Enterprise Cloud Backup: 3-in-1 Local, Online and Remote Server Backup

The three components of next generation online server backup are the backup itself, system snapshots, and replication of your data offsite.

Backup: Zetta's online server backup solution uses the award-winning ZettaMirror software, with specific plugins for file servers, Exchange, SQL, and VMware, Hyper-V and multi-platform support for 18 different flavors of Windows, Linux, and Mac. Online server backup using ZettaMirror enables automated incremental backups with configurable retention settings.

Snapshots: Snapshots are Versioning-Enabled Backup copies that capture the state of your data at a point in time. Snapshots allow for online server backup with a consistent backup state across your entire system, with granular versioning. Zetta's snapshots use byte-level change detection to optimize the amount of data being transferred across your network during each daily online server backup job.

Replication: Zetta pairs snapshots with replication to provide the most efficient disaster recovery capability. Rather that storing your snapshots compressed, or in a proprietary format, replication makes your backup a fully instantiated file system – in its native format – so disaster recovery becomes as easy as pulling a file off a file server.

Learn More about the 10 Online Server Backup Essentials in this interactive guide and whitepaper.

Cloud backup services enable an extra layer of offsite data protection to your existing local backups to avoid damage from natural disasters like floods and tornadoes, or human errors like theft and accidents. Cloud backup services that use replication – syncing to the cloud -- is the best way to secure data in a safe and timely manner. Cloud backup services deliver automated daily backups, shorter backup time, and the ability to recover data from different locations using a web browser.

Zetta’s cloud backup service provides instant, secure backup to the cloud so you can manage backups and data recovery from anywhere. When dealing with a live disaster scenario, having access to your replicated files means your business can continue. Zetta has cloud backup security features in place to ensure your data is safe in the cloud:

• Data is encrypted both in transit and at rest for end-to-end security
• Data is stored using RAIN-6 (Redundant Array of Independent Nodes) to ensure data is always available even if storage nodes go down
• File level hashing to validate data
• SSAE-16 audited data centers and support
• Regulatory compliance – HIPAA, FINRA, FIRPA, SEC 17A-4, or SOX
• User and group level access control
• Authentication and logging off all access to data

So your business can get the most functionality from Zetta’s cloud backup service, the award-winning DataProtect software installs on servers and laptops that communicate directly with the cloud, no appliance is required.

Zetta’s 3-in-1 online backup and disaster recovery solution offers options that allow you to recover data to different servers at different sites using the management portal. Zetta DataProtect is designed with three built-in disaster recovery solutions: the ZettaMirror software, a web browser, and a mounted drive.

ZettaMirror
ZettaMirror is online backup software that replicates data creating a second copy that is always available online at all times. ZettaMirror consistently syncs your backup data with your primary set of data to save time and IT effort. The software can be used on multiple servers and does not require additional costs – you only pay for the amount of data that is being stored.

Web-Based Recovery
In the event of a disaster, online backup is going to be the most important disaster recovery solution for your business. If your data center has been damaged by a fire or tornado, for example, all that is needed to retrieve lost data is a web browser and Zetta’s system management portal. The portal allows users to select the system they way to restore, then the snapshot of that particular system will provide a link to a list of files for that system.

Mounted Drive
A group of files are placed in a files system structure accessible to the user in the event that the data is lost. The user simply selects the network drive and pastes the URL in a web browser to access the data.

Zetta’s DataProtect solution provides complete data backup services to small, mid-sized, enterprises, and MSPs. Zetta DataProtect replaces manual, in-house data backup processes with a 3-in-1 online backup solution by delivering four components of data backup:

• Online Backup is a remote, online backup service that provides a system for backing up files from servers and laptops within your business. With Zetta, incremental backups are completed utilizing WAN Traffic Deduplication to significantly reduce duplicate copies and multi-threaded data transfers online.

• Disaster Recovery is the most critical part of data backup since backups are worthless if data can’t be recovered. Zetta’s snapshot and replication approach to disaster recovery provides consistent backup across the entire system.

• Offsite Data Storage ensures that data lost in your data center or onsite does not corrupt or destroy backup data. Zetta provides two storage centers – in both the West Coast and the East Coast – for a greater level of data protection.

• Compliance regulations are set in place for all data backup services. For those companies subject to HIPAA, FINRA, FIRPA, SEC 17A-4, or SOX – no data backup service is complete until it’s compliant. Zetta’s audited data handling procedures and logged access meet these compliance regulations and more.

Learn more about Zetta’s complete 3-in-1 data backup services.

Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are tasked with managing multiple clients as well as their data. Zetta DataProtect offers MSPs enterprise-grade data backup, archiving and disaster recovery while providing a centralized web console for easy management.

The Multi-Tenant Management Console for MSPs has simplified the process of MSP backup for multiple clients. The centralized console allows users to backup and recover client data and provisions new client accounts from a single browser tab, without driving to the client site.

In addition to the console, Zetta DataProtect provides streamlined deployment for offices, automated backups, and instant recovery so MSPs can access data instantly. This enables significantly less management time and lowers the cost of backup for clients since there is no appliance to buy or deploy.

Hardware failures, viruses, natural disasters, human error, or theft are all ways in which your data can be lost – and are exactly the disasters that offsite backup protects against.

Offsite backup lessons the chances of a loss due to a disaster like a fire or a power outage because the data is always at a different, secure location.

Zetta DataProtect offers an all-in-one offsite backup solution that combines local and offsite backup, archiving, and disaster recovery to ensure complete protection of data. Data is available to you online so you have complete access but the data is also stored offsite to ensure protection from disaster.

Learn more about offsite and remote server backup here.

Zetta offers an affordable Windows server backup solution that provides local and online backup, archiving, and disaster recovery. Data is backed up and archived from virtual and physical servers and includes technology to centralize backup management.

Plug-ins:
Zetta’s Windows server backup has plug-ins for Hyper-V, SQL, Exchange, and System State. Snapshot replication and technology is used to ensure that data is available at all times.

Accessibility:
Zetta’s web-based backup is user-friendly and designed to make data backup simple and easy to manage. The user interface makes setup and configuration easy, enabling users to configure backup schedules, make provisions, and access data.

Technology:
• 256-bit encryption in transit and at rest
• 99.99995% reliability and 100% recovery
• Mounted drive letter access to backed up data
• Automated daily backups
• All-in-one backup, snapshot, and replication of data

Virtualization has created a need for virtual server backup solutions that work for both virtual and physical servers. Zetta’s integrated and affordable DataProtect offers a single solution to back up both your physical and virtual servers – so there is no need to purchase separate backup products.

VM-specific backup solutions were created because of the complex characteristics of backing up VMs - which are subject to crashes and power outages. This has turned out to be costly and difficult to implement alongside existing backup solutions. Zetta’s enterprise-grade local and online backup and disaster recovery service offers complete backup of all servers at an price that is 5X lower that using multiple backup products.

Zetta provides complete virtual server backup with protected, automated dual path backup to local and online storage. The local backup will enable instant recovery while the online backup will serve as protection in the event of a disaster. Plug-ins for VMware integration ensures that as VMs change physical locations, there is never a problem backing up or recovering data.

SQL server backup is essential for protecting the critical data stored in your SQL database. Backing up your SQL server minimizes potential risk and helps protect against data loss that is caused by a variety of disasters. Zetta’s SQL server backup feature, part of our DataProtect, provides complete backup and disaster recovery.

Traditional database backup products use “full, differential, and log” modes. A full backup does just what it says – backup everything. A differential mode can be smaller and faster to recover while picking up all of the changes since the last full backup. A log mode is essentially a list of changes made in the database since the last backup.

ZettaMirror is a lightweight software agent that transmits the pages that have been changed to the Zetta service. The changes are restored on our end which results in the most recent backup being available. The technology behind ZettaMirror updates data efficiently and provides an improved solution to SQL server backup.

The critical data on NetApp filers needs to be backed up but NetApp backup solutions have historically been very expensive and only provide limited functionality. Zetta DataProtect for NetApp delivers a cloud-based offsite backup, archiving, and disaster recovery for significantly less while still offering functionality and easy accessibility.

By replacing costly, labor-intensive processes that NetApp requires, Zetta is able to provide a more flexible solution that doesn’t require extra hardware or third-party backup software. Zetta’s snapshot and replication technology allows files to be retrieved granularly online and the flexible recovery allows you to recover data to other servers.

All of this creates an affordable and easy choice for companies who can’t afford a 2nd NetApp filer and want one solution for NetApp backup.