BoostFS features include:
- Faster, more efficient backup: BoostFS distributes parts of the deduplication process to backup server or application client, offering 50 percent faster backups and requiring up to 98 percent less network bandwidth.
- Simplified disaster recovery: Applications can control the PowerProtect DD replication process with full catalog awareness.
- Advanced load balancing and failover: Transport links are aggregated for transparent load balancing and automatic link failover.
- DD Boost everywhere: The Boost File System plug-in expands application support.
- Concurrent connections: The maximum number of connections that can be used simultaneously is 256. The minimum value is 64, and the default value is 128.
- Compressed restore: This feature reduces bandwidth usage during the sending and receiving of data but increases CPU usage. When the mount option ddboost-read-compression is set to true, data is compressed on the server before being sent to the client. When the client receives the data, it must decompress the data. Sending and receiving compressed data uses less network bandwidth, but compressing and decompressing the data requires a significant amount of CPU power. By default, the ddboost-read-compression option is set to false.
# ddboost-read-compression=<true|false>
- Multithreaded Boost Mode: You can specify the number of threads to use in multithreaded Boost mode for writing each file (the default is 2). The setting does not have any significance if mtboost-enabled=false. The minimum value is 0, and the maximum value is 16.
# Enable Boost multithreading (default: true)
mtboost-enabled=true|false
- Improved Microsoft SQL backup performance: Starting with BoostFS 7.2.0.5, BoostFS for Windows provides improved Microsoft SQL backup performance. By default, this feature is disabled. This feature can be enabled by using the data-cache=enable mount option.
- File security: BoostFS for Windows supports access control lists (ACLs) on files and directories within the BoostFS mount point
- Linux automounter: To mount file systems dynamically, use the Linux automounter with the autofs command. Mounts created with the automount command are automatically unmounted when not in use.
BoostFS supports the following DD Boost features:
- Distributed Segment Processing
- Load balancing and failover
- Hard stream limits
- User authentication (Kerberos)
- Data encryption
- Replication Cloud Tier
- Transport Layer Security (TLS) anonymous authentication, which is supported to provide encryption