Replicating Backups with Composite Storage
Cloudback allows you to leverage the power of composite storage to replicate your backups across multiple destinations, enhancing your data redundancy and disaster recovery capabilities. This article guides you through the process of setting up and managing replicated backups with Cloudback.
What is a Composite Storage?
Composite storage combines two storages: primary and secondary. Think of primary storage as the main location for your data, while secondary storage acts as a backup copy. In simpler terms, Cloudback duplicates your backup archive and stores it in both locations. This strategy distributes your data across different sites, effectively increasing data redundancy and helping you meet compliance regulations.
Benefits of Replicating Backups
Replicating backups offers several advantages:
Eliminate single points of failure: Storing backups across diverse locations ensures data remains accessible even if a single storage provider encounters issues.
Rapid disaster recovery: Replicated backups allow for swift restoration from an unaffected location, minimizing downtime and ensuring business continuity.
Compliance Adherence: It supports compliance with laws requiring multiple backup copies, ensuring legal and regulatory standards are met.
Setting Up Replicated Backups
There are three steps only:
Create a customer managed storages for a primary and secondary destination.
Create a composite storage and set primary and secondary targets.
Configure repositories to use a newly created composite storage via the Bulk operations menu.
How it works
Automatic Replication: During a backup process Cloudback automatically copies an archive to both primary and secondary destination.
All or None: If any of underlying storages fails during a backup process - the entire backup is marked to be failed and appropriate notification is sent.
Restore takes first available: During a restore process Cloudback probes storages from primary to secondary and picks the first available.
Composite storage settings win: The "Deduplication type" and "Archive type" settings configured for the individual underlying storages will be disregarded when using a composite storage. Instead, the deduplication and archive behavior will be determined by the settings applied to the composite storage itself.
Nesting capability: It is possible to embed one composite storage within another, enabling you to create a desired number of copies of a backup.
Conclusion
Replicating backups with composite storage is a flexible way to ensure data redundancy. Its straightforward setup process provides an accessible option for IT professionals at any skill level, making it a cost-effective choice. The system's adaptability allows for configuring an unlimited number of backup storages, either per repository or for the entire account, ensuring comprehensive data protection.