Introduction

Arcserve UDP is a comprehensive solution to protect complex IT environments. The solution protects your data residing in various types of nodes such as Windows, Linux, and virtual machines on VMware ESX servers or Microsoft Hyper-V servers. You can back up data to either a local machine or a recovery point server. A recovery point server is a central server where backups from multiple sources are stored.

Arcserve UDP provides the following capabilities:

• Protects various type of source nodes, including Agent Based, Agentless Based, CIFS, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and so on.
• Backs up data to recovery point servers
• Replicates backup data to local and remote recovery point servers
• Monitors Arcserve High Availability
• Archives data
• Copies:
• Selected source files to a secondary backup location
• Recovery points to local and Cloud locations such as Share Folder and AWS EC2
• Recovery points to tape

• Creates
• Virtual standby machines from backup data to local hypervisor, AWS EC2 or Microsoft Azure
• Instant virtual machine to local hypervisor for Windows
• Instant virtual machine to local hypervisor, AWS EC2 or Microsoft Azure for Linux

• Restores
• Backup data and performs Bare Metal Recovery (BMR)
• Microsoft Exchange email and non-email objects using the Arcserve UDP Exchange Granular Restore utility.
• Note: For more details on the supported specifications, functions, and other features, see the Exchange Granular Restore user guide (esr.pdf).

• Supports
• Role-based administration
• Hardware snapshot
• Assured Recovery Test for recovery points
• SLA report for RPO and RTO

Arcserve UDP replicates backup data that is saved as recovery points from one server to another recovery point server. You can also create virtual machines from the backup data that can act as standby machines when the source node fails. The standby virtual machine is created by converting recovery points to VMware ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine format.

The Arcserve UDP solution provides integration with Arcserve High Availability. After you create scenarios in Arcserve High Availability, you can manage and monitor your scenarios and perform operations like adding or deleting destination machines.