Beyond Proxmox Backup Server: When Do You Need More?
See when multi-hypervisor estates, long retention, immutability, and central reporting call for Catalogic DPX 4.16 instead of Proxmox Backup Server alone.
The Smart Choice in Data Protection
Reliable, rapid, and cost-effective backup and recovery. Protect and recover your data from human errors, disasters, and ransomware attacks. Fast in-place recovery from disk, tape, and cloud.
DPX 4.16 expands agentless virtualization coverage and cyber resilience
Extend agentless protection to Proxmox, back up and restore VMware VMs secured with vTPM, add end-to-end audit logging in vStor, and manage tape libraries entirely from the web UI.
DPX 4.16 Release Overview
Explore agentless Proxmox backup, vStor audit logging, VMware vTPM support, and expanded disaster recovery and tape library management.
Discover the Smart and Secure Choice for Data Protection
Here's what matters most in a backup solution:
- Reliable and secure backup that just works
- Built-in, proactive ransomware protection
- Rapid and granular recovery when you need it
- Cost-effective, easy-to-understand licensing and storage model
- A first-class support team
What's new in DPX 4.16
DPX 4.16 extends agentless protection to Proxmox and adds security, compliance, and recovery controls across VMware, vStor, and tape.
Agentless Proxmox backup
Protect Proxmox virtual machines without agents, with full and incremental backups to vStor and node management from the web UI.
VMware vTPM support
Back up and restore VMware virtual machines protected with a Virtual Trusted Platform Module.
End-to-end audit logging in vStor
Capture a full audit trail of REST and system-level actions, with configurable retention, filtering, and CSV export.
Tape libraries in the web UI
Manage tape registration, import and export slots, and automated library scans entirely from the web console.
Robust Backup and Recovery
DPX provides robust backup and recovery capabilities. Patented block-level protection reduces backup time and impact by 90%, for both physical and virtual servers. Files and applications are easily recovered directly from backup storage. The vStor backup repository is a flexible and scalable software-defined backup target that frees you from expensive backup appliances and vendor lock-in.
GuardMode Ransomware Protection
DPX GuardMode provides an additional layer of ransomware detection to backup teams by proactively monitoring for suspicious activity and encrypted files. When ransomware strikes, DPX provides a list of affected files to restore and multiple recovery points so you can spin the clock back to just before the infection happened. Backups are stored as immutable snapshots with offline, air-gapped copies.
Catalogic DPX Use Cases
Backups are a necessary insurance policy. They might be used to restore a database table or a single file after accidental deletion, or to recover your servers and data after a ransomware attack. In the worst case, you can recover all your data and systems lost to a natural disaster or a major ransomware attack. In all these use cases, broad application and systems coverage, along with reliability, is paramount. But backup can also be more than an insurance policy. With instantly accessible backup images, you can leverage backup data sets for many other tasks, such as Dev-Test, DevOps, reporting and compliance, and analytics. DPX delivers across a range of enterprise backup and recovery use cases, including all your old favorites!
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Secure Data Protection
Get backups done on time, reliably, and inexpensively, for physical and virtual environments.
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Rapid Granular Restore and Disaster Recovery
Restore systems in the time it takes to boot them using our patented Instant Virtualization technology.
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Proactive Ransomware Protection
Early detection with recovery from backups that are immutable snapshots and air-gapped from ransomware.
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Cloud Integration
Archive backup images to your S3 object storage provider, lock them, and find them when you need them.
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Tape Support
Full support for multiple tape drives and new formats like LTO-9. Tape support will never be discontinued.
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Remote Office Backup
Software-defined backup repository to build your own local backup targets, as simple as a single virtual machine.
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Bare Metal Recovery
Restore complete Windows and Linux systems to supported replacement hardware or virtual targets after failure, corruption, or ransomware.
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NDMP and OSSV
Extremely cost-effective NDMP backups to disk, tape or cloud for NetApp or Isilon or NetApp OSSV replacement.
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Micro Focus OES Backup
Leader in Novell backup since 1997, including Micro Focus OES 2018/2023 and GroupWise, with granular restore.
DPX Resources
Catalogic DPX for Proxmox VE Datasheet
DPX 4.16 adds agentless Proxmox VE backup to Catalogic's enterprise data protection platform, giving mixed VMware, Hyper-V, and Proxmox estates a single console for backup, recovery, and ransomware resilience.
DPX vStor Product Brief
DPX vStor product brief: software-defined immutable backup repository built on ZFS, included with every Catalogic DPX license at no extra cost.
DPX GuardMode Product Brief
DPX GuardMode product brief: ransomware and data anomaly detection built into your backup workflow, with real-time alerts and targeted recovery. Free with Catalogic DPX.
Additional Features
The vStor Software-Defined Backup Repository
The vStor backup repository is a flexible and scalable software-defined backup target that frees you from expensive backup appliances and vendor lock-in. Built on open source components, vStor can use any block storage without restrictions. It supports both deduplication and compression for efficiency and provides point-to-point replication for DR or remote office support. With vStor, you can build different backup targets to meet your performance needs. For example, you can deploy a single VM to support a small office, or a high-performance vStor built on all-flash storage for your most critical workloads. There are no additional licensing costs for vStor repositories. vStor can be deployed quickly as a virtual appliance or installed on a physical server to meet performance needs. For more details on vStor, contact us.
Multi-purpose Backup Images
Catalogic DPX stores backups as usable snapshots. Data can be accessed for recovery purposes, but it can also serve to provide needed data for other use cases, such as reporting, dev-test, analytics and so on. Snapshot backup images can be mapped to compute nodes with only a few mouse clicks, giving you fast and easy data delivery.
Simple Object Recovery
DPX provides rapid, easy recovery of application data objects. This includes Microsoft Exchange (emails, contacts, tasks, etc.), Microsoft SharePoint (docs, lists, sites, etc.) and Microsoft SQL (individual table items). Easy drag-and-drop recovery uses mapped backup images that take only moments to access, dramatically reducing recovery time.
Unique NetApp Integration
For NetApp users, DPX offers unique integration with NetApp ONTAP. DPX sends data blocks directly to NetApp storage, eliminating the need for media or device servers. This increases efficiency and reduces network complexity.
Detailed Reporting
DPX includes built-in reports in the HTML UI, giving administrators visibility into backup activity, job status, job details, node configuration, recovery points, license usage, backup data growth, RPO compliance, and more. Reports can be scheduled and downloaded as PDF or CSV files for further analysis or sharing. Reporting is included at no additional cost. For more information on reporting, see the DPX reports documentation.
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System Requirements, Deployment, & Compatibility
Catalogic's enterprise data protection solution offers broad platform compatibility with your network, servers, applications, and databases. For information on how to deploy DPX and for compatibility information, please see our documentation.
| Type | DPX Master or Device Server or DPX vStor Server | Client |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | 4 GB minimum, 8 GB recommended | 2 GB minimum, 4 GB recommended for Enterprise Applications |
| Processor | 2 Cores minimum | 1 Core minimum |
| Architecture | x64 required | Please refer to the latest Compatibility Guide |
| Disk Space | 5 GB minimum free space on system drive for installation, and 100 GB for catalog storage (direct attached or SAN) | 4 GB minimum free space on system drive for installation* |
| Operating System | Please refer to the latest Compatibility Guide | Please refer to the latest Compatibility Guide |
*Note: For Windows clients with limited disk space, a client-only installer is available, which requires only 1.2 GB of temporary free space on the system drive. For details and restrictions, see the DPX Deployment Guide.
The above recommended configuration can support an enterprise with up to 300 clients. Larger enterprises can be accommodated by introducing additional master servers. DPX performance is dependent on backup job configuration and scheduling. The above recommended configuration is able to support approximately 25 concurrent jobs, with each job backing up one client.
The master server may be virtualized; however, the specified resources must be reserved for the virtual machines serving in this capacity. Please consult your virtualization vendor (e.g., VMware, Microsoft) to review the supportability of tape libraries or tape drives by the guest OS where you plan to install the master server. For example, fiber channel tape devices are not supported by VMware ESX Server.
Since backup and restore performance is highly dependent on disk and network I/O, choice of storage subsystems, network infrastructure components, as well as applicable configuration parameters for each will determine actual performance within specific IT environments.
Case Studies
Catalogic DPX Helps CreditGUARD Recover from Ransomware Attack
When confronted with the ransomware threat, the critical role of their investment in DPX became clear. The robust DPX system, featuring multiple authentication layers, remained untouched by the attack. Simultaneously, their data, preserved in immutable vStor snapshots, was immediately ready for recovery.
What Clients Say About Us
Josh Foremaster
Assistant Director of IT Operations, Southern Utah University
“The configuration was simple, the support team quickly helped us through the usual startup glitches, and it works just as we had hoped. Scheduling backups has become a snap, and everything just works. We don't need to watch over it or restart jobs anymore.”
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