DL4300 Appliance
Glossary
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remote Core
A remote Core represents an Rapid Recovery Core that is accessed by a non-Core machine using the Local
Mount Utility or the Central Management Console.
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replication
Replication is the process of copying recovery points from one Rapid Recovery Core and transmitting them
to another Rapid Recovery Core for disaster recovery purposes. The process requires a paired source-target
relationship between two or more Cores. Replication is managed on a per-protected-machine basis. Any machine
(or all machines) protected or replicated on a source Core can be configured to replicate to a target Core. It is the
recovery points that are copied to the target Core.
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repository
A repository is a collection of base image and incremental snapshots captured from the machines protected on a
Rapid Recovery Core. Repositories must be created on fast primary storage devices. The storage location for a
DVM repository can be local to the Core machine (in which case it is hosted on a supported Windows OS only). It
can use direct-attached storage, a storage area network, or an appropriately rated network-attached server.
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REST APIs
Representational State Transfer (REST) is a simple stateless software architecture designed for scalability.
Rapid Recovery uses this architecture for its Application Program Interfaces (APIs) to automate and customize
certain functions and tasks. There is a separate set of REST APIs for Core functionality and for protected machine
(agent) functionality.
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restore
The process of restoring one or more storage volumes on a machine from recovery points saved on the Rapid
Recovery Core is known as performing a restore. This was formerly known as rollback.
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retention
Retention defines the length of time the backup snapshots of protected machines are stored on the Rapid
Recovery Core. Retention policy is enforced on the recovery points through the rollup process.
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rollup
The rollup process is an internal nightly maintenance procedure that enforces the retention policy by collapsing
and eliminating dated recovery points. Rapid Recovery reduces rollup to metadata operations only.
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seeding
In replication, the initial transfer of deduplicated base images and incremental snapshots of protected agents,
which can add up to hundreds or thousands of gigabytes of data. Initial replication can be seeded to the target
core using external media, which is useful for large sets of data or sites with slow links.
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server cluster
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SharePoint backup
