Stages of Backup Polling

Backup polling occurs in the following stages:

1. The protected database writes backups without the involvement of Recovery Appliance, which does not need to be running while backups are created.

2. Recovery Appliance polls for newly arrived backups.

3. When Recovery Appliance discovers a file through polling, the Recovery Appliance examines its contents and tries to associate it with a protected database, and then does either of the following:

   • If the file is associated with a registered protected database, then Recovery Appliance processes the backup.

   • If the file is not associated with any registered protected database, then Recovery Appliance logs a warning message and does not process the file.