Overview
EBA Overview
Enterprise Block Archive is the Sendense backup storage and recovery-point system.
Definition
EBA means Enterprise Block Archive. It is the Sendense backup storage and recovery-point system for protected workload data.
EBA stores deduplicated backup data, tracks recovery points, and serves data back for restore, validation, browsing, and recovery operations.
Where It Runs
EBA is managed by SHA as part of the repository and data-protection architecture.
SHA can provision EBA repositories automatically, including self-hosted repositories and repositories backed by external S3-compatible providers.
What EBA Does
- Stores deduplicated backup data for protected workloads.
- Tracks recovery points and serves data back for restore, validation, and browsing.
- Manages repository health and capacity.
- Enforces repository immutability and legal hold where configured.
- Runs automated deletion and guarded cleanup.
Governance
Retention is controlled by protection patterns. An EBA repository can have immutability enabled, and protection patterns decide whether their backups use that immutability and whether governance or compliance mode applies.
Legal hold is configured on the EBA repository and prevents affected recovery points from being deleted until the hold is released.
Deletion And Cleanup
Deletion and cleanup are normally automated. EBA controls in the GUI can also start repository cleanup, including dry-run estimation and guarded hard-delete plus garbage-collection workflows where eligible.
What EBA Is Not
- EBA is not tied to a single storage vendor or storage technology.
- EBA is not just object storage. It includes the Sendense repository model, recovery-point metadata, deduplication, governance controls, and restore access.
- EBA is not SHA, SNA, SCA, snagent, or a Sendense Controller. Those appliances and agents work with EBA; EBA is the storage and recovery-point system itself.
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