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Continuous Data Protection (CDP) solutions enable you to backup your data in real time at a pace that may bring increased protection and convenience to you. It automatically detects and saves each and every change made to your data, so that nothing is left overlooked. These changes can be stored locally or remotely and are readily available for recovery just when you need them.
Conventional Backup Solutions
Conventional backup solutions create snapshots or images of your client computers and virtual machines at set time intervals. Although this approach has been used successfully in on-premise physical environments, it can present certain additional challenges for cloud and virtual environments:
Why is Continuous Data Protection Backup So Much Better?
CDP users use the journal only when they commit to the point in time selected, avoiding the performance impact of a typical snapshot. This can make an even more significant difference when attempting to power on multiple snapshots on replica VMs.
Journal-based restore maintains a constant log of all changes made by users of applications and data.
With the changes being continuously written to the datastore, Continuous Data Protection delivers point-in-time restore to within a specific time window
The journal can live on any datastore, where maximum size limits and warnings can be specified. This prevents the datastore from becoming full which would jeopardize replication. Using snapshots on replicated VMs offers no way of controlling the snapshot’s data volume, with the result that SLAs and efficiency become non-scalable.
Continuous Data Protection software gives an ongoing flow of recovery checkpoints to use for restore. In the event of malicious attacks such as ransomware, data can be recovered to literally seconds before the event took place, minimizing impact to the organization and its stakeholders.
CDP makes use of change-block tracking to constantly replicate and write data to storage. Because CDP is always on, it provides significantly better RPOs than solutions that are based around snapshots.
As no snapshots are created using Continuous Data Protection backup solutions, the source storage requires no extra space. Only about 7-10% of the target storage is utilized which saves significant amounts of space. This can lead to dramatic savings. Alternatively, Snapshot technology typically requires a good deal of overhead in the storage arrays, often as much as 20-30% at both the target and source
Advanced CDP Solutions with Bacula Enterprise
As opposed to conventional backup solutions, Bacula Enterprise CDP does not require regular snapshots of your entire system. It saves only the bits of data that have changed, which results in seamless backups that are not taxing on your resources and have no significant impact on your system’s operational workload. This approach enables you to perform granular recovery of only those bits of data that you actually need to restore. Granular restore can be crucial for predominantly virtual environments, where recovery point objectives (RPOs) are tight and recovery time objectives (RTOs) are very short.
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