How SPX Works

An SPX backup image file is a point-in-time representation of a computer volume. It is not a standard file copy of the volume, but rather a sector-by-sector duplicate of the volume. To recover data, SPX can mount a backup image file (using its Mount utility) to access its contents as if it were a regular volume. Users can then recover specific files and folders from this virtual volume. SPX can also restore an entire data volume, or the Arcserve Recovery Environment CrossPlatform (RE-X) can recover a system volume, to the exact point in time that the backup image was taken.

SPX brings a number of additional services to the Linux platform: