DPX VStor on Catalogic Software

How to Back Up DataCore Swarm with Catalogic DPX: S3 Setup Guide

Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Modern businesses generate more data than ever: videos, documents, logs, backups, analytics, and more. Many are turning to object storage platforms like DataCore Swarm to keep up. Swarm is built for scale and durability, but like any storage platform, it needs reliable data protection. If the wrong data is deleted, corrupted, or encrypted by ransomware, it doesn’t matter how well the storage platform performs. What’s lost could stay lost.

Catalogic DPX is a data backup and recovery solution designed to protect data across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. In this article, we’ll look at how DPX and Swarm can work together to give you scalable storage with dependable protection.

Enhancing Data Recovery with vStor Snapshot Explorer and GuardMode Scan

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Data recovery in complex IT environments presents numerous challenges for backup administrators. As organizations grapple with increasing data volumes and evolving security threats, the need for efficient, secure, and flexible recovery solutions has never been more critical. Catalogic Software addresses these challenges with the introduction of vStor Snapshot Explorer, a significant enhancement to the DPX Data Protection suite.

vStor Snapshot Explorer: Expanding DPX Capabilities

vStor Snapshot Explorer is designed to streamline the data recovery process by allowing administrators to mount and explore RAW or VMDK disk images directly from VMware backups. This feature integrates seamlessly with existing DPX backup types, including:

Maximize Database Backup Efficiency with DPX vStor: Application-Consistent Protection for Oracle and SQL

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Backing up a mission-critical database is a different problem from backing up a file server. Speed and storage efficiency matter, but consistency matters more, because a database image captured mid-transaction can restore into a state that needs repair before it will open. Catalogic vStor, the software-defined backup appliance behind DPX, handles Oracle and SQL Server protection two ways: application-consistent backups driven by DPX, or native backups managed by the DBA with vStor underneath them.