Linux backup and recovery

Here's how Dell AppAssure technology delivers better Linux backup protection:

Highly scaleable, highly efficient backup

• AppAssure scales for speed by automatically ‘turning on’ as many AppAssure core CPUs as are needed to handle workload peaks. It also scales for data capacity with ultra-efficient block-level incremental-forever backups that are data-deduplicated across all the servers on your network.

This results in:

• Line-speed user access to applications. Feel free to schedule as many simultaneous backups as you like even during peak work hours because backup jobs never get in the way of full-speed production environments, even if your network runs at 10 gbit/sec.
• More efficient disk storage. Dell AppAssure keeps your storage footprint small whether your storage environment is small or large. And, Exabyte-level scalability easily meets the needs of Big Data environments.

Rapid recovery from nearly any point in time

• Achieve near-zero application recovery time objectives (RTO). Choose to recover from any one of up to 288 recovery points a day for Windows to practically eliminate the potential for data loss.

Comprehensive data off-siting, fail-over, fail-back

• Dell AppAssure builds in WAN-optimized, deduplication-aware replication for off-siting backup data to public or private clouds. Data seeding is available for sites with slow or highly latent links. Fail-Over and Fail-Back allows your secondary site or a managed service provider site to recover instances from replicated machines and immediately commence protection on the failed-over machines, and then fail back when the problem is solved.

Unified user interface

• Protect a few or a few thousand machines from any Web browser. AppAssure 5 features a new web-based management console that is compatible with industry-standard browsers on laptops, tablets and notebooks. You can manage your data protection responsibilities and solve problems from any location with an Internet connection.

Key functions found in AppAssure agent for Linux:

Continual snapshots for outstanding recovery point objective (RPO) granularity

• AppAssure Agent for Linux snapshot technology essentially eliminates backup windows with disk-to-disk backups comprised of an initial full backup, followed by incremental forever backups. This allows administrators to back up a server as frequently as every 15 minutes. This creates many more Linux backup RPOs than traditional backup technologies are capable of and reduces potential data loss from as much as a day to just minutes.

Centralized backup

• AppAssure manages your Linux servers from a Web-based central management console that runs on a Web browser-enabled device

Fast recoveries

• AppAssure is the fast path to recoveries with bare metal restores that take minutes, rather than hours. It eliminates the need for time-consuming manual system rebuilds followed by file restores. A recovery that once took hours can now be accomplished in just minutes.

Archiving

• AppAssure’s archiving feature enables long-term data retention for SLA and regulatory compliance. The backup archives can be stored on low-cost storage. Archive data is deduplicated, compressed and encrypted, and spans across multiple devices.

Linux supported distributions:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.3 (32 and 64 bit)
• CentOS 6.3 (32 and 64 bit)
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (32 and 64 bit)
• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (32 and 64 bit)

Dell AppAssure Agent for Linux benefits:

TrueScale™ architecture – scales linearly

• This leverages a dynamic, multi-core pipeline storage system that scales linearly to store and manage data efficiently and deliver RTOs and RPOs of minutes. It’s so fast that it actually matches your line speeds, whether you’re networked at 1 gbit/sec or 10 gbit/sec. As a result you can schedule multiple simultaneous backups without slowing user access to applications and data.

True Global Deduplication™ – reduces your storage footprint

• The inline deduplication (at no extra cost) and compression optimizes backups for WAN replication and eliminates redundant data across the servers on your network. Overall data storage savings range up to 80% over legacy Linux backup approaches.

Powerful snapshot technology

• AppAssure Agent for Linux is an innovative Linux backup and recovery product that can be managed centrally from a single user interface. After completing an initial full backup, take advantage of incremental forever block-level snapshot backups with change block tracking. This feature allows each Linux machine to be ‘snapped’ and backed up much more frequently than traditional backup architectures allow and it yields outstanding disk storage efficiency.

Cuts backup windows time to speed restores

• AppAssure cuts Linux backups from hours to just minutes to create more recovery point objectives (RPOs) and it restores in minutes to deliver superior recovery time objectives (RTOs).