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 2003 R2
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
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
Backup Solution for Physical Windows Servers, Desktops & Laptops in Vembu ImageBackup
Vembu Universal Recovery Tools – Free Granular Recovery Tool for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, SharePoint and Microsoft AD.
Instant File-level Recovery using Vembu ImageBackup
| Vembu BDR Suite Free Edition |
Vembu BDR Suite | |
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| Vembu ImageBackup for Windows Server Backup and Replicate Unlimited Server |
$0 | $180 per server/annum |
| Vembu OffsiteDR for Windows Server (Optional) Replicate On-premise Backup Copy to Offsite/DR Site |
– | $45 per server/annum |
| Vembu CloudDR for Windows Server (Optional) Replicate On-premises Backup Copy to Vembu Cloud |
– | as low as $0.05 per GB/month see below |
| Vembu BDR360 for Windows Server (Optional) Centralized Monitoring & Management |
– | $30 per server/annum |
| Try Now | Download Free Trial |
Physical Windows Server Backup |
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| Features | Free Edition | Paid Edition | Notes |
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| Backup | |||
| Full Image backup |  |
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Backup the entire machine including the operating system, applications and data |
| Backup selected disks and drives | |
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The user can backup only the particular disk or drive of need |
| Backup MBR & GPT Partitions | |
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The GPT partitioned disks or disks more than 2TB will also be backed up |
| Backup disks more than 2 TB | |
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The disks which are more than 2 TB can also backed up using Vembu ImageBackup |
| Backup VMs with Pass-through disks | |
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Backup VMs with pass-through disks using Vembu ImageBackup |
| Backup VMs with Raw device mapping (RDM) | |
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Backup VMs with Raw device mapping (RDM) disks using Vembu ImageBackup |
| Application Aware Backup Processing | |
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Create application consistent, image-level backups with advanced Application-Aware processing (including transaction log truncation) |
| Near CDP (Continuous Data Protection) | |
Incremental backup can be scheduled every 15 mins to ensure the RPO < 15 mins | |
| Changed Block Tracking (CBT) | |
Only the blocks which have changed since the previous backup are tracked and the changed blocks are alone backed up in the successive backup | |
| Forever incremental | |
After the successful full backup, one can run the incremental backup Forever | |
| Advanced Reverse Incremental | |
Vembu has its own file system VembuHIVE on storage targets, it creates bootable full virtual disks (VMDK, VHD and KVM) for all recovery points without using any additional resources | |
| Automatic Backup Scheduling | |
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Backups can be automatically scheduled as per the user’s flexibility |
| Retention Policies | |
User can retain any number of recovery points based on choices of his own | |
| Backup persistent data | |
Any changes made during the Quick boot session is also stored down as persistent data and it can be used during the permanent restore | |
| Edit existing backup job configuration | |
Backup jobs can be Re-configured any number of times as per the user needs | |
| Recovery | |||
| Bare metal Recovery | |
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Recover the backed up image data to a new hard-drive using Vembu Recovery CD |
| Disk Level Recovery | |
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Recover the backed up image data to a new hardware directly from BDR server |
| File Level Recovery | |
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Individual files and folders can be easily recovered from the image backup instead of restoring the whole machine for the particular files or folder |
| Quick VM Recovery to VMware | |
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The backed up image data will be instantly booted on ESXi |
| Quick VM Recovery to Hyper-V | |
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The backed up image data will be instantly booted on Hyper-V | Quick VM Recovery to KVM | |
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The backed up image data will be instantly booted on KVM host |
| Instant Granular Recovery for Microsoft Exchange | |
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Restore individual exchange mails or user mailboxes using the Vembu Universal Explorer without restoring entire machine |
| Instant Granular Recovery for Microsoft SQL | |
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Restore the individual databases or tables using Vembu Universal Explorer without restoring entire machine |
| Instant Granular Recovery for Microsoft SharePoint | |
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Restore the SharePoint sites and documents using Vembu Universal Explorer without restoring entire SharePoint machine |
| Instant Granular Recovery for Microsoft Active Directory | |
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Restore the user roles and other AD objects using Vembu Universal Explorer without restoring entire AD machine |
| Cross platform Migration (P2V) | |
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The backed up image data can be migrated to the hypervisors such as VMware ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V |
| Management | |||
| Web based management console | |
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The backups are configured and edited from a single web console |
| Reports and email notifications | |
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Status report of all backup schedules will be available in a single page and the same can be emailed to users |
| Multiple storage location | |
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Storage devices such as Local, SAN, NAS and DAS can be used for storage purpose and Vembu supports all such filesystems for storage purpose |
| Scale out storage repository | |
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Based on the storage Utilization the storage devices can be easily scaled out |
| In-built Compression & Deduplication | |
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Backup files are stored on the backup server after compression & deduplication to reduce the storage needs |
| End-to-end encryption | |
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The backed up data is encrypted against the known threats using AES-256 bit encryption algorithm |
| Automated Backup Verification | |
Verify the recoverability of the backed up images and screenshot of the booted Image backup will be mailed to administrators | |
| OffsiteDR Replication | |
The Backed up data will be replicated to an offsite location for Disaster recovery | |
| CloudDR Replication | |
The Backed up data will be replicated to Vembu Cloud for Disaster recovery | |
| WAN Acceleration | |
Only the compressed, encrypted and deduplicated blocks are sent offsite for replication, resulting in a significant decrease in the amount of data transfer | |
| Bandwidth Throttling | |
The bandwidth of the backup job can be throttled to reduce the network traffic during peak production hours | |
| Vembu BDR360 for centralized backup server management | |
Manage all backups from different clients through a single console |
Vembu Cloud Storage Fee
| Storage Packages / Subscription Period |
250GB | 500GB | 1000GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $30 | $54 | $96 |
| 1 Year | $300 | $540 | $960 |
| 2 Year | $540 | $972 | $1,728 |
| 3 Year | $720 | $1,296 | $2,304 |
| 5 Year | $900 | $1,620 | $2,880 |
** Subscription license includes product updates, upgrades and standard technical support during the subscription period.
** Technical support is available for FREE desktop image backup at $45/desktop/year
Vembu BDR Suite Free Edition
Vembu BDR Suite
per server/annum
per server/annum
per server/annum
Vembu Cloud Storage Fee
| Storage Packages / Subscription Period |
250GB | 500GB | 1000GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $30 | $54 | $96 |
| 1 Year | $300 | $540 | $960 |
| 2 Year | $540 | $972 | $1,728 |
| 3 Year | $720 | $1,296 | $2,304 |
| 5 Year | $900 | $1,620 | $2,880 |
** Subscription license includes product updates, upgrades and standard technical support during the subscription period.
** Technical support is available for FREE desktop image backup at $45/desktop/year
