These are some terms we use quite liberally – both in this document, and in our user interface. So here’s a short description of what each of them means.

ACCDataVault Service Provider Edition Terminology:

• Service Provider - The provider who offers the online backup service.

• Reseller - The reseller who sells the online backup service provided by the Service Provider to the end customers.

• Customer - The end customer of the Reseller/Service Provider who is backing up online to the service provider's data center.

• Client - PCs/Laptops/Servers in the customer site backing up to the ACCDataVault server installed in the Service Provider's data center. These PCs have ACCDataVault installed in the Client mode.

• ACCDataVault ID - This is the unique ID each installation of ACCDataVault is identified with. ACCDataVault will prompt you to give an ID during the installation. It will automatically take the machine name as the ACCDataVault ID by default.

• MCALs - MCALs are monthly licensing units. MCALs are added to the backup server by applying MCAL license keys. The added MCALs in the backup server are consumed on a monthly basis for licensing the clients that are backing up to the backup server. No MCALs are needed to be added in the replication server.

ACCDataVault General Terminology:

ACCDataVault Server:

A ACCDataVault Server receives (and stores) backup data from ACCDataVault Clients.

The backed up data is stored in the machine which runs the ACCDataVault Server – a PC can run ACCDataVault server if you plan to store data on that PC.

ACCDataVault Client:

A machine that has data it wants to back up has to run ACCDataVault Client.

The ACCDataVault Client backs up its data on to a machine running ACCDataVault Server.

(anyone who purchases a paid license of ACCDataVault is also a ACCDataVault client )

Replication:

Term used for the process where a backup server sends its backup data to a replication server to create a redundant copy of the backup data.

ACCDataVault Replication Server :

A machine that receives replication data from a backup server. In case the backup server crashes, it can be restored from the replicated data in the replication server. A backup server can replicate to only one replication server. A replication server can accept replication from more than one backup servers.

ACCDataVault Cluster :

The term specifies the deployment of ACCDataVault in a cluster. A number of ACCDataVault Servers [Backup & Replication] can be deployed to be run as a single entity and all storing and accessing the ACCDataVault metadata in a centralized ACCDataVault Database using ODBC. This will enable ACCDataVault Server to scale to multiple ACCDataVault clients to connect for backup/restore processes simultaneously.

ACCDataVault Cluster Node :

This mentions one of the ACCDataVault Server instances running inside the ACCDataVault Cluster. They get registered to the Cluster configuration as an active node in the cluster at startup.

Server Lookup :

A client looking up to the Master Server in the cluster to determine whom to connect for backup and restore.

ACCDataVault Web Console :

This is the browser based ACCDataVault user interface from which the backup, restore and administration of ACCDataVault servers and clients are done.
Since the user interface is browser based, any ACCDataVault Client or Server can be configured and administered from any location.

Remote / Online Backups :

The same as client-server (see above), except that the ‘server’ is outside the clients’ network.

Web Services API :

The ability to access ACCDataVault meta information via standard HTTP/HTTPS Requests from the ACCDataVault Web Portal.