Backup Lifecycle Management (BLM)

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About BLM

Backup Lifecycle Management (BLM) gives you additional options for copying, removing, and destroying data. This tool is provided from DS-System by your service provider.

The Backup Lifecycle Management (BLM) Module works with DS-Client, DS-System, and a BLM Archiver to extend the options for your backed up data. Data stored in the BLM Archiver is billed on a different scale as compared to the online (DS-System) data.

Restore from BLM is a feature that allows you to restore data from the BLM Archiver if you have data that has been previously sent to the BLM Archiver via a BLM Request.

You can perform BLM requests in the following ways:

• According to schedule from DS-Client

• “Configuring a backup set for BLM”

• “Configuring a BLM schedule”

• “Scheduling a backup set for BLM:”

• On demand from DS-Client:

• “Performing an on-demand BLM request”

• “Converting from tape to BLM”

• On demand from DS-System (service provider): Contact your service provider.

NOTE: If the BLM Module is enabled for the DS-Client, an additional feature Time-Push is available for Retention. See “Working with retention rules”.

Data that is stored by the BLM Archiver is accumulated into Archive Packages. An additional step of creating a Restorable Image (which is a DS-Client readable image of archived data) is required because data in these Archive Packages can not be in a format that is immediately readable by DS-Client. Each Restorable Image represents data from a single backup set though it can contain multiple generations of files. To restore from a BLM Restorable Image, see “Restoring from the BLM Archiver”.