Glossary
This software uses alerts for update/upgrade notification and certain other conditions that require attention. When an Alert occurs the software will create a popup from the Windows notification area (also known as "system tray"). The popup will be visible for 7 seconds. Additionally, the Alerts tab of the Archive Manager folder will contain the Alert. The Alerts tab will change from "Alerts (0)" to "Alerts (1)". If more than one Alert is active the display of the number of Alerts will change from 1 to 2 and so on.
An archive is the result of running a protection plan, and contains protected data as the data exists at each protection plan runtime. Each time a protection plan executes, a new restore point is added to the archive associated with the plan. When a protection plan runs for the first time, an archive is created in the store that is targeted by the plan. This archive appears in the Archive Manager console tree as a sub-folder of the Archives folder of the store, and it is given the same name as the protection plan. A restore point is also created for exploring and restoring the archive at this point in time. Each subsequent run of the plan adds another restore point to the archive.
The user interface is called the Archive Manager. It is the "control console" for the software and runs on the computer where the software is installed.
This is a Windows software service that provides the core functionality of the product.
An Archive Restore Task restores archives from the selected store to an alternate location on local disk, RDX media or LTFS volume. This feature allows for keeping archival copies of data in native (original) format.
ArchiveIQ is a trademarked term for the deduplication technology used by the software.
Bare Metal Restore (BMR) is a term used to describe restoring a computer operating system and its data volumes in their entirety. It allows for restoring a backed up system to the same or similarly configured piece of hardware. The Computer System protection plan type provides BMR capability.
The Checkup Report is a convenient way to monitor the status of your system by generating a report of the store and protection plan status for the past 24 hours. Any plan or store task errors are highlighted in red, and warnings are highlighted in yellow for quick identification of problems.
This is a Windows software service that provides the bridge between this software and cloud storage.
The term Cloud Storage is used by this software to describe networked online storage.
Cloud vaulting is the term used to describe storing backed up data to the cloud.
Short for Store Copy Task, a store copy task copies selected archives from one store to another.
A store can be configured to expire older restore points based on daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly age. Expire tasks evaluate a store's current restore points and moves expired catalogs to the store's recycle bin.
Local Plans are protection plans that protect data stored on the server where the software in installed.
The software writes output to files called log files.
LTO generation 5 and newer tapes can be formatted with the Linear Tape File System (LTFS), available from third-party vendors. LTFS allows an LTO tape to be used like a hard disk.
Plan is an abbreviation of the term Protection Plan.
The Point-in-Time Explorer is a Windows Explorer-like interface for viewing a backed up set of data at a specific point in time. Data can be restored back to disk through copy and paste functionality or a Point-in-Time Restore action.
A Protection Plan is the set of parameters used by the ArchiveIQ engine to protect data on a given computer. It defines which data is to be archived, which store to save it in, and when it should run. Each remote computer requires at least one protection plan. There are four protection plan types available: Files and Folders, Computer System, Exchange Data and SQL Databases. Protection plans initiate snapshots of computer systems and generate archives of data in targeted stores.
A Purge Task is a store task that recovers disk space from expired or deleted restore points.
If the software encounters a problem file in the stored content it will move the item to the store’s Quarantined Items folder, and update plan indexes to reflect the quarantine. The store is then prepared to auto-heal during a subsequent protection plan execution. The software verifies a store's contents for corrupt and missing files through Store Verify Tasks and automatically during plan runtime, or as part of other operations like Store Copy and Store Purge tasks. When an item is quarantined it is marked with a red flag icon. The software will rewrite the data into the store if it comes across the item again during a Protection Plan run. If it successfully "repairs" the item, the red flag on the item in the Quarantined Items folder is changed to a green flag, at which time it can safely be deleted from the folder.
This term is used to describe the act of recovering a computer system.
A Recovery Point is the result of running a Computer System plan type. Each time a Computer System Protection Plan executes it creates a Recovery Point that can be used to recover the entire computer system, or individual files within it.
Each Store has its own recycle bin where expired catalogs are kept until purged by a store Purge task.
Networked computers protected by the software are called Remote Computers. Each remote computer is listed and managed by its network computer name under the Remote Computers folder in Archive Manager. The computer that the software is installed on is called the Local computer, or sometimes the Archive Manager server.
The Restore action initiates data recovery as the data existed at a point in time. Data is restored by choosing a particular restore point from a particular archive in a store. Files can be restored to their original location or to an alternate location of your choice. The original directory structure and permissions are also restored.
A restore point is an archive of selected data as it exists at protection plan runtime. The plan initiates volume shadow copies for consistent and application-aware restore points. Each time a Protection Plan is executed a new restore point is created corresponding to that particular point in time.
The Search Service is a Windows software service for performing file lookups within stores. Search is not compatible with all editions of the software.
This is a Windows computer program that runs in the background.
The System Recovery Environment (SRE) is a bootable pre-installation environment used in the process of recovering a computer system that has been protected with a Computer System plan type. An SRE ISO image can be downloaded and burned to media using the Save System Recovery Environment action in Archive Manager. It contains a lightweight Windows operating system and an interface for configuring the new hardware and choosing a recovery point.
The term Storage refers to disk, cloud and tape storage used by the software. It is sometimes used to describe a store or set of stores used by the software.
A store is a disk storage location targeted by local and remote protection plans for keeping archived data. Protected file content originating from all associated computers is deduplicated and stored in a common content location within the store. Information specific to each protection plan (metadata) is abstracted and tracked in individual store archives.
Store Groups facilitate running a protection plan using rotating media and allow for taking media off-site. Copy Tasks can also select a destination store group instead of a specific destination store to enable media rotation. When stores have been created on multiple storage devices, stores can be grouped together into a Store Group. Protection Plans can then target a Store Group instead of targeting a specific store.. At plan startup time, the plan selects a store in the store group based on the Store Group settings. Stores can also be added or removed from the group without affecting the plan configuration.
Store tasks are tasks that operate at the store level and run processes on the Archive Manager server. Types of store tasks are: Vaulting, Copy, Verify, Expire, Purge and Archive Restore.
The System Recovery Environment (SRE) is a bootable pre-installation environment used in the process of recovering a computer system that has been protected with a Computer System plan type. An SRE ISO image can be downloaded and burned to media using the Save System Recovery Environment action in Archive Manager. It contains a lightweight Windows operating system and an interface for configuring the new hardware and choosing a recovery point.
This software can store data on LTO tapes for long-term retention. Primarily, tape is used by a vault task to write to tape selected archives that already exist in a store on disk. A Store Vaulting Task reformats a store’s deduplicated data into a form called a Vault, suitable for high-speed streaming. In addition, LTO generation 5 and newer tapes can be formatted with the Linear Tape File System (LTFS). LTFS tapes can be used as a Store location and Archive Restore Task targets.
Tape Storage is a folder of the Archive Manager user interface that contains all of the tape-related items. Here you will find Volume Sets, Tape Vaults and Tape Devices, for instance.
The process of backing up selected archive data to tape is called Tape Vaulting. Deduplicated data is reformatted from the store into a Vault, suitable for high-speed streaming to tape for long-term retention.
Tasks are configurable commands that may be scheduled or run on demand. Tasks are stored and executed as Windows Scheduled Tasks. Task types consist of Protection Plans and Store Tasks.
Windows denies or grants access to its resources by means of user accounts. For best results, a user account should be created for exclusive use by this software. Plans and tasks should run using this account to avoid conflicts. The Properties page of the Archive Manager folder in the user interface contains a tab called User Account. Here you can specify account credentials that will automatically be used when creating or editing tasks. This avoids being frequently prompted for user account credentials.
A vault is a cloud or tape storage location targeted by a store vaulting task and is created automatically when the store vaulting task is created. After a vault is created, it will appear in the All Cloud Vaults or All Tape Vaults folder.
Vaulting is the process of storing previously archived, deduplicated data to cloud or tape for long-term retention.
A Vaulting Task is a store task for saving data in its deduplicated state either to cloud or tape for long-term retention.
A Verify Task is a store task for verifying store consistency.
The ViewStor Service is a Windows service for viewing the contents of an archive restore point in the point-in-time explorer window.
A Volume is another term for a tape.
A Volume Set is a logical grouping of Volumes, or tapes. A Vaulting Task targets a Volume Set. A Vault can span Volumes within a Volume Set. Multiple Vaulting Tasks can target the same Volume Set, as well. A single volume, therefore, can contain zero or more vaults or partial vaults.