BRICK – Backup Related Information Collector and Keeper – is a tool designed for HP Data Protector enviroments, to document the Backup & Recovery environment and support the process of opening service requests with HP support. BRICK collects relevant information of the Backup & Recovery environment and displays the information in a lucid and comprehensible way.

Summary:

BRICK is used for documenting a HP Data Protector environment. BRICK offers a compact user interface with information clearly displayed. The new version covers even more topics of a Backup & Recovery environment that is already well documented.

Product name: BRICK

Version: v1.10

Release: 30.12.2013

BRICK – product data sheet

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BRICK – product data sheet

Table of contents - BRICK product data sheet

What is covered within this product data sheet?

What is BRICK? ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 3

Insights into BRICK .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3

BRICK in detail .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4

Reports ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5

Additional information ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6

What is BRICK?

BRICK stands for “Backup Related Information Collector and Keeper”. BRICK supports HP Data Protector Administrators in documenting the Backup & Recovery environment. Brick can also be used when opening service requests (Support Case), providing a minimum subset of information needed.

BRICK is free of charge, there are no costs associated with using the tool and no license is required to activate or run the tool. The software runs on Data Protector for Microsoft Windows and Linux (RedHat / SLES) environments and is supported for the HP Data Protector versions 6.11, 6.20, 6.21, 7.0, 7.03, 8.00 und 8.10, even if you have configured the cell in cluster-aware mode. A port to HP-UX is planned for 2014.

Insights into BRICK

The screenshots below shows a sample result from a BRICK report.

BRICK - main screen

BRICK - details

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BRICK in detail

BRICK collects information about the Backup & Recovery environment:

Data Protector: configuration, internal database checks, installed patches, installed licenses, DP standard reports, addition information from IDB, IDB queries, libraries and devices, media, StoreOnce, backups and schedules, copy jobs and schedules, File versions and additional information.

Advanced Reports: sessions in internal database, backup results and success rate, deduplication rate and more reports.

Microsoft Windows: Information related to the operating system, user and groups, event logs, services, processes, installed drivers, disk and volumes.

Hardware: information about the hardware and attached devices.

Network: information about the network configuration.

SAN: information about attached HBA’s.

Support: debug files, Support SSO.

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Reports

The following screenshots are examples of the reports included in BRICK.

BRICK – product data sheet

Additional information

BRICK Homepage: http://www.data-protector.org/wordpress/brick/

HP Data Protector Homepage: http://www.hp.com/go/dataprotector

Enterprise Backup Solution Guide: http://www.hp.com/go/ebs

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