About this Guide

Indicates one of the following:

Indicates one of the following:

Sample prompt displayed before text you enter via the command-line, outside of the UI.

Applies to Unitrends Backup virtual appliances only. Virtual disk storage created on the Unitrends Backup VM's hypervisor that is added to the appliance to store backups. Also called attached disk storage.

Unitrends software installed on machines you wish to protect with file-level or Windows image-level backups.

Physical or virtual machine that is protected by installing a Unitrends agent and running file-level or Windows image-level backups.

The Unitrends system that backs up and recovers data. Appliance can refer to:

Backup that captures an application’s structure and data to ensure database consistency. You must install a Unitrends agent on the host asset to run application backups.

Physical and virtual machines, databases, and applications protected by the Unitrends appliance. Equivalent to the legacy term client.

Note:  The appliance automatically detects the virtual machines and applications on the virtual hosts and physical assets you add to the appliance.

Copy of a backup that is stored off-site. You can copy your backups to the following types of targets: Unitrends Cloud, a secondary Unitrends appliance, Cloud storage (managed by Amazon, AWS, Google, or Rackspace), disks, NAS devices, and other media.

Important!  Unitrends recommends having a second copy of your backups on one of these targets in order to recover from a disaster.

Backup copies that reside in the Unitrends Cloud or on a secondary Unitrends appliance are known as hot backup copies.

Backup copies that reside on the other target types are known as cold backup copies.

Equivalent to these legacy terms:

The appliance organizes backups into groups to manage dependencies. A backup group contains a full backup and any subsequent incrementals and differentials. A backup group always starts with a full backup.

A backup's mode determines what data to include in the backup. Example modes: full, incremental, and differential.

Combination of backups, backup copies, and other Unitrends features used to protect assets.

Determined by the backup method used to create the backup. Examples: file-level, host-level, application.

A summary of the appliance’s status with topic-specific tiles that capture at-a-glance data for various aspects of the appliance.

Specialized data compression technique that eliminates duplicate data blocks.

Applies to backup storage for Unitrends Backup appliances deployed on VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, and Citrix XenServer only. SAN or NAS storage that is connected directly to the Unitrends Backup VM over the iSCSI, CIFS, or NFS protocol.

Backup that protects an asset's file system and operating system. You must install a Unitrends agent on the asset to run a file-level backup. (For Windows assets, you can opt to use file-level backups, image-level backups, or both backup types.)

Toolbar across the top of the user interface that includes several menus to quickly edit global options, perform administrative tasks, and access additional resources.

Backup that protects a virtual machine by leveraging hypervisor snapshots. You do not need to install a Unitrends agent on a VM to run host-level backups.

Backup that protects a Windows asset at the disk and volume level. You must install a Unitrends agent on the asset to run an image-level backup. (You can opt to protect a Windows asset with file-level backups, image-level backups, or both backup types.)

Applies to Unitrends Backup virtual appliances only. Storage you attach to the Unitrends Backup VM that is used to store appliance configuration settings and backups. The initial backup storage must be at least 200GB in size.

Applies to Unitrends Backup virtual appliances only. 100GB disk used to create the Unitrends Backup VM. While deploying the virtual appliance, you select storage on the virtual host server that the installer uses to create this disk.

Process that recovers a failed or corrupted virtual machine in minutes.

A backup that protects an asset's filesystem by leveraging native iSeries backup operations. You do not install an agent on the iSeries asset.

Procedures performed to protect assets. Multiple job types exist, all of which can be monitored from the Active Jobs tile while in progress.

Backup that protects data stored on a NAS device. You do not install an agent on the NAS asset.

Any physical machine, virtual machine, or application protected with Unitrends backups. Equivalent to the legacy term client.

Disk image created on the backup appliance during instant recovery or during file-level recovery from a host-level backup.

Desired number of recovery points.

Desired speed of recovery.

Virtualized copy of an asset that can immediately assume the role of that asset in case of failure. Supported for VMware virtual machines and Windows machines.

Amount of space, bandwidth, disk space, memory, etc, consumed by the job or object.

Unitrends feature that enables you to quickly implement a protection strategy that aligns with your business continuity plan. Simply create an SLA policy and the appliance automatically creates the backup and backup copy jobs needed for the RPO and retention settings you specified.

Amount of resources being used by the system at any given time.

Topic-based sections of the dashboard.

Description of both a function (backup, recover) and the storage media, such as attached virtual disk. For example, an attached disk configured as backup storage.

Applies to Unitrends Backup virtual appliances only. Virtual machine created by deploying Unitrends Backup to your virtual host server.

A virtual machine replica of a VM that is kept up-to-date by applying backups of the original VM as they run. The replica is a cold, stand-by VM that you can quickly bring online to assume the role of the original VM.