PBBA – Purpose-Built Backup Appliance – a storage system designed expressly for storing backup data. Eg; Dell PowerProtect and prior Data Domain systems, and Exagrid’s arrays. Such storage devices typically store their data on disk drives and are solely used for storing backup data, and not for general block, file or object storage.
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