January 2019

- - - - - Axcient Technical Best Practices Newsletter

Information from technical people for technical people.

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Adding a new Replibit vault

When you are ready to have additional vaults provisioned in the Axcient Cloud, you'll need to know how to configure them for replication.

Learn more about adding Replibit vaults:


Migrating a protected Replibit system

Have you ever needed to relocate a protected system in Replibit, including all recovery points, job histories, and metadata, from one device to another?

There are two methods you can use to perform this type of full migration.

Read more about migrating a Replibit system:

[Video] How to migrate a Replibit BDR appliance

[Video] How to migrate a Replibit vault



Configuring a new Replibit BDR appliance

You probably already know you can lease an Axcient Replibit BDR appliance.

But you have new choices when configuring that Replibit BDR appliance, too

How to configure a new Replibit BDR appliance:



Retrieving Anchor log files for agent sync issues

When the Anchor desktop client is not synchronizing as expected, your first step in diagnosis is to gather the logs from the Anchor desktop client.

Learn about gathering Anchor log files:

[Video] Tips on reading Anchor log files:

Using the Machines tab to track sync issues

The Anchor Machines tab allows you to see all devices registered to a selected organization, which can help you track and monitor those registered machines.

Find out more about using the Anchor Machines tab:

Watch a short video on how to do this:

Business Recovery Cloud (BRC) has three main consoles:

UMC (Unified Management Console)
RMC (Remote Management Console)
BRC User Portal

Find out when to use each BRC console:


What is BRC's Unbundled Offsite(UBO) feature?

Axcient BRC replication backup jobs are sometimes referred to as “offsites”. As the name Unbundled Offsite implies, once this feature is enabled, your offsite jobs won't be bundled up together. As soon as each backup job completes, the corresponding cloud replication threads start running.

Details on using the UBO feature are available here:





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