Off-host data protection plans
This functionality is available in customer tenants for which the Advanced Backup – Servers or the Advanced Backup – NAS quota is enabled as part of the Advanced Backup pack.
Replication, validation, and cleanup are usually performed by the protection agent that performs the backup. This puts additional load on the machine on which the agent is running, even after the backup process is complete. To offload the machine, you can create off-host data protection plans – that is, separate plans for replication, validation, cleanup, and conversion to a virtual machine.
With the off-host data protection plans, you can do the following:
- Choose different agents for the backup and off-host data protection operations
- Schedule the off-host data processing operations during off-peak hours to minimize the network bandwidth consumption
- Schedule the off-host data processing operations during non-business hours, if you do not want to install a dedicated agent for off-host data processing
The off-host data processing plans run according to the time settings (including the time zone) of the machine on which the protection agent is installed. For a virtual appliance (for example, Agent for VMware or Agent for Scale Computing HC3), you can configure the time zone in the graphical user interface of the agent.