Catalogic DPX Archive for Agentless Backup with Catalogic vStor

The DPX Archive feature enables long term archiving to media for an agentless DPX Data Protection job to vStor storage. Recovery from DPX Archive is needed when an Agentless Restore job is unable to restore the backup instance from vStor storage.

With DPX Archive, you can define a job such that after an agentless backup to vStor runs, an archive task from the vStor to media runs, providing double protection for the contents of that backup.

Note that invocation of the DPX Archive Restore job differs between agentless and agent-based environments. In an agentless environment, you initiate the recovery from archive by using the Restore from Media Wizard, and then complete the recovery by using the Agentless VMware Restore Wizard.

As a prerequisite to running DPX Archive with vStor, a DPX client must be deployed as a TCP/IP node on the vStor server. The resolvable node name (hostname or IP address) of that DPX client must be identical to the resolvable node name (hostname or IP address) of the vStor server, enabling DPX to recognize the connection between the two.

DPX Archive is sometimes referred to as Double Protection, disk-to-disk-to-tape, cloud offload, or archive to media.

Following are considerations for DPX Archive for Agentless Backups with vStor:

• DPX Archive for Agentless backups is only supported for vStor backup destinations. It is not supported for NetApp or OSS destinations.

• The media device or tape library must be SCSI- or Fibre-channel attached to a device server, ideally the DPX vStor appliance. DiskDirectory is also supported. For incremental or differential archiving purposes, you can use cloud storage as well.

• Every DPX Archive backup is a full base Image backup, which, if run frequently, can use considerable space on the destination tapes. Therefore, it may be a good practice to schedule and run your DPX Archive jobs less frequently than their associated DPX Agentless Data Protection jobs.