What is Avamar backup solution?
Dell EMC Avamar is a hardware and software data backup product. Avamar software provides source-based deduplication, reducing data at the server before the data is moved to the backup target. That is different than the Dell EMC Data Domain platform that performs target-based deduplication at the disk backup appliance.
What is Avamar used for?
Features. Dell EMC Avamar enables fast, efficient backup and recovery through its integrated variable-length deduplication technology. Avamar is optimized for fast, daily full backups of physical and virtual environments, NAS servers, enterprise applications, remote offices and desktops/laptops.
How does Avamar work?
Avamar protects virtual machines (VMs) by deduplicating data at the client level so that only new, unique, sub-file, variable-length data segments are sent during daily full backups. In many ways, Avamar was really built for VMware backup.
What is EMC Avamar?
Dell EMC Avamar is proven backup and recovery software that delivers secure data protection for cloud, remote offices, desktops, laptops, and data centers. Tight integration into VMware interfaces makes Avamar an ideal solution for protecting any workloads running in a VMware environment.
What is raid in Avamar?
Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID). All standard Avamar server node configurations use RAID to protect the system from disk failures.
What is the latest version of Avamar?
Avamar 19.4
Avamar 19.4 is the current target code and the latest Avamar version available. Avamar 19.4 comes with additional features and functionality in the form of AUI.
Is Avamar cloud based?
Avamar 7.4 supports Cloud Tier, via App Managed only.
Which RAID types does Avamar support?
The Avamar system provides up to four levels of systematic fault tolerance: RAID, RAIN, replication, and checkpoints. Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID). All standard Avamar server node configurations use RAID to protect the system from disk failures.
Which of the following RAID types protect an Avamar server from disk data corruption or failure?
Avamar ensures protection from disk and data corruption through the use of RAID (redundant array of independent disks). The type of RAID depends on the particular node type. Just FYI, the Utility node and NDMP accelerator nodes both only have 2 146GB physical disks configured with RAID-1.
What is DPN in Avamar?
dpn command is a perl script that formats a series of avmaint nodelist and Linux OS commands into a user readable format for the purpose of viewing the current status of an Avamar Grid. Similar to other Avamar commands and tools, status. dpn is located in the /usr/local/avamar/bin/ directory.