Cloud Backup:Scenarios

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Pain points

• Files are scattered, which makes backup configuration difficult.

• Many files leads to slow backups, making it hard to guarantee the backup SLA.

• Large data volumes require expensive local backup hardware.

Solution

• Back up local files and manage them centrally in the cloud for simplified administration.

• Use NAS backup with multi-node concurrent processing to increase backup speed by more than three times.

• Back up to the cloud to eliminate the need for local hardware. Deduplication and compression save storage space and bandwidth.

Value

• Centralized management greatly simplifies backup configuration.

• Concurrent backups ensure one backup per day, exceeding the expected backup SLA.

• Reduces the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by 80%.

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Description

Pain points

• Relying on simple scripts to back up core database systems is risky.

• Traditional all-in-one appliances are complex to install and require a large initial investment.

• Setting up geo-redundancy is difficult.

Solution

• Use a backup client to back up data directly to the cloud.

• Connect to Alibaba Cloud through a VPN or a leased line to further enhance data security.

Value

• Provides full support for MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle.

• Eliminates the need to purchase all-in-one appliances. Installation and configuration are simple.

• Back up directly to the cloud for low-cost geo-redundancy.

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Description

Pain points

• Setting up archiving devices is time-consuming and expensive.

• Lack of data insights makes it impossible to plan archive policies or predict their effectiveness.

• Retrieving archived data is difficult and highly inefficient.

Solution

• Use intelligent analysis to understand data characteristics from multiple dimensions. Create targeted archive plans and predict archiving results.

• Store data in Alibaba Cloud archive vaults at a very low cost.

• Supports global search to quickly find and retrieve archived files.

Value

• Achieve precise archive planning. Configure a policy once for fully automatic execution.

• Search for archived files in seconds and retrieve them quickly.

• Reduces TCO by more than 50%.

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Description

Pain points

• Traditional migration solutions are intrusive to VMware, pose security risks, and are complex to operate.

• Database VMs require long downtimes for consistent migration, resulting in lengthy switchover times.

• Incremental migration is very inefficient when there are many files.

Solution

• Use non-intrusive, agentless migration for VMware to the cloud.

• Supports agentless incremental migration while ensuring data consistency.

• Supports concurrent migration of multiple VMs.

Value

• Non-intrusive, agentless migration is convenient.

• Efficient incremental migration shortens the switchover period for database VMs to 15 minutes.

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Description

Pain points

• Traditional VM backup requires all-in-one backup appliances, which are complex to install and configure.

• Backup and disaster recovery both require separate hardware, which is expensive.

Solution

• Use agentless VMware backup to the cloud, which eliminates the need for local hardware.

• Restore VMware backups directly to your on-premises environment. You can also restore them as ECS instances in the cloud for disaster recovery. When the on-premises VMware environment is back online, migrate the services from ECS back to the on-premises environment to recover your production environment.

Value

• Reduces TCO by 80%.

• An integrated backup and disaster recovery solution that achieves two goals with one plan.

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Description

Pain points

• Many ECS instances makes backup configuration and management difficult.

• Snapshots cannot provide file-level or database-level protection.

• Database backup has high requirements that are difficult to meet with standard backup software.

• Different data sources have vastly different requirements, making configuration difficult and error-prone.

Solution

• Use ECS backup, a single service that supports all data types on ECS instances.

• Provides full support for old and new database versions. Offers multiple backup methods, such as full, incremental, and log backups.

• Achieve a near-zero Recovery Point Objective (RPO) with continuous log backup for Oracle and MySQL databases.

Value

• Provides a unified solution for backing up all data types on ECS instances.

• Achieve a deduplication and compression ratio of up to 5:1 for database backups and up to 30:1 for file backups. This saves 60% on storage costs for data retained for one month.

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Description

Pain points

• Business disaster recovery has high RPO and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) requirements. Traditional solutions are difficult to implement, expensive, and not integrated with the cloud platform.

• Disaster recovery operations are complex. Drills are difficult to perform, and their correctness cannot be guaranteed.

Solution

• A high-performance disaster recovery solution based on disk-level Continuous Data Replication (CDR) that can achieve an RPO in seconds and an RTO in minutes.

• Provides cross-region disaster recovery for entire ECS instances. No application-level replication is needed. Configuration is simple, and applications can be started with one click.

Value

• RPO < 1 minute, RTO < 15 minutes.

• Disaster recovery for entire instances is easy to operate. You can run drills at any time to verify correctness without affecting the production environment.

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Description

Pain points

• NAS, OSS, and Tablestore handle large data volumes but lack a built-in scheduled backup mechanism.

• Traditional solutions require creating custom scripts or installing disaster recovery software on ECS instances, which is complex to configure and expensive.

Solution

• Use agentless backup for Alibaba Cloud NAS, OSS, and Tablestore. This does not consume your ECS resources.

• Use scheduled, forever-incremental backups to ensure backup efficiency.

Value

• Zero compute resource consumption. Back up NAS, OSS, and Tablestore directly.

• Forever-incremental backups with deduplication and compression can save up to 80% on storage costs.

• Centrally configure backup policies in the Cloud Backup console. The service is simple to operate and fully managed.