Though backups are securely stored in backup server, there exists an ever threatening risk of hardware failure that occurs without prior alert. Such disasters if strikes, will put the safety measures of backup data under question and the possibilities of a natural disaster will result in even worse outcome such as site level demolition.
Hence it is recommended for companies to have an added copy of their business critical data in cloud storage. CloudDR option with Vembu allow users to send business data offsite securely to Vembu cloud servers. In the event of On-premise server crash or onsite disaster, CloudDR option allows instant data recovery.
There are multiple options for restores including booting a live VM on our cloud, anytime anywhere restore via internet or restored data can be downloaded to USB drive and shipped.
Key Benefits
Live Data Transfer
Instantly transfer backup server data to the cloud. Backed up data is seamlessly transferred to Vembu Cloud.
Instant Disaster Recovery
The entire backup server can be rebuilt from scratch with the help of CloudDR. An on-premise server is rebuilt within a few minutes.
Geographically Redundant
Vembu CloudDR is available for the Americas, EMEA and APAC regions. Your data can be local to your region or can be globally redundant. It’s your choice.
Procedure to Set Up Cloud DR
Step 1: To enable CloudDR Vembu VMBackup server should be registered with the Vembu Portal.
Step 2 : Click the “Register” button and Provide the Vembu Portal account information
If you don’t have a Vembu Portal Account and then register with Vembu Portal. Once after registering with Vembu Portal, complete the registration with your backup server. After that Click the link Management → Cloud DR Management
Step 3 : After successful registration you can enable ‘Vembu CloudDR’.
If needed you can select ‘Replication Schedule Windows’ Settings where you can avoid the replication during the time period you specified. If your initial full backup size that need to be replicated is huge then you can copy the data in a Hard Disk Drive and ship that to AWS Amazon.
Step 4 : Click Save and Proceed to Configure Retention.
Here you can configure retention for the replicated data and restrict maximum full backup to be retained which will reduce the size of the backup images in Vembu Cloud.
Step 5 : Click Save the changes to finish CloudDR Configuration.
Once you save the configuration, replication will run as per the scheduled configuration.
To learn more about Vembu VMBackup and its features, visit here : Vembu VMBackup
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