Find Avamar’s Serial Number via SSH
If you are not at the data center location, and you need to access Avamar’s hardware serial number per node, the following command line will help you to obtain Avamar’s serial number. 1. Login to the...
View ArticleAvamar Components
Avamar Components In an Avamar system, what makes up the system are the following 3 major components. They are Avamar server, Avamar backup clients, and Avamar Administrator. Avamar Server – Client...
View ArticleAvamar Data Deduplication
Data DeduplicationAvamar differs from traditional backup and restore solutions by identifying and storing only unique, sub-file data objects. Redundant data is identified at the source, drastically...
View ArticleAvamar Replication
Avamar replication is a feature that transfers data from a “source” Avamar server to a “destination” Avamar server. All data in the destination server can be directly restored back to primary storage...
View ArticleAvamar RAIN
Avamar supports two basic types of standard Avamar server configurations, which are: – Non-RAIN and – RAIN. Non-RAIN configurations consist of a single stand-alone node. In single node configurations,...
View ArticleAvamar Backup Advantage
A high percentage of data that is retained on backup media by most backup solutions is highly redundant. The typical backup process for most organizations consists of a series of daily incremental...
View ArticleAvamar Data Integrity
Avamar Data Integrity In itself Avamar, data integrity are derived by using checkpoints. What are checkpoints? Checkpoints are system-wide backups taken for the express purpose of assisting with...
View ArticleAvamar Data Erasure
Avamar Data Erasure When you manually delete a backup using Avamar Administrator or you automatically delete a backup when its retention policy expires and garbage collection runs, data is marked as...
View ArticleAvamar Retention Types
Avamar Retention Types Beginning with version 4.0, all scheduled backups stored on the server are automatically and programmatically assigned with one or more of the following retention types by the...
View ArticleAvamar Stripes
Avamar Stripes In an Avamar server, data is stored on storage nodes in “stripes.” Stripes are parity protected files that are approximately 60 MB in size. There are two kinds of stripes in an Avamar...
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