Veeam SureBackup available through Workgroup

May 2010 Information Security

The Veeam team at Workgroup has announced the creation of a patent-pending technology that removes the last obstacle to image-level backups: reliability.

Veeam’s expanded SureBackup capabilities test and verify the recoverability of every backup of every virtual machine and set a new standard for data protection and disaster recovery, says Garron Dace, product manager: Veeam at Workgroup

The new capabilities will be available in version 5.0 of Veeam Backup & Replication, which will be available later this year.

“While virtualisation and the advent of image-level backups have brought many advantages, one issue remains,” says Dace. “Just because a backup job completes successfully does not mean the machine can be recovered and booted. Even if the integrity of the backup file is verified, there is no assurance that the operating system and applications will start without errors or that data will be intact.

“There are many possible issues, both procedural and configuration related, that can interfere and the only way to be certain is to test and verify the recoverability of every single backup. Until now, this was too expensive and time-consuming to be feasible but SureBackup eliminates these barriers and brings certainty to image-level backups.”

Recovery verification is made possible by new patent-pending technology that allows a virtual machine to run directly from a compressed backup. By publishing the content of backup files directly to ESX hosts, Veeam has eliminated the need to extract backup files, and the time and storage required to do so.

The technology also includes automatic creation of an isolated test environment using available production, disaster recovery (DR) or lab resources and supports any guest operating system and virtualised application.

In addition to testing and verification, SureBackup enables other key capabilities, such as universal application-item recovery, and provides on-demand production replicas for system testing and troubleshooting.

Please contact the Veeam team at Workgroup for further information by calling (0)11 654 6000 or via mail: garrond@workgroup.co.za

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