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Disk-based backup refers to technology that allows one to back up large amounts of data disk snapshot de a disk storage unit. It is the technology which is often supplemented by tape drives for data archival or replication to another facility for disaster recovery. Additionally, backup-to-disk has several advantages over traditional tape backup for both technical and business reasons. With continued improvements in storage devices to provide faster access and higher storage capacity,^[1] a prime consideration for backup and restore operations, backup-to-disk will become more prominent in organizations.^[2]

Technical Advantages[edit]

There are technical advantages to backup-to-disk technology.^{[citation needed]} One of the main advantages is the speed at which backups can be performed to the disk appliance. Backing up data to a backup-to-disk technology can be up to four times faster than traditional SCSI tape devices. While the new Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) connected tape drives are faster than the original tape drives, the disk snapshot de appliance is still faster than most tape technologies. These faster backup times lead to shorter backup windows allowing the technology to backup the data while in a smaller amount of time thus increasing the window for processing which is also a benefit for the business.^[3]

Another advantage that backup-to-disk offers is data deduplication and compression. The disk appliances offer either de-duplication at the source or at the destination. The deduplication at the destination is faster and requires less performance overhead on the source host. The deduplication requires less disk space on the disk appliance as it stores only one copy of the possible multiple copies of one file on the network.

Many of the backup-to-disk technologies advertise up to 15 to 1 compression ratios. This also allows the information technology department to store more data on less disk space. With deduplication a disk appliance with 5 terabytes of raw disk space can store as much as 30 terabytes of compressed and de-duplicated data.

Business Advantages[edit]

Disaster Recovery[edit]

The most important advantage that backup-to-disk provides for the business, disk snapshot de, and for the technology department, is faster recovery of the data. Most businesses today have several terabytes of data that the business must be able to retain in the event of a disaster. This disaster can be as simple as server hardware failures to as severe as a regional disaster, such as a natural disaster. For the localized disaster the disk appliance allows the technology department to hold one or two weeks of backups, depending on the size of the disk appliance and the amount of data being backup, disk snapshot de, which allows for very quick recovery.

Business Continuity[edit]

Preparation for disaster requires the creation of an organizational Business Continuity Plan (BCP). The BCP describes the guidelines for system continuity and recoverability. Disk based backups facilitate rapid system recovery. A backup-to-disk system can replicate data backups to a device at another location. This can be beneficial if disk snapshot de organization has designated the location as the recovery site. Backup-to-disk technology can greatly benefit an organization in continuing to do business if a disaster damages facilities and technology.

Products[edit]

There are several Disk Backup solutions on the market today. Below are a few of the industry leading devices.

Dell EMC[edit]

Dell EMC offers two disk backup devices. The Data Domain device, which EMC acquired from Data Domain in 2009.^[4] The Data Domain device de-duplicates the data at the destination, which reduces the overhead on the host. With throughput up to 68 TB/hour, Data Domain systems make it possible to complete more backups in less time and provide faster, more reliable restores. The Data Domain Operating System (DD OS) is the intelligence behind Data Domain systems that makes them the industry’s most reliable and cloud-enabled protection storage.

The second Dell EMC offering is Avamar: this unit de-duplicates data at the source via an agent on the host which offers savings on bandwidth utilization during backup.^[5]

Both of these units offer site-to-site replication.

HPE[edit]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise(HPE) offers data storage backup with its HPE StoreOnce portfolio. HPE StoreOnce can be offered as a virtual storage appliance (VSA) or a disk based hardware appliance. The StoreOnce VSA is licensed at 4 TB, 10 TB and 50 TB capacity points and can be deployed on any x86 Industry Standard Server with certain specification requirements. The disk based StoreOnce Backup appliances have six models ranging from a StoreOnce 3100 (5.5TB usable) to a StoreOnce 6500 (1.7PB usable).^[6]

HPE StoreOnce with HPE StoreOnce Catalyst is the only federated deduplication solution, and it provides disk-based backup for IT environments, from the smallest remote sites to the largest enterprises. You can reduce the amount of space needed to store backup disk snapshot de by 95% and choose between powerful dedicated appliances for larger offices and data centers, and flexible virtual appliances for smaller and remote offices.^[7]

Quantum[edit]

Quantum offers several models for disk backup solutions. The DXi-V series is disk snapshot de entry-level unit that stores from 1-2TB of data. The midrange level units are the DXi4000 and DXI6000series, while the enterprise level unit is the DXi8500.

All of the offerings from Quantum have de-duplication, compression, and remote site replication.^[8]

Rdiff-backup[edit]

Rdiff-backup is an open source product that provides reverse-delta disk-to-disk backups.

Rsync-incremental[edit]

Rsync-incremental is not a product per se but rather a technique using the open source program rsync with the—link-dest parameter. This functionality is very similar to Time Machine on macOS.

Time Machine[edit]

On macOS, Time Machine provides a disk-to-disk backup solution to create incremental backups of files that can be restored at later dates.

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to quickly and easily restore disk backups on your Server subscription.

A backup is a copy of data made in case data is lost and needs to be recovered. This tutorial explains how to restore disks linked to services like a remote desktop or a server.

The current backup options consist of the following:

• Default backups of server disks based on a pre-set (non-editable) frequency on the same CPD as the service:
  • Every hour [previous 5 hours]
  • Every day [previous 14 days at 00:10]
  • Every week [previous 8 weeks – Sundays at 00:15]
• Manualbackups. These are optional security copies, snapshots of the disk, that can be made weekly (for up to a maximum of 30 weeks) through the IaaS orchestration platform.

The process to restore either of these backups is the same. This tutorial shows how to restore a disk regardless of the type of backup used.

How to Restore a Disk Using a Backup?

Before you begin:

To successfully complete this tutorial, you will need:

Step 1. Locate the disk restore points

On the main dashboard, click on the top of the Servers card (1) to open the Servers subscription page.

Incremental snapshots provide differential capability – a unique capability available only in Azure Managed Disks. It enables customers and independent solution vendors (ISV) to build backup and disaster recovery solutions for Managed Disks. It allows you to get the changes between two snapshots of the same disk, thus copying only changed data between two snapshots across regions, reducing time and cost for backup and disaster recovery. Read more about incremental snapshots here

In this sample, we demonstrate the following:

• How to fetch incremental snapshots created for a disk in an Azure resource group
• How to generate shared access signature (SAS) URI for a snapshot for getting the changes since the last snapshot
• How to download the first incremental snapshot as a base blob in another region.
• How to copy only the changes since the last snapshot to the base blob.
• How to create snapshots on the base blob after the changes are copied. These snapshots represent your point in time backup of the disk in another region.

Prerequisites

• If you don't have a Microsoft Azure subscription you can get a FREE trial account here.
• Use the article here to create incremental snapshots for a managed disk that you want to backup
• Create an Azure Storage account where you want to store your backups using the article here
• Follow the instructions here to generate a connection string for the storage account

Setup

Runnning the sample

• Set the value of the following variables in the Main method in Program.cs file
  • subscriptionId: The subscription Id where the incremental snapshots of the managed disk are created
  • resourceGroupName: The resource group name where incremental snapshots of the managed disks are created
  • diskName: The name of the disk that is backed up with incremental snapshots in the source region
  • targetStorageAccountName: The name of the storage account in the target region where incremental snapshots from source region are copied to a base blob.
  • targetStorageConnectionString: The connection string of the storage account.
  • targetContainerName: The name of the container where base blob is stored on the target storage account
  • targetBaseBlobName: The name of the base VHD (blob) used for storing the backups in the target storage account
• Use the steps here to create a service principal in your subscription. Please note down the tenantId, disk snapshot de, applicationId and secret key for the service principal. Set the following variables in the Format factory crack keygen method in Program.cs file
  • tenantId
  • applicationId
  • applicatioSecretKey
• Hit F5 to run the sample

Key concepts

• Learn about Azure Managed Disks here
• Learn about incremental snapshots of Managed Disks here

Contributing

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What is a disk image and what is a disk clone? A disk clone is a 1:1 copy of a disk on another disk, so that the clone can be used immediately to replace the original hard drive. An image backup is a file containing the contents of a disk. When you restore from total loss, you will need to copy the disk image contents to the new drive. A cloned hard disk, however, is already cloned so it’s ready to go. The steps below are for the disk imaging option. If instead you wanted to clone a hard disk, you would select another disk as a target.

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Disk to Disk Backup and Disk Cloning versus Disk Imaging

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