Service

Service resources represent running services and appliances that own their data and expose it through a network protocol. What gets backed up is the state the service itself holds, such as the messages in a mailbox or the configuration and database of a Plakar Control Plane appliance, rather than files or volumes sitting on a storage system.

Unlike a database or a file storage resource, where the data model is the point, a service resource is defined by the service being protected. This category covers the services that do not belong to one of the more specific categories.

Plakar Control Plane supports the following service resources: