Dell PowerVault DL2000 - Manual (Page 9)

BRANCH OFFICE CONSOLIDATION WITH THE DELL POWERVAULT DL2000 –
POWERED BY COMMVAULT SIMPANA REPLICATION
CONTINUOUS DATA REPLICATOR (CDR) RECOVERY POINTS
High availability of protected data in a consistent state is also available by creating
Recovery Points, through the use of snapshots created on the destination
machine. These Recovery Points can be mounted, shared as a volume on the
network, or recovered using Copyback. After a Recovery Point has been created,
the data can also be backed up, using the appropriate File System iDataAgent. This
provides additional protection for your data, as well as additional options for
recovery of your data.
Consistent Recovery Points, which define a point‐in‐time where application data is
in a consistent state on the source computer (the application server) can be
created using CDR, ensuring the application data can be restored to that point‐in‐
time. Recovery Points can also be created directly from a snapshot of the
replication volume on the destination computer, but this does not preserve
application data in a consistent state, and thus is more useful for file system data.
Recovery Points can be created, retained, backed up, mounted, and for Windows
can also be shared, and thus made available to users on the network. This allows
data to be protected, accessed, and recovered in a variety of ways.