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HubStor Cloud Backup and Recovery to Streamline DR Strategies

Fast file server recovery from cloud without need for local cache copies or expensive downloads

HubStor Inc. announced cloud backup and recovery capabilities designed to streamline enterprise backup and DR strategies for the cloud era.

Organizations store vast amounts of unstructured data which they seldom delete. The result is a storage footprint with 80% to 90% of the data being inactive or rarely accessed. Traditional backup systems will make a copy of whatever is on the source system, and in a recovery scenario, the RTO lengthens because the backup restores the full copy containing mostly stale data onto the source system.

The problem intensifies as companies look to use the cloud for backup and as an offsite data protection strategy. Not only does the customer pay for all the data transfer and storage activity to fetch the large backups containing mostly old data, but they also incur a significant hit on their network connection to download it.

Current cloud backup best practices will mitigate having to restore from the cloud by recommending that you keep your most recent backups on-premises. As a result, backup to the cloud is primarily used for non-critical data, and traditional backup is used for critical data that requires a short RTO. However, this is expensive and time-consuming to configure and maintain.

Company’s patent-pending cloud recovery innovation sidesteps the physical limits as to how much data can be moved in a given amount of time over a network connection, thus making cloud backup a viable standard approach.

The solution is an archive system or secondary storage tier in the cloud that, like a backup, captures a point-in-time snapshot of the source system on an automated schedule. In essence, it maintains a synthetic full backup in the cloud with deduplication, compression, and encryption.

Unlike traditional backup, the solution also includes the ability to virtualize or ghost targeted subsets of the data in the data source through policies. This results in converting the stale data into small pointer files which perform a recall when a user or application opens them.

In a data loss recovery scenario, whether data has already been ghosted or not, the company’s solution offers the flexibility to leverage data ghosting to recover a portion of the dataset from the archive/secondary storage tier as full originals while everything else virtualizes in the source as seamless pointers.

HubStor provides following game-changing advantages:

  • Shortens recovery time – It delivers faster recovery than traditional methods because it enables file backups to virtualize in primary storage through seamless pointer files. This is a local operation that rapidly executes. Then, the most recent data fully restores from the backup to provide users with optimal access to current information assets. Effectively, users gain access to the entire dataset, and it was only necessary to physically restore a small percentage of the backup.

  • Minimizes cloud egress – It avoids substantial impact on the network connection by sizing down what physically recovers from the cloud backup (which also means incurring less data transfer fees).

  • Eliminates the need for local backup storage – It removes the need for local copies as a means of minimizing cloud recovery activity.

In the cloud backup, there is a minimum of three synchronous copies of the data, and clients can upgrade to have three additional copies in a secondary cloud datacenter.

For organizations concerned with malicious or accidental activity against their cloud storage account, the firm’s solution can also create a backup copy of the data in a shadow cloud storage account.

Advantages as ongoing synthetic full backup of file share data also include following:

  • Searchable backup for legal investigations – It is a searchable backup. In legal scenarios, through a Web interface, privileged users search within the backup, manage legal hold, and collect data of interest without having to restore the full backup on-premises. This offers cost saving opportunities for organizations that still rely on tape backups in their litigation readiness strategy.

  • Ransomware recovery – It provides point-in-time recovery to restore file shares to a last known healthy state.

  • Overall storage reduction – Solution’s data ghosting capabilities can also be used to provide proactive storage tiering to curtail the capacity demands in primary storage. With ability to recover data as stubs, organizations can re-purpose the primary storage capacity they reclaim or defer spending on new storage.

  • VM and application backup acceleration – By virtualizing the inactive application data and the stale data within VMs, it optimizes other backup and replication operations.

  • Offsite data protection for database and VM backups – Clients use HubStor to automatically capture backup files into Azure for their offsite data protection strategy.

  • Application retirement – Clients also use the company’s solution as a low-cost, long-term archive for legacy application data, and for decommissioning old hardware.

Our new cloud recovery features position HubStor as a leading alternative to traditional backup,” said Greg Campbell, CTO, HubStor. “When you compare the cost, value, and effort between HubStor and classic backup and recovery methods, what HubStor now offers is truly game-changing.

The company’s cloud recovery features are available.

Existing firm’s clients gain access to the functionality by downloading the latest version of the HubStor Export Utility following an update of their HubStor tenant.

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