKC or a particular duration. The
following are the commands:

%HPSS_HOME%\bin\backuputility -backup target-path —dkc

%HPSS_HOME%\bin\backuputility -backup target-path —time

date and time>

The format for the start and end date, and time is as follows: DD-MM-YYYY

NOTE:

If you have saved the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor database on a different location
during installation, navigate to that location.

The target-path that you specify must not include space in the file location path.

To restore your files, enter:

%HPSS_HOME%\bin\backuputility -restore target-path

Where, target-path is the location where you want to restore the files.

You can also restore data for an XP or a P9000 disk array DKC, or a particular duration. The
following are the commands:

%HPSS_HOME%\bin\backuputility -restore target-path —dkc

%HPSS_HOME%\bin\backuputility -restore target-path —time

date and time>

The format for the start and end date, and time is as follows: DD-MM-YYYY

Related Topics

“Automatically increasing the database size (AutoGrow)” (page 140)

“Manually increasing the database size” (page 141)

“Manually purging the data” (page 143)

“Purging older data” (page 143)

“Automatically purging data” (page 144)

“Creating and viewing Export DB CSV files” (page 146)

“Archiving data” (page 157)

“Deleting logs for archival and import activities” (page 162)

“Migrating data to another management station” (page 163)

Determining disk space requirements

Use the following formula to determine the disk space requirements for HP XP P9000 Performance
Advisor on a day basis. The factors that influence the output are the number of arrays, LDEVs,
ports, DKC components, performance data collection, and collection frequency:

Free_Space (MB/day for one array) = [(SECONDS_PER_DAY /

Ldev_Collection_frequency) * LDEVs * Ldev_Space ] + [(SECONDS_PER_DAY

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