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On the way to the planet: Backup

Number of ransomware attacks has been constantly growing in recent years. No wonder that backup solutions are also being enhanced in this area. We did the same – with Storware Backup and Recovery 5.1 we introduced additional mechanism to protect data at rest from such attacks.

Storware Backup and Recovery is a modern, stable data protection solution, providing backup and recovery for VMware VMs and all application data. It’s dedicated to VMware vCenter Server and VMware ESXi standalone hosts. Storware is an agent-less, cost-effective and competitive platform for all kinds of businesses.

Storware offers a modern data protection solution that provides backup and recovery of VMs running in KVM and KVM-based environments. With Storware you can significantly improve the performance of your data center, automate recovery tests, and thus easily save resources, time, and money.

IsoLayer plays an essential role in the 3-2-1 backup strategy. This strategy requires three copies of the data, on two different media types, with one off-site copy.

If you’re using XFS-based backup destination – Storware introduces Immutable Backup feature (like the retention lock in DD), which also allows protecting your backup data from being encrypted by some ransomware.

With our plugin Storware appears in the OpenStack Horizon menu and provides access to the necessary backup and recovery options via the RESTful API.

For oVirt, Red Hat Virtualization and Oracle Linux VM environments, Storware now supports instant restore capability. Moreover, you can optionally initiate live storage migration once the VM is restored. Individual disk restore (back to the environment’s storage) has also been implemented for oVirt-based environments and OpenStack.

To use an instant restore feature, backup destination from which VM will be restored, has to be of a synthetic type. The restore process creates a NFS share on the Storware Backup & Recovery node, later this share is attached to the RHV as a new storage domain.

For oVirt, Red Hat Virtualization and Oracle Linux VM environments, Storware now supports instant restore capability. Moreover, you can optionally initiate live storage migration once the VM is restored. Individual disk restore (back to the environment’s storage) has also been implemented for oVirt-based environments and OpenStack.

Storware provides backup and recovery for Micorsoft 365 emails, contacts, calendar, events, files, sites and chats.

Storware Backup and Recovery solution supports Hyper-V 2016+ environments. All backups are done via a dedicated Hyper-V agent that needs to be installed on each Hyper-V host.

Application backup is a generic mechanizm in Storware Backup and Recovery. Applications such as databases: MS SQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Oracle DB, PostgreSQL, Relax & Recovery, Git repository usually have their own mechanisms that guarantee consistent backups. As we are aware, in many situations you need to have the option to customize the backup process.

The AWS backup service protects data used by Amazon customers. Like other cloud service providers, Amazon does not take responsibility for accidental or deliberate deletion of data by users or for their encryption by ransomware.

Storware Backup and Recovery provides a crash-consistent backup of instances running in the OpenStack environment. If your hypervisor is KVM and you’re running on QCOW2-based storage, Storware is able to backup both metadata and its volumes.

Storware Backup and Recovery – agentless backup and recovery for multiple virtualization and container platforms, storage providers, and applications running on-prem and in the clou can be integrated with third party consoles. One of them is OpenStack Horizon.

FusionCompute is a fully Huawei in-house developed computing virtualization software. Learn how the latest Storware can help Huawei partners & customers to provide enterprise-grade backup & recovery for their production virtual machines workloads.

All backups are done via a dedicated Hyper-V agent that needs to be installed on each Hyper-V host. Microsoft Hyper-v is the only hypervisor that requires the installation of an agent. The process is very simple, the rest of the configuration is similar to other suppliers.

When containers first appeared clients did not ask about data protection, but with time their awareness of the issue is growing. Additionally, more and more stateful applications are appearing due to DevOps putting their databases in containers.