Asigra Cloud Backup is comprised of two major components:
1. The DS-Client, installed at the end customer’s premises where data needs to be protected. The DS-Client is the collector of the data from all machines, drives, applications and systems on the end customers LAN
2. The DS-System, installed at the Enterprise or MSP’s data center or core of the cloud. The DS-System is the data aggregator. It receives data from all remote DS-Clients. The DS-System is available in standalone or High Availability (HA) and scalable N+1 configuration
This scalability enables Asigra Cloud Backup to support additional backup loads and multiple operating systems, servers, databases, applications, and storage environments.
Agentless DS-Client:
Windows, Linux or Mac
The DS-Client software is agentless – it does not need to be installed on every machine or application it backs up. It can run on a dedicated DS-Client machine or on an existing machine on the LAN that it needs to backup. One DS-Client is sufficient to collect and backup all the data from all the servers, desktops, laptops, network or local drives, structured applications and raw files on the entire LAN. It is designed to accommodate a range of heterogeneous network backup requirements and transmits data securely to the DS-System onsite or offsite over the Wide Area Network (WAN). The DS-Client is typically given administrator privileges and will back up data that it has credentials to access. DS-Client software is not licensed (except the EULA) and Asigra customers can install as many or as few DS-Clients as needed.
DS-Mobile
Client – Windows, Linux or Mac
The DS-Mobile Client software resides on mobile laptops that need to be backed up. DS-Mobile Client collects and backup all the data from the laptop it resides on. It is designed to accommodate a range of heterogeneous network backup requirements and transmits data securely to the DS-System residing in the datacenter. The DS-Mobile Client has a very light foot print and can be Mass Deployed to any number of laptops within minutes. The DS-Mobile Client software is not licensed (except the EULA) and Asigra customers can install as many or as few DS-Mobile Clients as needed.
Standalone DS-System
Windows or Linux
DS-System software maintains, manages and validates the online storage repository where the backed up data transmitted by the DS-Clients is saved. Depending on the DS-System license, a DS-System may be used to provide backup/restore services to one or more DS-Clients under the same accounts or under different accounts. The DS-System is typically located in a secure offsite hosting facility. The storage Architecture for the DS-System may be Direct-Attached-Disk, Storage Area Network (SAN) or Network-attached storage (NAS).
Windows or Linux.
The N+1 configuration of the DS-System is designed to allow for further scalability of the DS-System as well as to increase the availability of the backup service. The N+1 DS-System offers scalable architecture for more nodes in the N+1 configuration, as well as scalable storage through the Extensible Storage functionality. The DS-System is designed to withstand failures of some of its nodes without interrupting the backup service. All nodes in the N+1 DS-System configuration work together to provide backup and restore services to the same DS-Clients. As long as half of the N+1 nodes are available, the backups and restores will not be interrupted. Any DS-System from the N+1 configuration can serve (backup, restore, delete, synchronization, validation, etc.) the DS-Clients.
Modules are additional software functionality that augment the core backup/restore capability of the DS-Client and DS-System. The modules are pre-integrated with the DS-System’s central storage repository.