Backup to Cloud

NAKIVO Backup & Replication allows you to send backups and backup copies to Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, generic S3-compatible storage, Microsoft Azure, Backblaze B2, and Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage.

Storing backups in the cloud provides several important benefits, including:

  • Safe backup storage: Cloud storage keeps backups available even if the local infrastructure becomes unavailable.

  • Backup immutability: Cloud backups can be made immutable to protect recovery points from ransomware attacks and accidental deletion.

  • Flexible backup storage: Cloud storage can be easily expanded as needed, eliminating the need to purchase, deploy, and maintain additional servers or storage hardware.

  • Easy and quick data recovery: Backups can be accessed at any time and from any location.

  • Affordable backup storage: Instead of building and maintaining offsite infrastructure, you can use cloud storage with your existing environment.

  • Simple backup management: The set-it-and-forget-it approach in NAKIVO Backup & Replication allows you to schedule regular backup jobs to the cloud with minimal effort.

Although cloud providers offer storage at competitive prices, NAKIVO Backup & Replication helps further reduce offsite backup costs by using features such as incremental backup, exclusion of swap files and partitions, and backup compression. With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, you can use Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, generic S3-compatible storage, Microsoft Azure, Backblaze B2, or Wasabi as either a primary or secondary backup storage destination.

How Backup to Cloud Works

A backup is a point-in-time copy of a VM or physical machine that is stored in a Backup Repository. A Backup Repository serves as the destination for backup data. NAKIVO Backup & Replication allows you to create Backup Repositories in public cloud environments such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, generic S3-compatible storage, Microsoft Azure, Backblaze B2, or Wasabi.

In NAKIVO Backup & Replication, a backup job is performed as follows:

  1. The solution automatically creates temporary snapshots of the source VMs or physical machines.

  2. Only the data blocks changed since the last backup are identified and transferred to the Backup Repository.

  3. The temporary snapshots created during the process are removed.

Backups can still be lost or damaged due to unexpected events. To address this risk, NAKIVO Backup & Replication allows you to run backup copy jobs, which create additional copies of VMware vSphere VM, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon EC2, or physical machine backups. Maintaining backup copies helps eliminate single points of failure and strengthens overall data protection.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication enables you to copy backups from one Backup Repository to another without using the source hosts, VMs, or physical machines. For more information, refer to Backup Copy.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication also includes an automated backup verification feature that reads backups at the block level, compares the data stored in the Backup Repository with data from the source machine, and verifies that the backup is consistent and recoverable in the event of a disaster.

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