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Back UP Solution for Cloud Network?
Hi Everyone,
I am hoping you can help me with this.
We have several cloud servers and are going to purchase more.
The hosting company does offer several options for back up. One of the options is a server in the cloud to manage all of that but it's being stored in the same place? My management wants to know our options for backing up in the cloud.
Here is what i don't get.
In trying to work on disaster recovery here, we are looking at backing up to the cloud, these servers I am trying to get more information on now are already in the cloud, so what is the recommended way that we should be backing up our cloud servers? I can't back them up to here I don't think.
I hope that made sense, just didn't know how others are doing it.
Thank you,
Karen
I am hoping you can help me with this.
We have several cloud servers and are going to purchase more.
The hosting company does offer several options for back up. One of the options is a server in the cloud to manage all of that but it's being stored in the same place? My management wants to know our options for backing up in the cloud.
Here is what i don't get.
In trying to work on disaster recovery here, we are looking at backing up to the cloud, these servers I am trying to get more information on now are already in the cloud, so what is the recommended way that we should be backing up our cloud servers? I can't back them up to here I don't think.
I hope that made sense, just didn't know how others are doing it.
Thank you,
Karen
There are a lot of options here. Do you need files backup or images backup?
If images then easiest option is to use snapshots provided by the cloud provider. It will take quite a lot of space but you will be able to restore VMs with cloud UI.
The second option - use 3td-party tools like Cloudberry backup solutions. It allow to backup files or drives and restore it on file level if needed. Also, it provides apps backup: Sql Server and Exchange if needed. Moreover, it provides any cloud vendor support..
If images then easiest option is to use snapshots provided by the cloud provider. It will take quite a lot of space but you will be able to restore VMs with cloud UI.
The second option - use 3td-party tools like Cloudberry backup solutions. It allow to backup files or drives and restore it on file level if needed. Also, it provides apps backup: Sql Server and Exchange if needed. Moreover, it provides any cloud vendor support..
Taking this further: it's not just backup, it's a combination of backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity all rolled into a plan.
Break your environment down into services and then consider each service for the multiple ways to lose data: accidental deletion, virus/corruption, hardware failure, location failure. Identify your RTO/RPO goals.
Active directory for example: Having multiple domain controllers in multiple sites is BC. Having backups of AD from one of them is backup. You don't need to actually image backup your DC unless you need that image transferred to the offsite as part of your DR because it doesn't have a live DC.
Break your environment down into services and then consider each service for the multiple ways to lose data: accidental deletion, virus/corruption, hardware failure, location failure. Identify your RTO/RPO goals.
Active directory for example: Having multiple domain controllers in multiple sites is BC. Having backups of AD from one of them is backup. You don't need to actually image backup your DC unless you need that image transferred to the offsite as part of your DR because it doesn't have a live DC.
If I were you I'd use a backup tool to be on the safe side with the whole backup process. There are lots of tools that can be OK for you. I can advise the solution I am using CloudBerry that backs up my several servers no matter if they in the cloud or not and there is no problem to restore them all.
Also I agree with the experts here - you need to decide what types of backup you want and set up a rigid plan of the whole process.
Also I agree with the experts here - you need to decide what types of backup you want and set up a rigid plan of the whole process.
The most failsafe Disaster Recovery solution you could put in place would be having a DR environment at a different cloud provider in a different region and implementing continuous replication from one region to the other. There's only one vendor in the market that offers cross cloud DR between the major public cloud providers - www.cloudendure.com. You can see a short demo of how it works at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hDZLIxlpaM. I work for CloudEndure and have yet to see any competitor who offers cross cloud DR.
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If you do need to image backup the environment, ideally you would work at the virtualization layer with something like veeam. If you are stuck in the OS only, veeam could work, or MABS, but then you need to provide local storage in addition to remote storage, gets expensive quick. Some providers provide a low cost SMb share you can use as a veeam target that is then backend replicated offsite.