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BRANCH OFFICE CONSOLIDATION WITH THE DELL POWERVAULT DL2000 –
POWERED BY COMMVAULT SIMPANA REPLICATION
AtypicalRemoteOfficeBackupsolutionisshownintheillustration.Softwareis
deployedonaMediaAgentlocatedataremoteoffice,andaMediaAgentlocated
atthecentralizeddatacenter.Thus,thereisnoimpactonendusersandclient
computers,sincealloperationsinvolveMediaAgentsonly.Deploymentand
configurationoccuronce,andthesolutioncontinuestofunctionwithoutany
furtheroperatorintervention.Oncetheinitialtransferofdatahasbeen
completedatthetimeofdeployment,alldatareplicationafterthatpointwill
involveonlydatathathaschangedontheMediaAgent,similarinconceptto
IncrementalBackups.This
isdifferentfromanAuxiliaryCopyoperation,whichis
similarinconcepttoFullBackups,copyingallselecteddataeverytimeitruns,and
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