The DR Series system design uses various data-reduction technologies, including advanced deduplication algorithms, in addition to the generic and custom compression solutions that prove effective across many differing file types. Data deduplication and compression are addressed in the following areas:
- DR Series System — The DR Series system backup and recovery appliances provide both efficient and high-performance disk-based data protection to leverage the advanced deduplication and compression capabilities in the DR Series system software. The DR Series systems provide a key component that performs backup, recovery, and data protection operations.
- Deduplication — This technology eliminates redundant copies of data and in the process it decreases disk capacity requirements and reduces the bandwidth needed for data transfer. Deduplication can be a major asset for companies that are dealing with increasing data volumes and require a means for optimizing their data protection.
- Compression — This technology reduces the size of data that is stored, protected, and transmitted. Compression helps companies improve their backup and recovery times while helping reduce infrastructure and network resource constraints.
In general, DR Series systems are disk-based data protection appliances that offer advanced deduplication and compression capabilities to reduce the time and cost associated with backing up and restoring data. Based on deduplication and compression technology, the DR Series systems eliminate the need to maintain multiple copies of the same data. This lets customers keep more data online longer and reduce the need for tape backup dependency.
Using its deduplication and compression technology, DR Series systems can help achieve an expected data reduction ratio of 15:1. Achieving this reduction in data means that you need fewer incremental storage operations to run and it provides you with a smaller backup footprint. By removing redundant data, DR Series systems deliver fast reliable backup and restore functionality, reduce media usage and power and cooling requirements, and improve your overall data protection and retention costs.
You can extend the benefits of data deduplication across the enterprise as well by using the DR Series system deduplication replication function–to provide a complete backup solution for multi-site environments. With 64:1 deduplicated replication (32:1 for DR4000 and DR4100, 8:1 for DR2000v), up to 64 nodes can be replicated simultaneously to separate, individual containers on one node. The DR Series systems use compression with replication to shrink the data that is needed to be moved across the wire to a container.
Replication can be scheduled based on your settings to occur during non-peak periods. The replication schedule you create can be set and prioritized to ingest data over replication data to ensure the most optimal back up windows based on your needs.
Unlike NFS and CIFS containers, OST and RDS container replication is handled by the Data Management Applications (DMAs) media servers.
The DR Series system supports the 64:1 replication of data (32:1 if on the DR4000 or DR 4100 and 8:1 for the DR2000v), whereby up to 64 source DR Series systems can write data to different individual containers on a single, target DR Series system. This supports, for example, the use case where branch or regional offices can each write their own data to a separate, distinct container on a main corporate DR Series system.
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NOTE: Be aware that the storage capacity of the target DR Series system is directly affected by the number of source systems writing to its containers and by the amount being written by each of the source systems. |
If the source and target systems reside in different Active Directory (AD) domains, then the data that resides on the target DR Series system may not be accessible. When AD is used for authentication for DR Series systems, the AD information is saved with the file. This can serve to restrict user access to the data based on the type of AD permissions that are in place.
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NOTE: This same authentication information is replicated to the target DR Series system when you have replication configured. To prevent domain access issues, ensure that both the target and source systems reside in the same Active Directory domain. |
For a complete list of supported management application, refer to the DR Series System Interoperability Guide.