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With centralized backups, the agent service coordinates the centralized backups as requested by the Data Manager. The backup is triggered according to the schedule, and Data Manager manages the complete protection life cycle.
The data protection attributes are specified when you create the centralized protection policy. These attributes include Type, Purpose, Assets, Schedule, Retention, and SLA. After you create the protection policy, the lockbox is automatically created, and the configuration information is saved in SQLite database called configinfo.db.
The following steps and Figure 5 describe the centralized backup workflow:
During the next discovery process, the stored metadata is sent to the ADM service, and the same metadata is updated in Data Manager UI as copies.