Terminology

Gbackup 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 Gbackup server installed in the Service Provider's data center. These PCs have Gbackup installed in the Client mode.

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

Gbackup General Terminology:

Gbackup Server:

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

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

Gbackup Client:

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

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

(anyone who purchases a paid license of Gbackup is also a Gbackup 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.

Gbackup 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.

Gbackup Cluster :

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

Gbackup Cluster Node :

This mentions one of the Gbackup Server instances running inside the Gbackup 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.

Gbackup Web Console :

This is the browser based Gbackup user interface from which the backup, restore and administration of Gbackup servers and clients are done.
Since the user interface is browser based, any Gbackup 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 Gbackup meta information via standard HTTP/HTTPS Requests from the Gbackup Web Portal.