BDRSuite – v7.0.0 Release Candidate – Support for KVM, Azure VM, Amazon EC2 & more

BDRSuite (Backup and Disaster Recovery Suite) provides backup and disaster recovery solutions for small businesses to enterprises. BDRSuite offers a range of products and services designed to help organizations protect their data and ensure business continuity. BDRSuite 7.0.0 Release candidate (RC) will be releasing soon for general availability.

Key features and components of Vembu BDRSuite includes:

1. Backup: Vembu BDR Suite allows you to back up various data sources, including virtual machines (VMs), physical servers, workstations, applications, and cloud-based resources.
2. Disaster Recovery: It provides tools for disaster recovery, allowing you to replicate data to off-site locations or cloud services to ensure data availability in case of system failures or disasters.
3. VMware, Hyper-V, and Physical Server Support: Vembu BDR Suite is often compatible with popular virtualization platforms like VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, as well as physical servers.
4. Application-Aware Backups: The suite may offer application-specific backup options for databases and other critical applications.
5. Incremental and Differential Backups: It typically supports incremental and differential backup methods to optimize storage space and backup performance.
6. Backup Storage: Vembu often provides options for on-premises and cloud-based backup storage, giving businesses flexibility in data storage and retention.
7. Flexible Recovery: You can usually perform full or granular recoveries of data, VMs, or applications.
8. Monitoring and Reporting: It includes monitoring and reporting features to track backup and recovery jobs, ensuring the integrity and success of backup operations.
9. Encryption and Security: Vembu BDR Suite typically includes encryption and security measures to protect backed-up data from unauthorized access.

What is new in BDRSuite 7.0.0 Release Candidate ?

BDRSuite 7.0.0 Release candidate (RC) offers agent-less KVM backup and recovery through KVM hypervisor. It also includes changed block tracking, automated scheduling, flexible recovery options and more. This release candidate of BDRSuite 7.0.0 Release candidate (RC) is designed exclusively for new installations. It is not suitable for use with existing installations and should not be applied as an update to them.

• Versatile VM Format Support: BDRSuite supports the download of backed-up VMs/Disks in various virtual formats, including RAW, VHD, VHDX, VMDK, and Flat-VMDK. These formats are useful for full VM recovery or VM migration to different virtualization platforms.
• Rapid VM Recovery: It allows for quick restoration of an entire KVM VM from backup in less than 15 minutes. This restoration can be performed on various hypervisors, including KVM, Hyper-V, and VMware, ensuring minimal downtime and business continuity.
• File and Folder Recovery: BDRSuite offers the option to mount the backup disk, enabling instant recovery of individual files or folders using the Disk Mount feature. This granular recovery capability simplifies the process of retrieving specific data without the need for a full VM restore.
• Incremental Backups: BDRSuite employs incremental backup techniques, capturing only the changes made since the last backup using features like Changed Block Tracking (CBT). This approach significantly reduces backup times and storage space requirements while ensuring data consistency.
• Flexible Storage Options: BDRSuite provides a wide range of storage options for storing backed-up data. You can choose to store your backups on local disks, NAS (Network Attached Storage), SAN (Storage Area Network), cloud storage services like S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud, Wasabi, and more. This flexibility allows you to tailor your storage strategy to your specific needs and budget.

Limitation: Supported Versions: QEMU 4.2.0 & above, Libvirt 6.0.0 & above

AWS Backup – As we know that BDRSuite supports Amazon EC2 backup and recovery using EC2 snapshot features. In BDRSuite 7.0.0 Release candidate (RC), we have an option to choose the backup destination as local or cloud. It also supports multiple recovery options.

BDRSuite leverages native AWS APIs and snapshots to create copies of EC2 Instances for backup and offers flexibility to store backup data in either local or cloud storage.

• Agentless EC2 Backup: BDRSuite offers agentless backup for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. This means it can back up EC2 instances without requiring additional software agents to be installed on the virtual machines.
• Application-Aware Support: BDRSuite includes application-aware support, ensuring that backups consider the state and consistency of applications running on the EC2 instances. This helps maintain data integrity during backup and recovery processes.
• Flexible Restore Options: Users have various restore options, including restoring the entire EC2 instance, recovering specific files, and potentially more granular recovery options. This flexibility allows for tailored data recovery to meet specific needs.
• Retention Policies: BDRSuite provides retention capabilities, allowing users to define and manage retention policies for snapshots and backup data. This ensures that backup data is retained for the desired duration.
• Diverse Storage Options: Users can store backups on a range of storage solutions, including local disks, Network Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Network (SAN), or cloud storage platforms like Amazon S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud, Wasabi, and others. This flexibility enables businesses to choose storage solutions that best fit their requirements and budget.
• Automated Snapshot Scheduling: The software allows for automated and scheduled snapshots for EC2 instances. This ensures that backups are taken at specified intervals, reducing the need for manual intervention and improving data protection.
• Application-Aware Processing: BDRSuite includes application-aware processing, which can be essential for ensuring the consistency of applications and databases during backup and recovery operations. This minimizes the risk of data corruption.
• Pre/Post Scripts: Users can define pre and post-backup scripts to customize backup and recovery processes further. This scripting capability can be useful for specific application requirements or workflows.
• Snapshot Storage in the Same Region: BDRSuite stores snapshots within the same region as the EC2 instances. This can be advantageous for compliance, data locality, and data access efficiency.
• Granular Restore Options: Users have the choice to restore an entire EC2 instance or specific volumes within an instance, allowing for fine-grained recovery control.

Azure Backup – BDRSuite 7.0.0 Release candidate (RC) supports Azure virtual Machine backup and recovery. Its an agent-less by leveraging Azure native API’s. It supports incremental backups, automated scheduling, flexible recovery options, and wide backup storage target compatibility

• Application-Consistent Backups for Windows VMs: BDRSuite ensures application-consistent backups for Windows VMs by utilizing Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) technology. This technology helps maintain the integrity and consistency of applications during backup operations.
• Customizable Pre/Post Scripts for Linux VMs: For Linux VMs, you have the flexibility to customize pre and post scripts, allowing for application-consistent backups tailored to specific Linux-based applications.
• Full and Incremental Backups for Azure VMs: BDRSuite initiates the first backup of Azure VMs as a full backup and subsequently performs incremental backups, capturing only the changed blocks since the last backup. This approach optimizes backup efficiency and reduces storage requirements.
• Support for Managed and Unmanaged Disks: BDRSuite supports both managed and unmanaged disks for Azure VMs, giving you the flexibility to back up and restore VMs regardless of their disk management configuration.
• Flexible Restore Options: Users can restore backed-up Azure VMs to any subscription available within their Azure account in the same region, providing flexibility in recovery options.
• Granular Volume Restore: BDRSuite enables the restoration and access of specific volumes from backup, allowing for granular recovery of data and volumes as needed.
• Quick VM Restore and Customization: BDRSuite facilitates rapid restoration of entire Azure VMs to any subscription and resource group within the Azure account. It also supports customizations such as selecting the virtual network, VM name, and power on/off settings to ensure a seamless recovery process.

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