Backup to Cloud

Whether you need to back up to cloud storage or local storage, use the centralized web-based interface of NAKIVO Backup & Replication. Thus, you can manage all data protection activities anytime, anywhere without switching between different interfaces. The centralized management saves time and resources as well as reduces the risk of human error. With the solution, backing up your data to the cloud is no different than backing it up locally. Simply add supported cloud destinations as repositories, choose the source machines and run the backups.

Storing backups offsite promotes data safety and, by extension, business continuity. There’s no simpler way to create and maintain offline backups than by using NAKIVO Backup & Replication. The solution accommodates business growth by allowing you to backup new workloads directly to the cloud. It means you no longer have to expand your physical infrastructure, thereby inflating your IT expenditures. Another advantage of offsite storage with NAKIVO Backup & Replication is increased data availability. After all, you can access the cloud anytime, anywhere.

Running resource-intensive data protection jobs during peak business hours can put an unnecessary burden on your network. With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, you can slow down or speed up data transfer to the cloud to avoid bandwidth bottlenecks and reach maximum operational efficiency. The advanced bandwidth throttling functionality allows you to set per-job limits or allocate bandwidth on a global level. In either case, you can easily ensure that data protection activities don’t stand in the way of your business operations.

To achieve high data availability and minimize system downtime, back up your virtual machines to the cloud. During a failure or outage, you can instantly boot VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V VMs on target hosts without having to fully recover them. With this recovery option, you significantly reduce your RTOs. The changes you introduce to the running VMs don’t affect backups stored in the cloud. This means you can test system updates and application patches without modifying backups and production VMs.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers solid protection against one of the most destructive threats to your organization’s data. The solution allows you to back up directly to Amazon S3, where your backup data can be secured against ransomware with S3 Object Lock. To manage backup ransomware protection, you can enable S3 Object Lock in NAKIVO Backup & Replication and set a retention period that cannot be lifted by anyone. For as long as your files remain locked, it’s impossible to modify, delete or encrypt them. You can also use S3 Object Lock to retain data for legal and compliance purposes.

It’s not uncommon for production files and application objects to get lost or corrupted. With backup to cloud enabled by NAKIVO Backup & Replication, you can restore data almost instantly. Search for the needed files and app objects, and restore data to the original location or a different machine without having to decompress backups or run a full recovery. Granular recovery saves you time and allows you to operate with minimum to no business disruption.

Three. That’s the minimum number of copies you should keep in compliance with the 3-2-1 rule. To further satisfy the requirements of the rule, store your backups on two different media. Finally, always have an offsite copy of your backup. If the three conditions are met, the recovery of your data is almost guaranteed. And there’s no easier way to follow the 3-2-1 rule than with the use of NAKIVO Backup & Replication. The solution allows you to automatically create backup copies, which can be sent to a public cloud for offsite storage. Choose between Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage as a backup copy target depending on your business needs and budget.

The verification of backup recoverability is an essential part of any incident response and recovery plan. Creating backups is only the first step. The second step is ensuring the integrity of your backup data and making sure recoveries can go smoothly. NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers two ways to verify VM recoverability. First, the solution can take a screenshot of the OS of a booted VM, discarding the booted VM afterward. Second, the solution can test-recover a VM and check the availability of its hypervisor tools. For both methods, you can view the verification results in the solution interface or receive an email to your inbox. Use these verification methods to be certain your workflow can be quickly and easily restored in case of a disaster. To save time and effort, schedule backup verification.

Backing up terabytes of data manually is not only time consuming but also error-prone. Therefore, it is recommended that you automate backup jobs with NAKIVO Backup & Replication. The solution simplifies the management of data protection activities through the use of highly customizable policies. You can automate the backup of your VM workloads based on one or several of the following VM criteria: name, tag, size, location, configuration or power state. Moreover, you can schedule the creation of cloud-based backups to remove the need for manual intervention.

Back up your critical workloads to Amazon S3, where they can be protected by S3 Object Lock. The functionality allows you to ensure backup data immutability for a fixed period of time in Compliance mode. To prevent unauthorized access to Amazon S3 objects, set a retention period, which cannot be shortened or modified by anyone, not even the root user. S3 Object Lock offers a simple yet powerful way to protect your most critical data against ransomware and ensure ransomware recovery. You can also use it to meet the strictest data compliance and retention requirements of your industry.

Cost is an important consideration when choosing the best backup destination. Therefore, in addition to several cloud storage platforms, NAKIVO Backup & Replication allows you to reduce the size of your backups with data compression. When compressing your backup data, you can decrease the space required for storing your backups, hence the associated cloud storage costs. The solution offers three levels of compression balancing space savings and CPU usage. The added benefits of backup size reduction are faster data protection activities and a decreased network load.

Retention policy gaps are a common reason for data loss, which is why it is important to have both fresh backups for instant restores and data archives for regulatory and compliance purposes. Each successful backup session creates a recovery point you can roll back to, and the retention policy defines the number of recovery points you want to retain. NAKIVO Backup & Replication relies on the grandfather-father-son (GFS) retention scheme. This scheme allows you to rotate recovery points on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis to save storage space while making sure you avoid retention gaps.