DPX File Backup Documentation
Learn how DPX File Backup works, including backup scope, job configuration, source options, destination options, and restore procedures.
DPX File Backup
Enterprise file backup for business-critical data
Protect the file data your business depends on: shared folders, user directories, application files, exports, scripts, reports, and operational records. Catalogic DPX provides policy-based file backup for supported Windows, Linux, and OpenText OES environments, with granular recovery when users need a specific file, folder, or version restored.
Protection for the file data that keeps operations moving
Unstructured file data keeps growing across departments, applications, users, and infrastructure platforms. It often lives outside databases and can be spread across physical servers, virtual machines, and mixed operating systems. When that data is deleted, corrupted, encrypted, or overwritten, recovery needs to be fast and specific. DPX helps backup teams protect file data with centralized policies, flexible backup scopes, and granular restore options. Instead of treating every recovery as a full server recovery, DPX lets administrators restore the files and folders that matter.
- Protect file servers and file-based workloads
- Back up at node, disk, directory, or file level
- Restore individual files and folders
- Use policy-based scheduling and retention
- Add GuardMode ransomware detection for monitored file systems
Broad file protection for hybrid infrastructure
Protect file data across supported Windows, Linux, and OpenText OES environments with one enterprise backup platform. DPX is well suited for organizations that need to protect mixed infrastructure without creating isolated backup workflows for every file server type.
- Windows and Linux file system protection
- OpenText OES file-level backup support
- Agent-based backup for physical and virtual servers
- Centralized policy management
Granular recovery without full-system restore
Most file recovery requests are specific. A user deleted a folder. A report needs to be restored to an earlier version. A configuration file was overwritten. DPX lets administrators restore selected files and directories from available backup versions without recovering the entire server.
- Restore files and directories
- Recover from previous backup versions
- Search and filter restore selections
- Restore only the data required for the request
Flexible storage and retention options
File data often has different retention requirements than application or VM data. DPX supports backup workflows that can align file protection with operational recovery, long-term retention, archive, and compliance needs.
- Policy-based backup schedules
- Retention controls
- Disk and tape-oriented workflows where appropriate
- Alignment with broader DPX backup, recovery, and archive strategy
Capabilities for enterprise file backup and recovery
DPX gives administrators the controls required to protect file data consistently, recover precisely, and reduce risk across business-critical file systems.
Centralized management
Create and manage backup policies across file servers from the DPX management interface.
Precise backup scope
Protect at the level that matches the requirement: node, disk, directory, or individual file.
Granular recovery
Restore specific files and folders from available backup points instead of recovering more data than necessary.
Operational tuning
Use backup options such as verification, compression, retry behavior, open-file handling, mounted-drive behavior, and pre/post scripts.
Cyber-resilient workflows
Use DPX backup with GuardMode ransomware detection to improve recovery decisions after suspicious file activity.
Documentation-backed compatibility
Use the DPX Compatibility Guide for exact operating system versions, feature support, and platform-specific notes.
Operational fit
Built for environments where file backup cannot be an afterthought
Enterprise backup teams often manage a mix of legacy systems, current operating systems, business file shares, long-retention data, and ransomware recovery requirements. DPX gives those teams a consistent way to protect file-based workloads alongside broader backup and recovery operations. File backup is not only about copying files. It is about recoverability, retention, platform coverage, operational control, and confidence that a specific file or folder can be restored when the business asks for it.
- Departmental file share protection
- User directory recovery
- Configuration file recovery
- Application export and report protection
- OpenText OES file-level backup
- Recovery after accidental deletion, corruption, or suspicious file activity
File backup with the control enterprise administrators need
DPX File Backup protects data logically file by file. Administrators define the protected source, select the backup scope, configure job options, assign storage and retention, and restore selected files or directories when needed.
- Define the backup scope: select the file data to protect at the node, disk, directory, or file level
- Configure the backup policy: set schedules, backup options, storage targets, retention behavior, and operational controls
- Run policy-based file backup: protect file data consistently across supported systems using DPX-managed jobs
- Search and select recovery data: browse available backup versions and narrow restore selections by file, folder, or recovery requirement
- Restore what the business needs: recover selected files or directories without defaulting to a full server recovery
Add ransomware detection to file recovery planning
File servers are common ransomware targets because they contain shared data accessed by many users and applications. Backup gives teams a path to recovery, but recovery decisions improve when administrators understand which files changed and when suspicious behavior began. GuardMode adds file system monitoring and ransomware detection for supported DPX clients. It helps identify suspicious file activity so teams can make more informed recovery decisions and avoid restoring compromised data when cleaner recovery points are available.
- Detect suspicious file behavior
- Identify potentially affected files
- Support cleaner recovery point selection
- Strengthen file backup workflows with cyber-resilient context
Related file backup resources
Use these resources to validate platform support, understand DPX File Backup behavior, and plan ransomware-aware recovery workflows.
DPX Compatibility Guide
Confirm supported platforms, operating system versions, feature coverage, and version-specific notes before designing a protection policy.
GuardMode Ransomware Detection
See how GuardMode adds file activity monitoring and ransomware detection to DPX environments.
Related DPX capabilities
Backup and Recovery
Protect physical, virtual, and application workloads with DPX enterprise backup and restore.
Cyber-resilient Recovery
Strengthen recovery workflows with ransomware detection, immutable storage, and clean recovery planning.
Immutable Backup Storage
Use immutable backup storage to reduce the risk of backup data being altered or deleted by ransomware.
OpenText OES Backup
Protect OpenText OES file services with DPX file-level backup and granular recovery.
Protect enterprise file data with Catalogic DPX
DPX gives backup teams precise file-level protection, granular restore, policy-based operations, and ransomware-aware recovery workflows for critical file data across supported enterprise environments.
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