Windows Server Backup
Feature Highlights
- Quick VM Recovery to ensure business continuity
- Instant File level Recovery for windows server backups
- CBT Driver for high performance incremental backups
- VembuHIVE, an in-house File System for efficient backup storage
- Backup Windows Servers with pass-through disks
- Supports MBR and GPT disks greater than 2TB
- Application-aware technology for consistent application Backups
- Automated Backup verification
- Flexible & Configurable Retention Policies
- Bare-metal Recovery by using Vembu Recovery CD
Supported Platforms
Vembu ImageBackup supports following Windows Server versions:
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows Server 2008
Windows Server Backup Architecture
- Vembu ImageBackup uses Microsoft VSS technology to take backup of physical windows server
- Upon configuring backup job, Vembu ImageBackup initiates Microsoft VSS to backup windows server by taking snapshot of the selected disks or full machine and it transfers the data to the Vembu BDR backup server
- The blocks will be compressed and encrypted before it leaves the source Windows Server
- Vembu ImageBackup uses its proprietary CBT driver to track the modification since the previous backup and only the modified blocks will be transferred to the backup server as per the incremental schedule
Changed Block Tracking
During incremental Schedule, Vembu’s proprietary Image Backup driver tracks the blocks of the hard drive that are changed since the previous windows server backup, rather than backing up entire drive or disk, which helps in improving the performance of incremental backup by reducing the size of the increment data to be sent.
RPO and RTO < 15mins
Vembu ImageBackup offers near continuous data protection with the RPO less than 15 minutes for the windows server backups without affecting the productivity of data center. Vembu also ensures the RTO less than 15 minutes during the disaster for the corrupted or crashed windows server using our unique recovery options like Quick VM Recovery and File level Recovery.
Flexible Backup Scheduling
For every backup job, you can specify the backup schedule of your own choice like hourly, daily or weekly intervals as per the convenience and this schedules can also be edited and reconfigured at any time.
Automated Backup Verification
Backed up data should be recoverable, If not, it is worthless. Vembu provides the ability to run automatic backup verification for all Windows Servers backups. Backup verification can be done automatically after the completion of every backup schedule or once in a day.
In this process, backed up Windows Servers will be booted and the screenshot of boot screen will be captured and sent to administrators via email.
Application-aware Backup
Application-aware process is to create consistent database snapshots by quiescing the applications using Microsoft VSS.
This option allows you to stop the backup if any one of application writers (Eg: MS Exchange Writer) were in an unstable state or if VSS writers were not processed successfully after the snapshot.
Along with application consistency, it will truncate the logs based on the configuration
Advanced Reverse Incremental
Vembu BDR server creates a virtual full backup for every incremental backups after the successful completion of each incremental schedule by merging it with the previous incrementals and full backup, thus making all the incrementals ready for immediate restoration.
Quick VM Recovery
Quick VM Recovery restores your windows server back to the production environment instantly from the backup data without actually restoring the entire machine.
Quick VM recovery help in minimizing the downtime and it also ensures the RTO less than 15 minutes.
You can start continuing your work using the instantly recovered windows server and once you are ready with your source machine, you can recover it back along with all the modifications made during the Quick VM session.
Bare-metal Recovery
Using Vembu Recovery CD utility, you can easily recover the crashed physical or virtual windows server directly to the same or new hardware from the backed up image data.
This ensures the recovery of the crashed or corrupted computer to an earlier state without installing or configuring your operating system settings and the data associated with it.
Cross Platform Migration
Planning to migrate your physical windows servers to virtual environments like VMware or Hyper-V and looking for a cost effective solution with less downtime and reduced workload?
Vembu has an inbuilt solution to migrate your windows server from one computing environment to other.
Since Vembu supports the creation of VMDK, VHD, and RAW files from the backup data, the IT admins can easily migrate their windows servers from physical to virtual environment or vice versa without affecting their productivity (P2V and V2P)
Efficient Storage Management
- Supports SAN, NAS and DAS
- Automatically scales out the storage device
OffsiteDR Seed Migration
Offsite seed migration makes use of local storage drive to migrate the backup data from the local BDR server to an offsite server for the purpose of disaster recovery. As transferring the data using a local storage medium will reduce the bandwidth requirement and also the time required to transfer the data.
Disk Management Mount
Disk management mount is an unique recovery feature of Vembu BDR Suite for VM & Windows Server backups, which will virtually mount the backed up data on the disk management of the local machine and users can granularly recover the required files instantly from the mounted virtual disks.
Native Tape Backup Support
With the native tape backup support of vembu, you can Implement the best known 3-2-1 backup strategy of having 3 copies of your data in 2 different storage media and 1 backup copy offsite. Vembu let the IT admins to store a copy of backup data on Tape media’s, which can be used for long-term archival and Disaster Recovery purposes.
Backup-level encryption
With Vembu’s backup-level encryption, you can leverage the data security to next level by providing a separate encryption password for each and every backup job. All your sensitive data are safe with Vembu and it is necessary to enter the set password while restoring or modifying the backup jobs.
FREE Vembu Universal Recovery Tools
Helps you to recover individual mailboxes or emails from Microsoft Exchange, recover databases / tables from Microsoft SQL Server, restore individual documents from Microsoft SharePoint and recover individual policy or users from Microsoft Active Directory.
Vembu Explorer for Microsoft Exchange
Restore following items instantly from the backup job,
- Instantly restore the mailboxes, emails, notes, contacts, etc. from EDB file without restoring the entire server or database
- Ability to explore and search the exchange databases
- Restore deleted or corrupted mailboxes or emails
- Supports exporting mailboxes or emails into .pst format. Later you can use the .pst file to import the mailboxes or emails into Microsoft Outlook
Vembu Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server
Restore following items instantly from the backup job,
- Restore entire databases to specific point-in-time
- Restore individual database or table instantly from SQL Server backup
- Supports restoring the databases or tables to same or different SQL Server
- Supports exporting the structure or schema of the selecting object’s
- Export the schema and data of the selecting object’s
- You can either export the records into XLS or SQL format and later you can import the data into MSSQL Server Management Studio
Vembu Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory
Restore following items instantly from the backup job,
- User accounts with password
- Restore user accounts with password
- Restore Group Policy Objects (GPOs)
- Restore Microsoft DNS Records
- Configuration Partition Objects and lot more..
- Supports exporting containers as .ldf format
- Restore the selected containers in same or different machines
- Restore or export multiple objects at same time
Vembu Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint
Restore following items instantly from the backup job,
- Ability to browse Microsoft SharePoint database without restoring the entire server or database
- Supports exporting individual items such as sites, documents, libraries and lists
- Restore SharePoint sites to the same or different machine
Product Datasheets
Sneek Peek into Vembu BDR Suite v3.8
Comprehensive Backup and Faster Restores using Vembu BDR Suite v3.8
How to ensure Modern Data Protection for your business
** Technical support is available for FREE desktop image backup at $45/desktop/year
