Storware Backup and Recovery
Storware Backup & Recovery provides a generic mechanism for multiple scenarios where VM-level backup may not be enough. With Storware Backup & Recovery you can prepare a custom script or invoke any backup command that produces backup artifacts (or just initiates an external backup process) on a remote host and stores backups to your backup provider.
With the Application backup you can extend your protection capabilities to:
- any remote applications with their own mechanisms,
- hypervisor configuration,
- files on remote hosts (physical, virtual, or containers),
- this includes shares, mounted object-storage buckets, LVM block devices, or virtually anything which can be presented as a file,
- initiating external backup processes such as RMAN.
HOW IT WORKS
There are 2 main concepts that Storware Backup & Recovery uses to execute backups:
- Command Execution Configuration
- Application Definition
Command Execution Configuration
This defines how to perform a backup operation. It describes how to execute a command that produces a backup artifact which Storware Backup & Recovery later stores in a backup provider. Multiple Application definitions share Command Execution Configuration but with different parameter values.
Application Definition
Once you have your command execution configuration defined (or you choose to use the predefined ones provided with Storware Backup & Recovery), you should define the instances of your application.