The configuration and management of the Remote DS-VDR service is performed solely on the DS-System side through DS-Operator. DS-Client has no direct involvement with Remote DS-VDR. However, encryption key forwarding must be enabled in DS-Client and the encryption keys must be forwarded to the DS-System and be available in the DS-System database. See: “Configuring the encryption keys settings”.

For each restore session, DS-System provides the required encryption key(s) for the corresponding backup set to the Remote DS-VDR Tool. This enables the tool to handle multiple restore sessions from different DS-Clients.

Encryption keys that are sent to the Remote DS-VDR Tool remain in an encrypted format. They are kept in temporary memory only during each Remote DS-VDR restore and are discarded when the restore is finished.