IU's Data Protection Service (DPS)
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Overview
Indiana University's Data Protection Service (DPS) provides a fast, reliable, and efficient data management solution for IU's Intelligent Infrastructure (II) environment.
DPS integrates with IU's enterprise-level virtualization and SAN infrastructures to create crash-consistent snapshots of the VMs. Each VM will have copies of these snapshots stored at both IU-owned and -managed Data Centers (that is, both in Indianapolis and Bloomington), allowing for full data redundancy.
Levels of protection
DPS provides two levels of protection to choose from: All Disk backups and OS Disk backups. You can opt out of any level of protection.
All Disk backups
- Provides full VM protection
- Lets clients self-service file-level recoveries from any of the 31 days of available backups
- Provides a full VM disaster recovery process that can be performed on either the entire VM, the OS disk volume (labeled "Hard disk 1"; usually SCSI 0:0), or any of the attached disks; this type of recovery is not available for self-service and requires assistance from the Storage and Virtualization team
OS Disk backups
- Provides disaster recovery protection for your OS disk volume (labeled "Hard disk 1"; usually SCSI 0:0)
- All other attached disks will be skipped and unavailable for recovery
- Full backups of the OS Disk run once weekly per VM
- Backups are kept for four weeks
- Only eligible on VMs with a "Hard disk 1" size of 128 GB or smaller (larger sizes must either use AllDisks or opt-out of backups entirely)
- OS Disk recovery is not available for self-service and requires assistance from the Storage and Virtualization team
Documentation
- Data Protection Services (DPS) backups and VM disk tagging
- Data Protection Services (DPS): Known limitations
- Restore files from the Data Protection Services (DPS) Command Center console for a Linux or Windows VM using the Restore Only Agent (ROA)
- Install the Data Protection Services (DPS) Restore Only Agent (ROA)
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Last modified on 2022-10-28 14:38:44.