# 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 <a href="#supported-backup-platforms" id="supported-backup-platforms"></a>

### Virtual Machines <a href="#virtual-machines" id="virtual-machines"></a>

* Azure Stack HCI&#x20;
* HC3/Scale&#x20;
* Microsoft Hyper-V&#x20;
* Nutanix&#x20;
* OpenNebula&#x20;
* OpenShift Virtualization&#x20;
* OpenStack&#x20;
* Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager&#x20;
* oVirt&#x20;
* Proxmox VE&#x20;
* Red Hat Virtualization
* SC//Platform&#x20;
* VergeOS&#x20;
* Virtuozzo&#x20;
* VMware vSphere&#x20;
* XCP-ng
* XenServer (Citrix Hypervisor)

### Containers <a href="#containers" id="containers"></a>

* Kubernetes&#x20;
* Proxmox VE
* Red Hat OpenShift

### Cloud <a href="#cloud-solutions" id="cloud-solutions"></a>

* Amazon EC2
* Azure Cloud
* Google Cloud Platform / Google Compute Engine
* Microsoft 365

### Storage <a href="#storage" id="storage"></a>

* 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 <a href="#applications" id="applications"></a>

* Ready to use templates

### Agent for file level backup <a href="#filesystem-backup" id="filesystem-backup"></a>

* Windows
  * Support for VSS
* Linux
* macOS

## Advanced backup features <a href="#advanced-backup-features" id="advanced-backup-features"></a>

* Snapshot Management
* Snapshot consistent technology
* Pre/post remote command execution on VM&#x20;
* 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 <a href="#recovery-features" id="recovery-features"></a>

* 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&#x20;
  * VMware
* Individual disk recovery

## Supported backup destinations <a href="#supported-backup-destinations" id="supported-backup-destinations"></a>

* Filesystem based:
  * A synthetic backup provider for XFS or Dell Data Domain
  * Any mounted file system&#x20;
  * 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 <a href="#security-features" id="security-features"></a>

* 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&#x20;

## Other features <a href="#other-features" id="other-features"></a>

* Web-based central management portal
* Advanced reporting
* Event notifications using e-mail, Slack, or custom API call
* Command Line Interface&#x20;
* Open API for 3rd party software integration (REST API)
* LDAP authentication
* Keycloak authetication
* OpenStack Horizon plugin
* oVirt/RHV/OLVM console integration