Safeguards Prism Central automatically, sending data to an object store at points in time or to registered clusters without a break. Instances relying on any other method cannot be recovered.
Also called PCBR.
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Each book explains Prism Central Backup and Restore in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Prism Central
A standalone instance, made up of either one VM or three in scale-out form, for monitoring and managing many clusters centrally.
Related terms
- PCDR
An earlier, command-line method of safeguarding Prism Central, dropped from pc.2022.9. Upgrades stay blocked by a pre-check until it is taken away and PCBR used instead.
- Point-in-time backup
A type of PCBR backup that saves restore points on a schedule to Nutanix Objects, AWS S3 or another S3-compliant object store, with an RPO between 1 and 24 hours.