# Main Features

Storware Backup and Recovery is a data protection solution for virtual environments, storage, and endpoints. It provides a centralized and automated solution for data protection. It can be deployed in minutes and start to protect your environment within hours.

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

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

* HC3/Scale&#x20;
* Microsoft Hyper-V&#x20;
* Nutanix
* OpenShift Virtualization&#x20;
* Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager&#x20;
* oVirt&#x20;
* Proxmox VE&#x20;
* Red Hat Virtualization
* SC//Platform&#x20;
* VergeOS
* 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>

* Azure Stack HCI&#x20;
* OpenStack (Vanilla, Red Hat, Canonical, and OpenStack-compatible)

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

* Ceph RBD
* Nutanix Files (with Changed-File Tracking)
* Nutanix Volume Groups (with Changed-Region Tracking)

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

* Generic, customizable mechanism to plug in any script-based application backup into the central console
* Allows the use of native backup mechanisms of apps such as databases, hypervisor configurations, Git, and more

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

* Windows (including 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
* Option to share RAW VM disks in backup over iSCSI
* Recovery plans for automated Disaster Recovery
* Schedulable execution for automatic recovery testing
* Customizable networking and disk layout during a restore
* Instant restore
  * Hyper-V
  * oVirt/RHV/OLVM&#x20;
  * VMware
  * OpenStack
* Disk/network/security group selection

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

* Filesystem-based:
  * A synthetic backup provider for XFS/NFS 4.2/ZFS or Dell Data Domain
  * Rubrik Managed Volumes
  * isoLayer (Air-Gapped Protection)
  * Catalogic vStor
  * Any mounted file system&#x20;
* Object Storage:
  * Amazon S3 / S3-compliant storage
  * Impossible Cloud
  * Google Cloud Storage
  * Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
* Enterprise-grade backup providers:
  * IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM)
  * Dell EMC Networker
  * Dell EMC Avamar
* 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 (with option to integrate into Skyline)
* oVirt/RHV/OLVM console integration