Vembu ImageBackup for Windows Servers & Endpoints
Ensuring Business Continuity for your physical environments
Windows Backup Features
Vembu ImageBackup backs up all Windows OS including Windows XP2, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and Windows 2003 SP2, 2008, 2008R2, 2012 and 2012 R2.
Full System or Volume Level Backup
Backs up the entire system including all volumes or you can select any individual volume for backup. Also Vembu ImageBackup supports,
- MBR and GPT disks
- Defragmented disks
- Disks greater than 2TB
- Windows Servers with pass-through disks
GFS Retention
Provides ability to specify retention policy for merging multiple recovery points via GFS (grandfather – father – son) settings. Enabling GFS Retention will reduce the time taken to restore backed up machines and most importantly reduce the size of merged image files in the storage location. Generally, daily merge is known as ‘son’, weekly merge is known as ‘father’ and monthly merge is known as ‘grandfather’
Incremental with Changed Block Tracking
Vembu Changed Block Tracking (CBT) Driver actively tracks the changes in between incremental backups and backup only the modified blocks (i.e., data) to the BDR backup server.
Forever Incremental
Vembu ImageBackup merges the incrementals based on the number of daily restore points we choose to keep. So IT admins can run forever incremental with only one full backup.
Application aware Backup
Application-aware backup process helps to create consistent database snapshots by quiescing the applications using Microsoft VSS.
Bandwidth Throttling
It enables the user to limit the bandwidth used by the backup process during data transfer. If you don’t want to spend your entire bandwidth on backups, use this feature to control or limit the bandwidth.
Near Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
Vembu ImageBackup allows IT admins to run incremental backup every 15 minutes to offer Near CDP for physical Windows IT data centers.
Backup Windows Settings
If you don’t want to run incrementals during non working hours and weekends, you can enable this feature and specify the time frame.
Quick Recovery for Business Continuity
Vembu ImageBackup ensures industry best recovery time objectives (RTO) < 15 minutes by delivering quick recovery features, which helps you to recover entire Windows physical machines including OS and applications, individual files and individual items from Microsoft Applications.
Quick VM Recovery
Instantly restore full Windows Servers and Workstations on any hypervisors such as VMware ESXi host, Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM
Instant File Recovery
Recover individual files and folders instantly from Windows backup without restoring it completely
Vembu Virtual Drive
Instantly recover all the Windows Servers and Workstations running in ESXi host or Hyper-V server by mounting Vembu Virtual Drive as datastore using NFS share or as Hyper-V VM storage using SMB share. It helps to recover the entire data center during major disaster
Vembu Explorer for Microsoft Exchange
Instantly restore Exchange user mailboxes, emails, contacts and etc. without restoring entire Exchange server machine
Vembu Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory
Instantly restore Active Directory objects and GPOs and etc. without restoring entire Active Directory server machine
Vembu Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server
Instantly restore SQL database and tables without restoring entire SQL server machine
Vembu Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint
Instantly restore SharePoint site connections and documents without restoring entire SharePoint server machine
Options for Disaster Recovery
Vembu ImageBackup also supports the legacy restore options such as Bare-metal Recovery.
Bare-metal Recovery (BMR)
Using Vembu Recovery CD, IT admins can restore backed up Windows Servers and Workstations to the same or different hardware
Volume Level Recovery
Restore any individual volume to the same machine or different Windows machine
Data Redundancy for Zero Data Loss
A dedicated filesystem for Backup data storage and Backup data replication to offsite or remote location ensures the data redundancy and industry best Recovery Point Objective (RPO) < 15 minutes.
Efficient Storage Management
BDR backup server uses its own file system VembuHIVETM to store backup data. VembuHIVETM is an efficient cloud file system designed for large-scale backup and disaster recovery (BDR) application with support for advanced use-cases
Data Replication to Offsite Data Center
Additional backup data can be transferred to offsite location for data redundancy
Scale-out Storage
Storage targets can be incrementally added anytime without affecting existing backup jobs
Data Replication to Vembu Cloud
Additional backup data can be replicated to Vembu Cloud to get hybrid cloud backup infrastructure
Backup Verification for Data Integrity
The recoverability of the backed up Windows Servers and Workstations are confirmed by running integrity tests. Vembu ImageBackup offers three-tier backup verification check and it avoids data loss after recovery.
Boot Check
Backed up Windows Servers and Workstations will be instantly booted as a VM by reading the backup storage targets on Hyper-V or KVM.
Mount Check
This process ensures that the backed up disks in each Windows Servers and Workstations are mountable.
Integrity check
Vembu uses Windows check disk utility to check the integrity of each files which are backed up along with Windows Servers and Workstations machines.
VM Converter for Easy Migration across Environments
Vembu ImageBackup offers FREE migration tools as part of backup and disaster recovery solution.
VMware Converter (P2V)
Helps to migrate Windows Servers and Workstations deployed in physical environments and other hypervisors to VMware vSphere environment.
Hyper-V Converter (P2V)
Helps to migrate Windows Servers and Workstations deployed in physical environments and other hypervisors to Microsoft Hyper-V environment.
Virtual to Physical Converter (V2P)
Helps to migrate VMs running in VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Windows VMs running in other hypervisors such as KVM, Xen to physical environment.
KVM Converter (P2V)
Helps to migrate Windows servers and Workstations deployed in physical machines and other hypervisors to KVM environment.
Centralized Data Monitoring available 24/7/365
Extensive reports and centralized management console offered by Vembu.
Vembu BDR360
Centralized monitoring and management portal delivers extensive reports on backup activities and resource utilization across all BDR backup servers