Backup Performance and Options
High Performance CDP Backup:
Shrink your backup windows. The first time your data protection policy runs, it will perform an initial replica of your data. After the initial replica, R1Soft CDP stores block level deltas, leading to shorter backup windows and reduced disk I/O compared to traditional file based full and incremental backups.
Portable Storage Backups: Your backups are truly portable with CDP Portable Disk Safe® technology. Move your Disk Safe to a new location, open it with another CDP installation or even copy it to a USB drive.
Multi-Point Replication: Efficiently make multiple backup replicas of your servers. Both on-site and off-site or redundant on-site copies of your recovery points are possible.
Point in time snapshots: CDP’s Linux device filter driver takes a consistent point-in-time open file snapshot.
Powerful file excludes: Browse your file system and select any combination of files and folders to be excluded from your data protection policy. Add advanced rule exclude rules using patterns to exclude only certain file types.
Innovative Web interface: In addition to policy management and reporting, you can browse, download, and restore files from your recovery points using an easy to use interface. You can also see the detailed progress of replication and restore jobs as they run.
Industrial Strength Storage: Archive up to 64TB of recovery points per disk. On-disk journaling passes the ACID test and recovers from crashes and product failure.
Data Retention Policy: Define a replication goal (for example, every 15 minutes) and how many recovery points you will retain. Old recovery points are merged and their storage is recycled.
Enterprise Management Features
Recovery Point Archiving: Corporate and regulatory requirements often require the archiving of data at certain intervals (for example, monthly or annually). Your archiving policy can help you ensure your retention requirements are supported.
Hardware
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Hardware
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Requirements
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Physical Memory
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Minimum 1GB (2 GB+ Recommended)
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Free Disk Space
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Minimum 5 GB (10 GB+ Recommended) for CDP Installation
Note: Replication and file restore reports are stored in the installation directory and storage space required depends on how long reporting history is retained and how frequently policies and file restores run.
Recommended 15%+ free space on protected drives to maintain point-in-time snapshots during replication
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Primary Storage Types
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Directly Attached Storage
Including:
IDE, SATA, SCSI, SAS, ISCSI, Fibre Channel,
Dynamic Disks (Software RAID), Hardware RAID
Solid State Drives (SSD)
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File Systems
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NTFS (512 byte - 64 KB cluster sizes)
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Virtualization
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MS Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer 5, Xen Source Hypervisor, VMWare, MS Virtual Server
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Disk Safe Locations
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Directly Attached Storage, Network Attached Storage
Including:
IDE, SATA, SCSI, SAS, ISCSI, Fibre Channel,
Dynamic Disks (Software RAID), Hardware RAID
Solid State Drives (SSD)
Windows Network Shares, CIFS
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Disk Safe Storage
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Minimum 1x Primary Storage* (Recommended 2-4x Primary Storage)
*with compression enabled
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Windows Operating System
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Windows Product
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Edition
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Windows Server 2008 R2
64-bit (x64)
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R2 Enterprise, R2 Standard, R2 Datacenter, R2 Web Server, R2 Storage Server, R2 Server Foundation
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Windows Server 2008
32-bit (x86) & 64-bit (x64)
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Enterprise, Standard, Datacenter, Web Server, Storage Server, Server Foundation, Small Business Server
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
32-bit (x86) & 64-bit (x64)
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One install protects all guests
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Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
32-bit (x86) & 64-bit (x64)
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One install protects all guests
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Windows Server 2003
(SP2+)
32-bit (x86) & 64-bit (x64)
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Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, Web Edition, Datacenter, Storage Server, Small Business Server
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Virtualization
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Technology
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Physical Server Install
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Guest (Virtual Machine) Install
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MS Hyper-V
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Yes protects all VHDs (Virtual Machines) with one install using the MS Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) Hyper-V Writer
Note: R1Soft recommends running the latest service packs and Hyper-V hot fixes to get critical Hyper-V VSS patches from MS
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Yes can optionally be installed inside of guest VMs. This is only required for Linux guests.
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Citrix XenServer 5
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No
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Install into guest VMs (domU)
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Xen Source Hypervisor
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No
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Install into guest VMs (domU)
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VMWare ESXi
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No
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Install into guest VMs
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VMWare Server
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No
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Install into guest VMs
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VMWare Workstation
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No
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Install into guest VMs
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Parallels Virtuozzo
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Yes protects all Virtual Machines with one install using the MS Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) Virtuozzo Writer
Note: the Virtuozzo VSS Writer has a known issue, it can fail when VMs are disabled
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Yes can optionally be installed inside of guest VMs.
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Web Browsers (Web-based Interface)
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Browser
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Versions
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Chrome
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11.x
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Firefox
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5.x, 6.x
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Internet Explorer
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8, 9
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Efficient Backup Storage
Virtual Full Backups mean unique disk blocks are stored only one time in your backup storage, even across thousands of recovery points. Keep more recovery points longer and save space over your existing full or incremental backups.
Disk Safe Encryption
AES-256 Disk Safe Encryption can be enabled at time of creation of Disk Safes for your backup data. This aids in the protection of data stored in the CDP Server, and in protection of the data over the network.
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