The CA ARCserve^® D2D Product Features

Learn what’s new in CA ARCserve D2D r16

Integrated Access to Cloud Storage — Easily enables you to take advantage of cloud services for remote, off-site protection, archiving or additional storage capacity. It enables the flexibility of cloud services for your data protection and helps you to take advantage of operational budget instead of capital budget for your storage needs.

Backup Throttling — Enables you to customize your backup performance processes to balance system usage. This is important if you have other mission-critical applications and services running that need most of the system resources. It helps you to ensure the necessary resources to enable these applications to adequately perform their functions.

Granular Mailbox Recovery — Sometimes, you only need to recover a single email or an attachment to an email, rather than needing to take the time or resources to recover an entire Exchange server. Granular recovery enables you to recover just the email that you need and get back to work quickly, relieving IT to work on strategic projects.

Desktop/Laptop Protection — Laptop theft, accidents and errors due to clumsy typing can jeopardize key business data residing on laptop and desktop workstations today. Avoid the cost of downtime with the same protection that you use with your servers—infinite, incremental snapshot backups and bare-metal restore for your desktops and laptops.

Encryption — Privacy is critically important today. Protect your data from prying eyes by encrypting your backups and rest easy that your data is safe, no matter where it is stored.

Windows Explorer Shell Integration — Privacy This familiar interface speeds the location of data for rapid recovery of files, folders, volumes, individual Exchange emails and databases. Recover your data and get back to business in the shortest time possible.

Auto Update — Keeping your CA ARCserve D2D software up to date is important to ensuring the best performance. Auto Update reduces your workload by notifying you of new updates and making it easy to install them, freeing up your time.

Block Level Infinite Incremental Backup — Like deduplication, this patent-pending technology uses less storage space, performs backups faster and puts less of a load on your Production servers. Disk-to-disk backups are based on block-level I2 technology from CA Technologies. This technology has been designed to intelligently manage the backup of only blocks of data that have changed since the last backup and present a consolidated point-in-time view of the protected volume for multiple recovery types, reducing your recovery time.

Protection for Virtual Servers — A single user interface to help protect virtual servers as well as physical servers saves you training time and simplifies operations. Block-level I2 technology helps to reduce backup time, storage space, network usage, workload on the Production servers and recovery time for virtualized servers.

Single-Snapshot Backup with Five Restore Types — Single-pass backup enables you to rapidly restore files, volumes, databases, Microsoft Exchange emails or the entire system to any server in both physical and virtual environments. One snapshot helps to ensure recovery of your data in the most efficient manner.

Bare-Metal Restore to Dissimilar Hardware — Bare-metal restore offers a lightning-fast way to recover a crashed server to the same or dissimilar hardware. It simply paints the picture of the original drive back onto the new drive and restarts the system. This reduces a process that can potentially take as long as 36 hours to just minutes, minimizing risk and your losses from downtime.

Application-Consistent Snapshot Backups — For fast application recovery, this ensures that the application is being properly quiesced and backed up from a consistent state to help reduce downtime and minimize losses.

Dynamic Documentation with the Web 2.0 Interface — Fast and easy access to the latest product documentation that is pushed to you via the CA ARCserve D2D user interface helps to reduce management time.

Point-In-Time Backup View — This provides a full point-in-time view of the disk for rapid recovery of files, folders, volumes, Exchange emails and databases.

High-Frequency Backups — New I² technology™ provides the ability to perform backups every 15 minutes for greater levels of protection, improved recovery point objectives and reduced risk.

End-User Search and Restore — You can find and recover file-level and folder-level items from user data sets without administrator intervention. This speeds recovery time and reduces the workload of IT personnel.

Integration with CA ARCserve® Backup r16 — You can reduce management time and increase flexibility by migrating CA ARCserve D2D backups into the CA ARCserve Backup recovery catalog for one central location to recover your data. Movement of backups to disk, tape or cloud to support your disaster recovery initiatives reduce risk, increase flexibility and help to control costs.

Use with CA ARCserve Replication and CA ARCserve High Availability r16 — You can replicate complete CA ARCserve D2D backups to a remote location for an additional level of protection or rapid recovery in the event of a data center outage.

Remote Office/Branch Office Protection — You can protect your remote offices with local backup and recovery by using CA ARCserve D2D and then replicate the backup files to a central location by using CA ARCserve Replication. You can then back up these files to tape by using CA ARCserve Backup for long-term, off-site archiving.

Supported Platforms and Applications — CA ARCserve D2D works with Windows to provide backup of Windows Server 2003 and 2008, Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), Windows Vista and Windows 7 on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, and Microsoft Exchange (2003, 2007 and 2010) and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008 databases. It also supports VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer virtualization platforms.

Certification for Windows Server 2008 R2 — CA ARCserve D2D has been independently tested to meet Microsoft-recommended standards for security, stability, availability, reliability and compatibility with the Windows Server 2008 platform.