Server Easily Restored from ExaGrid’s Landing Zone
While resizing a Veeam Backup server, Kurz realized that the wrong partition for the server had been deleted, which rendered it inoperative.
“I contacted our ExaGrid Support Engineer and he quickly responded with the path for the files and documentation on how to restore the server. Then, I was able to create a new backup server on our ExaGrid system, and then restore the original server. I was so grateful for his help, which saved our backup system from going down,” said Kurz.
ExaGrid writes backups directly to a disk-cache Landing Zone, avoiding inline processing and ensuring the highest possible backup performance, which results in the shortest backup window. Adaptive Deduplication performs deduplication and replication in parallel with backups for a strong recovery point (RPO). As data is being deduplicated to the repository, it can also be replicated to a second ExaGrid site or the public cloud for disaster recovery (DR).
ExaGrid and Veeam can instantly recover a file or VMware virtual machine by running it directly from the ExaGrid appliance in the event that the file is lost, corrupted or encrypted or the primary storage VM becomes unavailable. This instant recovery is possible because of ExaGrid’s Landing Zone – a high-speed disk cache on the ExaGrid appliance that retains the most recent backups in their complete form. Once the primary storage environment has been brought back to a working state, the VM backed up on the ExaGrid appliance can then be migrated to primary storage for continued operation.