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Backup proxy is the key component that sits between your data center and Druva Cloud and is responsible for performing backup and restore of virtual machines.
The following are some key points that can help you to understand the purpose of a backup proxy:
To protect your virtual machines, you have to deploy the Druva backup proxy in your data center. The backup proxy then registers your server and discovers all virtual machines in the data center.
Backup proxy is a client-side component and is installed on standalone nodes or nodes in a cluster environment
After deploying a backup proxy, you must register it with Druva.
The backup proxy performs a backup of virtual machines, based on the backup schedule, by creating recovery points of the virtual machines and sending these recovery points to the assigned storage.
Transport modes
Druva backup proxy can access virtual machine data from datastores using the SSH method.
Transport mode | Description |
SSH | In this mode, the node reads data from storage and sends it across a network to the backup proxy. With SSH transport, large virtual disks can take a long time to transmit as the data is transferred over the network to the backup proxy. |
HotAdd | This mode takes advantage of the SCSI Hot-Add capability of the node to mount the HotAdd disk to Virtual Machine, which are being backed up to the backup proxy. The data is read directly from the mounted disks directly for the restore. |