Hi community members,
Are you aware of and can recommend any decent tool to automate DRP?
*Some organizations still have their own data center and back applications reside there.
Arpio is an excellent tool for DR Orchestration for AWS-based solutions. See Arpio.io.
We use a combination of Veeam for Hyper-V Hosts and VMs and Zerto for VMware VMs. Everything is on-site except for Exchange which was moved to the cloud when we upgraded to M365 with a backup also in the cloud.
For automation, both Zerto and Veeam work with minor help and can be integrated with scripts to help the process.
The benefit is they can be tested on a regular basis in a sandbox area to make sure the backups in the DR site are valid without interrupting current backups or production. Complete Failover accomplished within an hour with data loss of 15 minutes. (Careful, as the fail back to production takes much longer, estimated 8 hours! Unless you prepare a second failover on the production side then you are back to only an hour with minor interruption of data loss during the moving process.)
Veeam and Commvault have very good tools for DRP automation.
Here is a user endorsement for
Quorum Backup & Recovery
It depends what you mean by 'Automation'. We use a backup product that does all the usual stuff (incremental backup to the cloud on a schedule, holds local copies, encryption blah blah etc. etc.). If you know what you are doing you can build yourself a recovery appliance that holds the latest backup as a stand-by image in a ready-to-start form. Every time the system detects a fresh backup increment, the stand-by increments to match, so you always have the latest backup of your system one click away from starting up. What's neat is that you can have this recovery appliance on or off the target site - or both, or as many locations as you want. We normally have the recovery appliance on the client's site (in a different part of the building) and also keep a copy on an appliance here in our machine room. It's so easy to do that I test-boot the latest stand-by images (for most of our clients) on a weekly basis just to validate the process. (A backup is only as good as your last validation...) And it can all be managed remotely!
Are you talking about virtualized machines or physical machines? If they are virtualized, on which platform they are virtualized? VMware or HyperV?
For VMware platform I can recommend vSphere Replication & SRM.
What backup software are you using ? Both Veeam & Druva comes with DR orchestration
Hi community,
What top trends do you predict about Backup software/solutions for 2022?
Hi,
I'm looking for a piece of advice. Does anyone have experience on how to "backup" Isilon (Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon)) content with Veeam Backup & Replication or an alternative tool?
Thanks!