
STORWARE ACADEMY
On the way to the planet: Backup
Jokes aside, backup is not rocket science!
Visit the Storware Academy – the place where we solve interesting problems from the data backup and recovery area. Our experts share their knowledge, “know-how” on topics related to modern data protection, focus on solutions, or answer questions asked by users.
Most of all, we want the Storware Academy to be a useful knowledge base for the community.
Air-Gap Data Protection in Storware Backup and Recovery using Rubrik Managed Volumes
Speakers:
Marcin Kubacki, Chief Software Architect at Storware
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.
Backup and Recovery for VMware
Speakers:
Marcin Kubacki, Chief Software Architect at Storware
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.
Backup and Recovery for KVM Environments
Speakers:
Marcin Kubacki, Chief Software Architect at Storware
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.
Storware isoLayer – AirGap Data Protection in Storware Backup and Recovery
Speakers:
Marcin Kubacki, Chief Software Architect at Storware
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.
Storware Backup and Recovery – Immutable Backup Destination
Speakers:
Grzegorz Pytel, PreSales Engineer at Storware
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.
Storware Backup and Recovery – Integration with OpenStack Horizon Plugin
Speakers:
Marcin Kubacki, Chief Software Architect at Storware
With our plugin Storware appears in the OpenStack Horizon menu and provides access to the necessary backup and recovery options via the RESTful API.
Instant Recovery with Live Migration for Red Hat Virtualization RHV
Speakers:
Paweł Piskorz, PreSales Engineer at Storware
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.
Instant Recovery with Live Migration for oVirt Environments
Speakers:
Paweł Piskorz, PreSales Engineer at Storware
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.
Instant Recovery with live migration for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager OLVM
Speakers:
Paweł Piskorz, PreSales Engineer at Storware
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.
Backup and Recovery for Microsoft 365 (M365)
Speakers:
Paweł Piskorz, PreSales Engineer at Storware
Storware provides backup and recovery for Micorsoft 365 emails, contacts, calendar, events, files, sites and chats.
Backup and Recovery for Hyper-V
Speakers:
Grzegorz Pytel, PreSales Engineer at Storware
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.
How to Backup Application in an Agentless Way
Speakers:
Marcin Kubacki, Chief Software Architect at Storware
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.
AWS EC2 Backup and Recovery
Speakers:
Marcin Kubacki, Chief Software Architect at Storware
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.
Backup and Recovery for OpenStack Environments
Speakers:
Marcin Kubacki, Chief Software Architect at Storware
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.
OpenStack Horizon UI Integration Plugin
Speakers:
Marcin Kubacki, Chief Software Architect at Storware
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.
Huawei FusionCompute – Backup and Disaster Recovery
Speakers:
Marcin Kubacki, Chief Softwarre Architect at Storware
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.
Microsoft Hyper-V Backup and Recovery
Speakers:
Marcin Kubacki, Chief Software Architect at Storware
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.
How to protect applications running in Kubernetes
Speakers:
Marcin Kubacki, Chief Software Architect at Storware
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.