About continuous data protection
Continuous Data Protection (CDP) is a smart way to capture fast copies of backups for the VMware VMs, without stunning the VMs. Using CDP, you can rapidly make recent copies of backups and use NetBackup to retain and restore the backups as required.
Here are some salient features of CDP:
Completely web UI-based protection and recovery of VMware VMs.
Versatile API-based protection.
You can use traditional VADP-based backups along with CDP for VMware. The backup images are independent of each other, and they are treated separately for incremental backup or recovery purpose.
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD): You can use a Red Hat Linux-based NetBackup media server as a CDP gateway.
Support for ESXi and various datastore types. Refer to the Software compatibility list for the latest information.
Accelerator-based backup. Support for accelerator enabled storage like MSDP and OST.
Support for Instant access. You can start the VMs from MSDP storage.
Agentless single file restore from MSDP.
RBAC support for entire protection and restore workflow.
Traditional and capacity-based licensing.
The Veritas Resiliency Platform is fully compatible with the Veritas I/O filters used by CDP.