Suspend Method; Incremental Backup (Mixed Mode) - HP Data Protector A.06.11 Integration Manual

Figure 12 Incremental backup (mixed mode)
DP snapshot1 and DP snapshot3 remain on the snapshot tree to track changes made
since the last full and the last backup respectively.
A subsequent differential backup progresses in the same way as an incremental
session described in
• DP snapshot2 is removed before DP snapshot3 is created.
• Instead of changes made between DP snapshot2 and DP snapshot3, changes
made between DP snapshot1 and DP snapshot3 are backed up.

Suspend method

The suspend operation saves the current memory state of a virtual machine to a file
and puts the virtual machine offline. This functionality is similar to the Hibernate power
mode in Windows operating systems. Note that the suspend operation is supported
by all virtual machines. Therefore, this is the only backup method that can be used
if your virtual machines do not support the snapshot operation.
During a Suspend backup, Data Protector suspends the virtual machine (if it is online)
and then copies the virtual machine files to Data Protector media. If specified, the
memory state is also backed up. After the backup, the virtual machine is powered
on (if it was online), the memory is read from the memory file, and the virtual machine
resumes the original state.
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