# About Storware Backup & Recovery Storware Backup & Recovery is a comprehensive, enterprise-grade solution designed for backup, snapshot management, and disaster recovery across virtualized environments and cloud infrastructures. Built on the principle of **"freedom of choice",** it provides organizations with the flexibility to implement tailored data protection strategies while ensuring resilience, security, and operational efficiency. ## **Key Features and Capabilities** * **Multi-Platform Compatibility** – Supports a wide range of leading virtualization platforms. * **Cloud-Native Integration** – Seamlessly integrates with public, private, and hybrid cloud environments, ensuring reliable data protection across distributed infrastructures. * **Full and Incremental Backups** – Efficient data backup strategies to optimize storage usage and minimize downtime. * **Synthetic backup destinations** - Generates synthetic full backups directly on the backup destination, reducing restore time. * **Instant-restore -** Offers instant VM restore capabilities by mounting backup data directly from the repository - additionally, data can be migrated in the background to the target environment * **Snapshot Management** – Automates and orchestrates snapshot creation, retention, and recovery processes to enhance data protection while reducing RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective). * **Both Agentless and Agent-based Architecture** – Ensures minimal system overhead while simplifying deployment and maintenance. * **Immutable Backup Storage** – Prevents ransomware attacks and unauthorized modifications by enabling immutable storage configurations, ensuring compliance with security best practices. * **Policy-Based Automation** – Provides granular control over backup scheduling, retention policies, and data lifecycle management, allowing organizations to customize backup strategies according to business needs. * **Disaster Recovery Readiness** – Enables fast and reliable recovery options, including full VM restores, file-level recovery, and instant VM boot capabilities. * And many, many more - you can find more details [here](https://docs.storware.eu/overview/main-features)! With **Storware Backup & Recovery**, organizations gain a powerful, future-proof data protection solution that enhances business continuity, mitigates risks, and ensures compliance with regulatory requirements. Whether deployed on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments, Storware delivers reliability, efficiency, and control over critical data assets. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.storware.eu/readme.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.