Protect all of your organization’s data now – so you can recover it later

Data backup and recovery is the process of creating copies of organizational data and storing them securely so they can be restored in the event of data loss, corruption, cyberattacks, or accidental deletion. An effective backup strategy follows the 3-2-1 rule: three copies of data, stored on two different media types, with one copy kept offsite. Modern enterprise backup solutions protect data across datacenters, cloud platforms, virtual environments, and user endpoints while ensuring regulatory compliance and business continuity.

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The three main backup types serve different recovery needs:

1. Full backups create complete copies of all data, providing comprehensive protection but requiring the most storage space and time;
2. Incremental backups capture only changes since the last backup of any type, offering faster backups and efficient storage use; and
3. Differential backups save all changes since the last full backup, balancing recovery speed with storage efficiency. 

Organizations typically combine these methods—performing regular full backups with incremental or differential backups in between—to optimize both protection and resource usage while meeting their specific recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO).

OpenText Data Protector for Cloud Workloads provides agentless backup and snapshot management for virtual machines, containers, and cloud applications through a single console. The platform protects Microsoft 365 (including Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams), supports multiple hypervisors (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Nutanix, AWS EC2, Proxmox), and includes Kubernetes and OpenShift container protection. Security features include strong encryption, immutable backups that protect against ransomware, and role-based access control, with flexible backup destinations including local storage, NFS/CIFS shares, and multi-cloud object storage.

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AI-based anomaly detection and Webroot ransomware scanning provide the first layer of ransomware protection for backups. OpenText Data Protector also enables application-aware automated snapshot management with hourly snapshots, minimizing data loss when ransomware strikes. The solution provides multiple defense layers including immutable backups that attackers cannot alter, AES-256 bit encryption, and role-based access control. The SafeZone Recovery feature creates immutable backups and isolated restore environments with no network connection to production systems, allowing you to examine backups without risk of reinfection. This approach enables quick recovery from granular file restores to full bare metal recoveries.

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