Protect DPX Backups with DataCore Swarm

This solution brief covers how Catalogic DPX and DataCore Swarm work together, and it addresses both directions the two products support.

Swarm can act as scalable, S3-compatible storage for the copies DPX produces. A DPX archive job sends archive copies of protected Block and VMware Agentless data to Swarm over its S3 API, using DataCore registered as cloud storage in a device cluster with an associated media pool. Swarm exposes S3 Object Lock at the bucket level, so an archive bucket can carry its own retention controls. That suits teams keeping governed copies on infrastructure they operate themselves, whether to satisfy data-residency rules or to place the second copy in a separate failure domain.

DPX also protects Swarm buckets as a backup source, writing full and incremental object backups to vStor. Supported Swarm versions, restore behavior, object access through vStor, and the connection requirements for both workflows are documented on the DataCore Swarm backup with Catalogic DPX solution page.

Download the brief for the joint architecture. If you are ready to configure the integration, the step-by-step guide to S3 object storage backup for Swarm walks through certificates, node setup, job creation, and scheduling.

Written for storage architects and backup administrators deciding where DPX copies should live and how long they need to stay recoverable.