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100 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as a CIFS or VTL Backup Target on CommVault Simpana |
April 2015
B Glossary
RDA : Rapid Data Access, Dell proprietary technology for faster data access.
Dedupe Backup : In this mode Deduplication is done on the Client and then the deduplicated
packets are sent to DR Series System.
Passthrough Backup : In this mode Deduplication is done on DR Series System after data is
transferred from Clients and backup media server.
Synthetic backup:
A synthetic backup is identical to a regular full backup in terms of data, but
it is created when data is collected from a previous, older full backup and assembled with
subsequent incremental backups.
Virtual Synthetic Backup/Optimized synthetic Backup:
A synthetic backup that avoids the
need to move data across the network. The media server tells the storage server which full and
incremental images to use to create the synthetic image.
DMA: Data Management Application such as NetVault: Backup
CIFS: Common Internet File System
NFS: Network File System
VTL: Virtual Tape Library
iSCSI: Internet Small Computer System Interface
FQDN: Fully Qualified Domain Name (Host name and domain)