Understanding CA ARCserve D2D › Features

Features

BACKUP

CA ARCserve D2D provides the following backup features:

• Lets you perform different types of backup jobs, such as full, incremental, or verify.
• Provides volume filtering capability to let you specify to back up only the selected volumes.
  • If the specified backup destination is located on the local volume, a warning message will be displayed to notify you that this volume will not be backed up.
  • If system/boot volume is not selected for backup, a warning message will be displayed to notify you that the backup will not be usable for Bare Metal Recovery (BMR).
• Protects all specified volumes of your machine (except if the volume contains the backup destination).
• Lets you set/change backup schedules (or immediately initiate a customized backup).
• Lets you remotely manage several machines (one at a time).
• Lets you perform backups from both CA ARCserve D2D and CA ARCserve Backup simultaneously.
• Provides a system tray monitor to display status/notification information and perform quick actions.

Block Level Incremental Backups

• Only backs up the blocks on the source volumes that have changed since the last successful backup.
• Significantly reduces the amount of backup data.

  If you have a large file and only change a small portion of this file, CA ARCserve D2D will back up only the changed portion to the incremental backup and not back up the whole file.

• Consumes less disk space and less time.
• Lets you perform more frequent backups, making the backup images more up-to-date (as often as every 15 minutes) for recovery.

Infinite Incremental (I²) Snapshots

• Initially creates one full backup and then intelligently creates incremental snapshot backups forever (after the initial full backup).
• Uses less storage space, performs backups faster, and puts less load on your production servers.
• Can automatically collapse (merge) incremental changes optimizing the use of disk storage.

Application Consistent Backups

• Takes advantage of Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to ensure data consistency for any VSS-aware application.
• Provides recovery of both Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange Server (without performing a full disaster recovery).

Ad-Hoc Backups

An ad-hoc backup is one that is created when the situation makes it necessary, rather than being arranged in advance or being part of a plan.

• Provides you with the flexibility to perform "ad-hoc" backups outside of the scheduled backups.

  For example, if you have repeat schedule for Full, Incremental, and Verify backups and you want to make major changes to your machine, you may want to perform an immediate backup without waiting for the next scheduled backup to occur.

• Provides you with the capability to add a customized (unscheduled) recovery point so that you can roll back to this previous point in time if necessary. 

  For example, if you install a patch or service pack and then discover that it adversely affects the performance of your machine, you may want to roll back to the ad-hoc backup session that does not include it.

Change Backup Destination

• Provides you with the capability to change the backup destination. When the disk space on your destination volume reaches its maximum capacity, CA ARCserve D2D lets you change the destination and continue with full or incremental backups.

  Note: You can also configure email alert notifications for Destination Threshold so that you can be informed if it reaches the specified threshold value.

Export Recovery Points

• Provides you with the capability to export recovery point data and safely store it offsite in case of a catastrophe, or you may want to save your recovery points to multiple locations. In addition if your destination is getting full, you may want to consolidate your backups into a single recovery point which resembles the exact state at that point. When you select a recovery point to export you are not only capturing the backup blocks that were created for that specified point-in-time, but also whatever previous backup blocks are needed to recreate a full and most recent backup image.

Backup Status Monitoring

CA ARCserve D2D provides the capability to monitor:

• Last backup status
• Recovery Points
• Destination capacity
• Protection summary
• Most recent backups
• Overall backup success rate
• License notifications

Job Status Monitoring

CA ARCserve D2D provides the capability to monitor:

• Details about the next scheduled job
• Details about the currently running job

RESTORE

CA ARCserve D2D provides the following restore features:

• Restore data from specific recovery points
• Search/browse to a specific file/folder to restore
• Set the restore destination to an alternate location or server

Types of Restores

CA ARCserve D2D provides three types of restores:

• File-Level Restore

  Restores any backed up files/folders.

• Application Restore

  Restores backed up Microsoft SQL Server/Microsoft Exchange data at the database level.

• Bare Metal Recovery (BMR)
  • Recovers a computer system from "bare metal", and includes the operating system, applications, and data components necessary to rebuild or restore the entire backed up system (for disaster recovery, migration from one server to another).
  • Restores to dissimilar hardware and resolves any hardware differences.
  • Expands and restores to bigger disks if necessary.

Disk Resizing

• During a Bare Metal Recovery, you can restore the image to another disk, and resize the disk partitions if required (without losing any data stored on the drive).
• When restoring to another disk, the capacity of new disk must be the same size or larger than the original disk.

  Note: Disk resizing is for basic disks only, and not for dynamic disks.

REMOTE DEPLOYMENT

After CA ARCserve D2D is installed on a server, you can further deploy it remotely to other servers.