Getting started : About DS-Client
 
About DS-Client
Asigra Cloud Backup™ is a service that gives you state‑of‑the‑art data protection at an affordable price. Data from your server(s) is backed up using DS‑Client, and sent through an IP WAN connection to an off‑site data vault.
Ease of use comes from the agentless architecture: you need to install DS‑Client on only one LAN computer (thereby eliminating the need to install software on every target backup/restore computer). As long as the computer is on the same network as the target backup/restore computers, you will be able to browse data, back it up, and restore it as required.
Asigra Cloud Backup™ offers users the advantage of automatic and unattended backups for data environments ranging from single‑user standalone PCs to enterprise‑wide Local/Wide Area Networks.
During backups, DS‑Client extracts, compresses, and encrypts the items you specify for backup. Only new or modified data is backed up, thereby accelerating the backup transmission time. The backup data is sent via the Cloud (Internet, Intranet) to the secure, off‑site data center that hosts the DS‑System vault.
Restore is performed on demand via the same DS‑Client once the DS‑Client's security measures have been cleared.
 
 
Table 1 Major software components installed with the DS-Client
File name
Application description
dsuser.jar
This is the user interface to the DS-Client service/daemon program. DS-User allows you to configure the DS-Client, create backup sets, perform backups or restores, monitor DS-Client activities, and perform other tasks on the DS-Client.
dsclient.exe (Windows)
This is the Windows service program.
dsstatus.exe (Windows)
The DS-Client Service Manager program allows you to stop or start the DS-Client service (without having to use the Windows Control Panel > Services Microsoft Management Console).
DSConfig.exe (Windows)
The Grid DS-Client Configuration Tool (DSConfig.exe) allows you to manage and configure the nodes in a Grid DS-Client.
unixdsclient (Linux or Mac)
This is the daemon program.
dsclient.sh (Linux or Mac)
This is the startup / shutdown script for the DS-Client daemon.
dsclient databases
The DS-Client databases contain information such as backup set specifications, backup schedules settings, data usage statistics, logs, information about files and directories, generations that have been backed up, retention rules, and data expiration rules. They can be backed up during daily or weekly admin processes to ensure quick recovery of the DS-Client computer in case of a disaster.
 
For the Windows DS-Client, in the program files directory, a sub-folder called db contains database patches that were applied during DS-Client software installation / upgrade.
 
For the Linux or Mac DS-Client, the DS-Client databases may reside on PostgreSQL database instances.
dsclient DB scripts (Linux or Mac)
In the DS-Client installation directory, there are *.sql files, which are the database patches that were applied during installation or upgrade of the DS-Client software.