Overview

A solid data backup and recovery plan is crucial for any organization, regardless of the industry or business size. As part of that plan, organizations need to have a solution in place to ensure that data is protected and easily accessible when it is needed.

Barracuda Backup Service is a complete and affordable data backup solution. The Barracuda Backup Server provides a full local data backup and is combined with a storage subscription to replicate data to two offsite locations. This approach provides the best of both worlds - onsite backups for fast restore times and secure, offsite storage for disaster recovery. Block level deduplication is applied inline to reduce traditional backup storage requirements by 20 to 50 times while also reducing backup windows and bandwidth requirements.

Cloud Storage with Deduplication

Barracuda Backup Subscription plans provide diverse offsite storage at affordable monthly fees that scale to meet increasing data requirements. Offsite storage is allocated in 100 Gigabyte increments for $50/month each.

• Secure backup to two geo-separate data centers
• Deduplicated efficient backup storage
• Redundant disk-based storage
• Best-of-breed data retention policies
• Web interface multi-location management
• Restore by Web, FTP and Windows software

Secure Offsite Backup

Unlike other vendors, the Barracuda Backup Service makes three backup copies of an organization’s primary data: one local backup and two offsite data backups to geographically-separate data centers. To ensure the security and integrity of an organization’s offsite data, Barracuda Networks has equipped both data centers with on-premises security teams, restricted visitor access, alarm systems, advanced fire suppression systems, distributed redundant power and carrier-class diverse routed Internet connections. In the event of a disaster recovery situation, the offsite backup storage provides an easy way to restore critical information. The monthly Barracuda Backup Subscription provides full 24x7 service and technical support for the offsite data copies.

Advanced and Efficient Technology

The Barracuda Backup Service maximizes storage capacity, controls data requiring backup, and ensures fast and easy data restoration.

• Data Deduplication
  Using advanced technology, the Barracuda Backup Service reduces the storage and transfer requirements for backups by analyzing each file and only transferring and archiving new bit sequences. This advanced deduplication technology is applied within a single file's revision history as well as across the entire backup volume. Deduplication is also applied between data sets from multiple locations.
• Backup Selection and Connections
  The Barracuda Backup Service offers granular control to identify network volumes or limited areas within a network volume for backup. The Barracuda Backup Service uses standard network protocol connections, such as CIFs and NFS to access data.
• Scalable
  The Barracuda Backup Service can be configured to backup as much or as little data as needed. A single Barracuda Backup Server is capable of managing regular backups for several terabytes of changing information. To store an even greater amount of data, administrators can deploy multiple Barracuda Backup Servers. The amount of data that the Barracuda Backup Service can store, both locally and offsite, is limitless.
• Diverse Restore Methods
  Data is easy to restore using any of the following methods, including: 1.Barracuda Restore Client for Windows 2.FTP from Barracuda Backup Server 3.FTPS from Barracuda Central 4.Barracuda Backup Web interface 5.Shipment of restored data from Barracuda Networks (for an additional fee)
• Change Detection Backup and Rate Control
  Utilizing efficient technology to detect file changes, the Barracuda Backup Service supports scheduled backups as often as every few minutes for constant data protection. Separately, the Barracuda Backup Service enables control over the rate at which data is replicated to the offsite locations throughout the day. The rate control feature provides for the preservation of Internet bandwidth during peak usage and optimizes offsite backup transfers during daily non-peak hours.