Considerations for users with the Advanced license

Tip

You can set up replication of backups from the cloud storage by creating a separate replication plan. For more information, refer to "Off-host data processing".

Restrictions

• Replicating backups from a location managed by a storage node to a local folder is not supported. A local folder means a folder on the machine with the agent that created the backup.
• Replicating backups to a managed location with enabled deduplication is not supported for backups that have the Version 12 backup format.

Which machine performs the operation?

Replicating a backup from any location is initiated by the agent that created the backup and is performed:

• By that agent, if the location is not managed by a storage node.
• By the corresponding storage node, if the location is managed. However, replication of a backup from the managed location to the cloud storage is performed by the agent that created the backup.

As follows from the above description, the operation will be performed only if the machine with the agent is powered on.

Replicating backups between managed locations

Replicating a backup from one managed location to another managed location is performed by the storage node.

If deduplication is enabled for the target location (possibly on a different storage node), the source storage node sends only those blocks of data that are not present in the target location. In other words, like an agent, the storage node performs deduplication at the source. This saves network traffic when you replicate data between geographically separated storage nodes.