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.

Data stored by the BLM Archiver is accumulated into archive packages. An additional step is to create a restorable image of the archive data that is readable by the DS-Client. Each restorable image represents data from a single backup though it can contain multiple generations of files.