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 leading virtualization platforms.

• Cloud-Native Integration – Seamlessly integrates with public, private, and hybrid cloud environments, ensuring reliable data protection across distributed infrastructures.

• Incremental and Full Backups – Efficient data backup strategies to optimize storage usage and minimize downtime.

• 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).

• Agentless 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.

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.

Supported backup platforms

Virtual Machines

• Azure Stack HCI

• HC3/Scale

• Microsoft Hyper-V

• Nutanix

• Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)

• OpenNebula

• OpenShift Virtualization

• OpenStack

• Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager

• oVirt

• Proxmox VE

• Red Hat Virtualization

• SC//Platform

• VergeOS

• Virtuozzo

• VMware vSphere

• XCP-ng

• XenServer (Citrix Hypervisor)

Containers

• Kubernetes

• Proxmox VE

• Red Hat OpenShift

Cloud

• Amazon EC2

• Azure Cloud

• Google Cloud Platform / Google Compute Engine

• Microsoft 365

Storage

• Remote file system (including NAS file shares)

• Ceph RBD (with snapshot difference support)

• Nutanix Files (with Changed-File Tracking)

• Nutanix Volume Groups (with Changed-Region Tracking)

Applications

• Ready to use templates

Agent for file level backup

• Windows

  • Support for VSS

• Linux

• macOS

Advanced backup features

• Snapshot Management

• Snapshot consistent technology

• Pre/post remote command execution on VM

• Change Block Tracking (CBT) and Change file tracking (CFT) for faster incremental backups

• VM disks exclusion option

• Hyper-V direct transfer to the DataDomain (DD Boost API)

• VM automatic policy assignment based on regular expressions and tags

• Backup job prioritization

• Multi-node architecture

• Automatic task load balancing

  • Suitable for geographically distributed environments

Recovery features

• File-level restore using mountable backups

• Backup mount - RAW disks shareable over iSCSI

• Recovery plans for automated Disaster Recovery

• Automated schedules for recovery testing

• Customizable networking and disk layout during a restore

• Instant restore

  • Hyper-V

  • oVirt/RHV/OLVM

  • VMware

• Individual disk recovery

Supported backup destinations

• Filesystem based:

  • A synthetic backup provider for XFS or Dell Data Domain

  • Any mounted file system

  • Rubrik Managed Volumes

  • isoLayer (Air-Gapped Protection)

  • Catalogic vStor

• Object Storage:

  • Amazon S3 / S3-compliant storage

  • Impossible Cloud

  • Google Cloud Storage

  • Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

  • OpenStack Swift

• Enterprise-grade backup providers:

  • IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM)

  • Dell EMC Networker

  • Dell EMC Avamar

  • Veritas Netbackup

  • MicroFocus Data Protector

• Tapes

• Built-in data deduplication with Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO)

• Backup Copy - secondary backup destination to store data in more than one location

Security features

• Role-based access control (RBAC) for administrative accounts

• Audit-log for administrative actions

• Customizable logging configuration for external SIEM support

• Data-at-rest encryption for file system backup destination

• Immutable Backup that protects backup data from being encrypted by ransomware

• Air-Gap Data Protection with:

  • Rubrik Managed Volumes

  • Catalogic vStor

  • isoLayer

Other features

• Web-based central management portal

• Advanced reporting

• Event notifications using e-mail, Slack, or custom API call

• Command Line Interface

• Open API for 3rd party software integration (REST API)

• LDAP authentication

• Keycloak authetication

• OpenStack Horizon plugin

• oVirt/RHV/OLVM console integration