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How do Avamar backups work?
Avamar software quickly and efficiently protects VMware Infrastructure environments by reducing the size of backup data within and across virtual machines —using agents in the virtual machines. Unlike traditional backup solutions, Avamar can deduplicate the data stored in virtual disks (. vmdk files).
How does Avamar backup VMware?
VMware Image Backup uses a proxy server to handle backup processing. Using VADP, Avamar can back up VMware virtual machines without using backup agents inside each virtual machine.
What is an Avamar server?
Avamar is a deduplication backup and recovery software/hardware system with a client-side global deduplication technology. Enabling you to delete redundant backup data on a client before storing data.
What is the difference between data Domain and Avamar?
Avamar is fast, efficient backup and recovery through a complete software and hardware solution. EMC Data Domain deduplication storage systems continue to revolutionize disk backup, archiving, and disaster recovery with high-speed, inline deduplication.
Can Avamar backup a powered off VM?
Avamar integrates with VMware VADP (vStorage API for Data Protection) to provide image level backups. Backup can occur while the virtual machines are powered on or off. Since the backup is handled by a proxy, CPU cycles of the target virtual machines are not used.
What is avamar for?
Features. Dell EMC Avamar enables fast, efficient backup and recovery through its integrated variable-length deduplication technology. Avamar is optimized for fast, daily full backups of physical and virtual environments, NAS servers, enterprise applications, remote offices and desktops/laptops.
How to backup and restore files in Avamar?
What is Avamar backup? 1 Launch and log in to the Avamar Administrator console. 2 Click Backup and Restore launch. 3 Select the Restore tab. 4 Expand vCenter server client and click Virtual Machines. 5 Select the client that contains the files that you want to restore. 6 Select the date to use when restoring the files. More …
What do you need to know about Avamar server?
Avamar helps to solve these challenges by providing client-side global deduplication, storing backups on disk, centralizing backup administration and replicating backup data between sites. Traditional backup systems that do not use deduplication store multiple copies of the same data on backup media. Secondly, what is deduplication in Avamar?
What kind of backup is Dell EMC Avamar?
Dell EMC Avamar is a hardware and software data backup product.
When to use the Windows VSS plugin in Avamar?
The Windows VSS plugin is similarly called when a backup can call a Windows snapshot for a backup. When you create a VMware image backup via an Avamar proxy, Avamar uses the vCenter SDDK to create a snapshot, mount it to the proxy, then run backup against the snapshot volume.