Introduction and Backup Types
What is a backup?
In simple terms, a backup is a copy of data saved and stored in a location other than the original one, which can be used to restore the original data in case of a software or hardware failure resulting in data loss.
Our Catalogic DPX solution features several types of backup to suit your business needs and allow for efficient data recovery should you need one.
Before backing up any of your data, you need to understand what backup type you should use. Catalogic DPX offers several backup types, as specified below:
Catalog Backup is a special mode for backing up the Catalog, which is the DPX Master Server metadata container. For more information about Catalog Backup, see Catalog Backup.
Note. For all backup types, sparse files on Linux are not treated as sparse files during backup or restore.
Backup jobs
To run a backup of any kind in Catalogic DPX, you need to define a backup job first. You can set backup source, destination, encryption, and job notification options, or use the default values, depending on the specific backup type. The default parameters can be customized to facilitate the job definition process for new jobs.
The topics below describe setting source and destination job options and other parameters for different backup types. The setting process and particular functionalities available may differ depending on the interface you are using. Currently, Catalogic DPX offers access either through the web (HTML5-based) interface from your browser or through the desktop (Java-based) application requiring a Java environment installed on the machine you are accessing the Catalogic DPX from. The desktop application is older and will be deprecated in the future. The web interface is continuously developed and currently supports all typical Catalogic DPX functionalities.