Backup Lifecycle Management ("BLM") relates to our long term data retention functionality which provides:
- To enable cost-effective long-term data storage.
- To allow the search for retained backup data (data indexing).
- To allow easy restoration of older backup data.
- To manage backup data destruction.
BLM frees up storage
BLM can free up the DS-System Online Storage space that is occupied by stale backup data, thereby reducing the cost of protecting inactive files.
BLM handles moving or copying of data from the on-line storage to Archive.
The transfer of data from the source to the DS-System (and keeping a local copy if configured) is not changed by the BLM retention process.