PowerProtect Data Manager 19.10 Cyber Recovery User Guide

Policies and copies overview

The Cyber Recovery solution secures data by using policies and copies.

Policies

The Cyber Recovery solution uses policies to perform replications, create point-in-time (PIT) copies, set retention locks, and create sandboxes. Note the following details about Cyber Recovery policies:

• A Cyber Recovery policy can govern one or more DD MTrees. Only a PowerProtect Data Manager policy type can govern more than one MTree.
• You can create, modify, and delete policies.
• When you run a policy, you can perform a single action or carry out multiple actions in sequence. For example, you can run a policy so that it only performs a replication. Or, you can run the same policy so that it performs a replication, creates a PIT copy, and then retention locks the copy.
• You cannot run concurrent Sync or Lock actions for a policy.

Copies

Copies are the PIT MTree copies that serve as restore points that you can use to perform recovery operations. In the Cyber Recovery UI, you can retention lock a copy or analyze its data to detect the presence of malware or other anomalies. You can also delete unlocked copies.