Backup Services - Enterprise

Description

• Tivoli Storage Manager: is a centralized, policy-based enterprise solution that backups and restores the following operating systems: MAC OS X, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, AS400 and Microsoft Windows. As well as SQL databases and NAS appliances Daily backup copies are encrypted and sent offsite as part of Information Technology Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan.
• Quest vRanger: is a centralized backup solution for virtual servers in the VMware environment. Backups are run daily and retained for 30 days.
• Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM): is a centralized, policy-based enterprise solution that backups and restores the following operating systems: Gables based Microsoft Windows servers and fileservers, Virtual servers in the Hyper-V environment, SQL servers and MS Exchange. Critical servers are replicated daily to Disaster Recovery backup servers in another Datacenter. Monthly backup copies are encrypted on tape and sent offsite as part of Information Technology Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan. 
• Azure Cloud Backups: As more virtual servers become candidates for cloud hosting, it was necessary to establish a backup solution to protect against data corruption, user error, ransomware attacks, etc. Microsoft guarantees availability of the data by replicating it among sites but data recovery from client’s request is not available. Currently two forms of backup are in place for Azure hosted servers.
  1. PowerShell script scheduled to run daily which creates a snapshot of virtual servers in Azure’s blob storage.
  2. Azure Recovery services is a tool recently made available by Microsoft. Still lacks in functionality but it is designed specifically to protect servers hosted in Azure resource manager.

Restrictions

• Tivoli Storage Manager:
  • Required: Based on client's needs and requires supervisor approval.
  • Network based backup solution.
• Quest vRanger:
  • Required: Based on client's needs and requires supervisor approval.
  • Database recoveries from a virtual server backup involve two options:
    1. Restore the MDB and LDF files to the file system for the DBA to mount them using SQL Ent Mgr.
    2. Recover the entire VM from snapshot and Make it available to the DBA so the Database can be copied to original server.
• Microsoft System Center DPM:
  • Required: Based on client's needs and requires supervisor approval.
• Azure Cloud Backups:
  • Required: Based on client's needs and requires supervisor approval.
  • Limited to Azure hosted Servers.

Features/Benefits

• Tivoli Storage Manager:
  • Online data restoration.
  • Data is copied on tape and a second copy is stored in Iron Mountain tape vault for Disaster recovery purposes.
  • SQL aware backups.
• Quest vRanger:
  • Recover full servers using snapshots. 
  • Recovery of individual files from the Virtual server.
  • LAN free backup option available (SAN backup).
  • Storage replication between Medical and Terramark datacenters ensures data redundancy.
• Microsoft System Center DPM:
  • SQL Aware backups.
  • Bare metal recovery for windows 2008 and above servers.
• Azure Cloud Backups:
  • Ability to recover entire virtual server.
  • Recover individual files from Azure hosted server.

Costs

• Costs for backup services are assessed individually per-request. For projects involving UMIT managed servers and storage, backup costs are typically included in the overall price.
• There may be instances where the backup infrastructure will need to be enhanced to support a backup request. In these cases, there may be a backup cost associated with the project.

Get It Here

• Contact Taumel Vega: tvega@miami.edu or (305) 284-3922