CloudBerry Provides DR Solution for Customers to Amazon EC2

CloudBerry Lab, Inc. announced the availability of Backup 4.5 with cloud-based DR.

In this version, customers can restore an image of a Windows server as an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance, to support customers as they run the server from the cloud until a full restore can be performed on-site.

The company provides cloud-based backup and file management services to SMBs.

Backup 4.5 handles all recovery process and allows customers to:

• Launch Amazon EC2 instance directly from the program user interface (UI);

• Restore backups directly from Amazon S3 to Amazon EC2;

• Create Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for future restore to EC2;

• Restore as an EBS volume and connect to a running EC2 instance;

• Automatically change original server settings required to run as an EC2 instance: IP configuration, remote desktop protocol and firewall.

Version 4.5 includes additional functionality: Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (IA) support and support to backup and restore NTFS permissions for files and folders, which gives IT more control over access to backup files.

Company’s support for the S3 storage class, S3 Standard-IA, gives SMBs another option for cold storage. Like Amazon Glacier, it’s very inexpensive; but with S3 Standard-IA, there’s a quicker time frame to retrieve data.

CloudBerry Backup is a simple, powerful cloud backup solution that’s for SMBs. With it, the customer can choose to store backups in almost any storage cloud, including S3, Standard-IA and Glacier. Backup doesn’t process customer data on 3rd-party servers; instead, all data transfers occur between the source instance and a storage account the customer controls. And finally, restores are always free with the company. Customers don’t need a Backup commercial license to restore data, but can configure data retrieval right from the product activation screen.

The solution includes features, such as image-based backup, compression, scheduling, cloud and local backup, 256-bit AES encryption and block-level backup.

“With the latest version of CloudBerry Backup, customers can rest assured that they can easily restore to Amazon EC2 should they experience an event with their physical server and that their business can continue operations,” said Alexey Serkov, CTO, CloudBerry Lab.

Backup costs $29.99 per license for desktops and $119.99 per license for servers. Company’s EC2 restore is available in the following versions of Backup: Server, SQL, Exchange and Enterprise.