Abstract: One example method includes, in response to a crash event, obtaining data protection system credentials, accessing a target storage of the data protection system, obtaining, from the target storage, a configuration file including configuration information for a data protection cluster, and using, by the data protection cluster, the configuration information to self-configure. The method further includes creating a consistency group (CG) of a group of volume, and restoring a journal volume to append backup indexes.

Abstract: One example method includes, in response to a crash event, obtaining data protection system credentials, accessing a target storage of the data protection system, obtaining, from the target storage, a configuration file including configuration information for a data protection cluster, and using, by the data protection cluster, the configuration information to self-configure. The method further includes creating a consistency group (CG) of a group of volume, and restoring a journal volume to append backup indexes.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for automated time-based testing of a distributed system. In some embodiments, this includes setting a backup schedule for a backup of data on a client using a server scheduler on a server, setting a recover schedule using a client scheduler on the client, wherein the client includes a data simulation for generating the data and a repository, wherein the repository includes attributes of the data and a metadata of the backup, starting the data simulation on the client, according to the backup schedule, from the server, triggering a set of backup scripts to perform the backup of the data generated by the data simulation, and according to the recover schedule, triggering a set of recover scripts to perform a recover of the data on the client.