Large NAS Backups
Backing up large NAS filers from Isilon and NetApp can be challenging. DataPivot provides clients strategies and several options for backing up large file shares cost effectively.
One challenge with LNB is the cost associated with utilizing the replication tools of the storage vendors (Isilon’s SyncIQ and NetApp’s Snapmirror for example). Another problem is the inherent risk of relying on snapshots for your backups. While snapshots provide a backup copy, keeping multiple snapshots can be costly and more importantly, snapshots do not protect you from Ransomware.
DataPivot has three distinct offerings to solve the LNB challenge.
Commvault – Data Protection Platform
Commvault supports mixed mode for NAS backups. Mixed mode allows for folders shared out simultaneously via CIFS and NFS. Commvault will backup the file permissions for Unix and Windows.
DataPivot can setup a Commvault media agent to backup files via CIFS and NFS, using multiple readers, to allow a fast initial streaming backup and subsequent synthetic full backups. If files need to be restored, Commvault will set the appropriate Unix and/or Windows file permissions.
Backups can be sent to S3 storage - whether in the cloud or on-prem. We recommend considering Object Lock with S3 if ransomware is a concern. Traditional tape is also an option.
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A good first step to consider is using Commvault’s Activate to identify and classify your file data. Activate provides insight into your data such as storage consumption by user, file type, age and tree size. Activate will also lower operating costs by identifying obsolete or redundant data.
Druva – SaaS backups built in AWS
Another option to evaluate is a SaaS solution from Druva. Druva’s Phoenix offering deploys quickly, without hardware and utilizes Druva’s infrastructure build in AWS.
Druva is built on a metadata-powered incremental approach which eliminates repeated scans of files and directories.
Data is encrypted in-flight and at rest. Deduplication conceals reference data and meta data. Isolated and immutable backups are protected with envelope encryption.
Nasuni – A cloud first approach to file sharing
Nasuni is a SaaS solution that consolidates network attached storage and file servers in cloud storage, delivering infinite file sharing capacity, built in backup, multi-office file synchronization, and local file server performance.
Rather than refresh your on-prem NAS, file servers, backup, and DR, Nasuni can consolidate home directories and team shares in low-cost object storage from AWS, Azure, Google, or Cloudian. Nasuni VMs can cache copies of frequently used files wherever fast, LAN-speed access is needed. Because Nasuni uses object storage as its backing store, it costs about 50% less than traditional products. Nasuni can sync and lock files across any number of locations to provide a unified namespace for truly global file sharing.
Whatever your backup/recovery requirements are for large NAS storage, DataPivot has you covered.
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