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Barracuda Backup: Cloud-integrated Backup and Fast Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is a low-cost, subscription-based backup and fast disaster recovery service for small and medium-size businesses. The Barracuda Backup solution can include a physical, purpose-built Barracuda appliance or a virtual, software-based appliance with similar functionality but which uses your own storage hardware. Barracuda Backup protects critical business data generated on-premises, at one or more remote sites, or in the cloud. For disaster preparedness, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon Web Services (AWS), or to any private location you designate. A simple-to-operate and web-accessible management and reporting console makes it easy to administer and monitor all backup, replication, retention and recovery processes in real time.

Key features of Barracuda Backup include:

• LiveBoot and Cloud LiveBoot enable recovery Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware VMs in minutes, minimizing business disruption
• Cloud-to-Cloud Backup protects against data loss in Microsoft 365 and Exchange Online environments
• Offsite vaulting of historical revisions conserves local storage resources so they can be used for production applications
• In-line deduplication and data compression can cut storage requirements and network bandwidth usage in half

Barracuda Backup offers a variety of capabilities critical in the process of recovering data after a ransomware incursion. Immutable backup and air-gapped cloud storage create and protect a read-only backup of your data in Barracuda's cloud, which is accessible exclusively via Barracuda Backup's secure interface. In addition, files in the cloud are subject to a delayed purge. This provides enough time to retain your protected data in the event of its inadvertent or hostile erasure from your on-premises backup appliance.

Capabilities of Barracuda Backup
Barracuda Backup offers small and mid-size organizations a full-featured data protection solution by providing advanced capabilities in the areas of backup, recovery and management. Barracuda Backup protects the most popular operating systems, the most widely used versions of Hyper-V and VMware, and cloud-hosted Microsoft applications. Mission-critical servers can be backed up as often as every 15 minutes to support a low Recovery Point Objective (RPO). Replication to offsite datacenters and to the cloud facilitate disaster recovery and offer deployment options to suit any SMB.

Secure Backup and Replication
Barracuda Backup utilizes a physical or virtual (software-based) onsite appliance that securely and automatically replicates data offsite. Local backup allows fast restores, and offsite replication supports disaster recovery.

• Hardware-Encrypted Appliance: Barracuda Encrypted Backup is a service option that uses disk drives which can be read only when the drives are installed in the physical Barracuda appliance. In case the entire encrypted appliance is taken from a site, disk data can only be read after a power-on password is correctly entered. Native encryption technology is incorporated in the drives used in this option, which eliminates the dramatic performance loss associated with software-based encryption.
• Inline Deduplication and Compression: Barracuda Backup services using either physical or virtual appliances include Inline, block-level, source-based and target-based deduplication and compression. This results in a significant reduction in storage and bandwidth use and cuts the time it takes to complete backup and replication operations. Barracuda's variable block deduplication algorithms evaluate data type and chunk size in order to determine a block size that delivers the highest degree of deduplication. For businesses with multiple locations, Barracuda's advanced global deduplication and cloud storage technology offer significant savings in storage infrastructure without compromising data protection.
• Secure and Efficient Replication: Barracuda Backup offers a variety of low-cost options for copying business-critical data offsite to protect against local events that may disable your datacenter. You can use built-in WAN acceleration to replicate protected data to the Barracuda Cloud, to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, or to a Barracuda physical or virtual backup appliance located at any remote location. You can also export replicated data to external disk, tape, autoloaders, or robotic libraries. Wherever you choose to replicate your data, it will be transferred and stored using military-grade 256-bit AES encryption. Barracuda replication can use VMware Changed Block Tracking (CBT) and requires only a single agent for Windows systems and apps.
• Offsite Vaulting: To help businesses comply with internal or regulatory retention policies and to reduce the cost of storing archival backups, Barracuda Backup supports offsite vaulting. You can transfer on-premises copies of monthly and yearly backups from a local Barracuda appliance to the Barracuda Cloud or to a different Barracuda appliance.
• Cloud-to-Cloud Backup: To recover from data loss due to human error such as accidental deletions, Barracuda offers Cloud-to-Cloud Backup for Microsoft Office 365. This can protect Exchange Online mailboxes and OneDrive for Business files and folders.

• P2V Restores: You can restore physical server backups into a virtual environment (P2V restores) hosted by VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V.
• Bare Metal Recovery (BMR): Bare metal recovery lets you restore a complete Windows computer system, including data, settings, applications, and operating system, onto a new computer on which no software has been installed. BMR is useful for a variety of common restoration scenarios including replacing a lost notebook or provisioning a new one, refreshing a server's hardware, moving from a physical to a virtual server, migrating from a rotating disk to a solid-state drive, or recovering from a cyber attack that corrupted your operating system.
• LiveBoot: The LiveBoot feature allows instant recovery of VMware virtual guest machines. If your primary storage system fails, Barracuda Backup can operate as data storage for your VMware ESXi server. You can recover any revision of a guest VM based on your retention policy and immediately use files and applications in their deduplicated state stored within Barracuda Backup. You can also use LiveBoot for granular file-level recovery as well as for item-level recovery for supported applications including Exchange, Microsoft SQL, and SharePoint.
• Cloud LiveBoot: When you back up a Hyper-V or VMware virtual guest server and replicate to Barracuda Cloud Storage, you can boot the server in Barracuda's Cloud directly from the Barracuda Backup web interface with no additional configuration. You can recover any revision of a virtual guest server within your retention policy, boot virtual servers in the cloud to recover and traverse the file structure of virtual guest system data, and retrieve individual Entra ID (formerly Active Directory) objects. For testing purposes, you can boot the virtual guest system to confirm data integrity or to set up a sandbox for trying out new or updated applications without risk to your production environment.
• Granular Recovery: From the Barracuda Backup web interface you can recover an entire share, a file, a file system directory, a mailbox, mailbox folders, or individual messages. You can restore data to its original location or to any other networked computer where the Barracuda Backup Agent is installed.
• Retention Policies: Barracuda Backup retention policies allow you to keep historic data based on daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly time intervals. You can create Barracuda Backup retention policies for different sets of data including VMs, email messages, and data backed up by the Barracuda Backup Agent including Exchange, SQL, Hyper-V, and System State. This flexibility allows you to comply with regulatory or litigation requirements and fine tune data protection and disaster recovery plans.
• Microsoft Exchange Support: Barracuda Backup automatically creates a recovery mailbox database for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 and higher. You can restore individual Exchange Mailbox folders, such as the Inbox, as well as Contacts, Calendars, and Notes. You can also use Barracuda Backup's web interface to view, search, and restore individual Microsoft Exchange messages. You can view all of the messages within an individual mailbox and you can perform a string search across multiple mailboxes.
• VMware CBT Restores: VMware Changed Block Tracking (CBT) is used to perform incremental backups on VMware ESX/ESXi VMs. CBT identifies and tracks block changes that occurred after the most recent backup and logs these changes. This significantly lowers the number and duration of backup windows and improves the speed and efficiency of subsequent replication.

• Dashboard: Provides a panoramic view of all devices on the subscriber's Barracuda Backup account. This section uses interactive graphs and tables to describe a wealth of information including the performance and health of local and offsite backups, agents, and data sources. Other information includes offsite transfer remaining, offsite transfer efficiency, storage efficiency, backup reports, storage allocation, current tasks, storage and transfer history, and Barracuda subscription information.
• Backup: Controls data sources and manages how data is backed up locally and replicated offsite. This section allows you to control replication from Barracuda appliances for disaster recovery, granular backup scheduling, directory and file exclusions, rate limits, and retention policies.
• Restore: Allows you to restore data from a local Barracuda physical or virtual appliance, replicated data from a remote appliance, or data from Barracuda Cloud Storage. The Restore Browser page lets you recover a range items that include Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware servers, Exchange Server, SQL Server databases, Active Directory and Entra ID objects, SharePoint objects, and Windows System State. The Restore Browser page also gives you access to LiveBoot, Cloud LiveBoot, and P2V restores. You can use the LiveBrowse feature to view and traverse file structures inside backed up Hyper-V and VMware VMDK, VHD, and VHDX files and you can download files and directories from Hyper-V and VMware snapshots.
• Reports: Allows you to view detailed reports on backups, restores, and large items, plus an audit log of all activities. The Backup Report includes a report detailing every backup that has been performed or is currently running. The tabular and sortable Restore Report provides details for a specified range of restore operations and includes any errors encountered and a list of restored content. The Large Items Report lists large files and includes the source and path of the data plus the size of the file before and after deduplication. The Audit Log Report shows all logged activities in the Barracuda Backup web interface for specified users and time periods.
• System: Allows you to manage firmware version and settings for Barracuda Backup and to download software tools to use with Barracuda Backup.
• Admin: Allows you to configure email notifications, authentication, and permissions for users, add and delete display groups to manage multiple Barracuda Backup appliances, activate an appliance, and add and configure your Amazon Web Services (AWS) Account to Barracuda Backup (this requires an AWS Replication subscription).

Barracuda Backup Deduplication
Deduplication is a data compression technique that plays a critical role in any modern backup and recovery solution. Deduplication works by comparing incoming data blocks with backup data that has already been stored. Deduplication algorithms remove redundant incoming data blocks and substitute a concise reference to the data already stored. Barracuda Backup Agents (BBAs) deduplicate and compress local data, including Hyper-V VHD files, on the client-side host server before transmitting the deduplicated data to the physical or virtual Barracuda Backup appliance. By preventing redundant data from being sent to the Barracuda Backup appliance for processing, so-called source-based dedpulication reduces LAN network traffic and significantly shortens the backup window.

To backup VMware virtual disks, Barracuda Backup takes advantage of VMware's VADP technology, using Changed Block Tracking to avoid sending redundant data chunks to Barracuda Backup appliances.

How Progent Can Help You with Barracuda Backup
Progent's Microsoft-certified Hyper-V consultants and VMware-certified vSphere and vCenter experts can assist your business to design, install and manage a data backup and disaster recovery solution powered by Barracuda Backup. Progent's Exchange consultants can help you use Barracuda Backup to protect your Exchange Server deployment, and Progent's Amazon AWS hybrid cloud consulting experts can help you set up your AWS account to replicate and restore critical data. Progent's Disaster Recovery consultants can show you how Barracuda Backup's offsite and cloud replication capability can protect your vital business data and get you up and running fast in the event of a natural or human-made disaster, a ransomware attack, or any other catastrophic event. Progent's GIAC-certified information assurance consultants can evaluate the security and compliance of your backup ecosystem and can help you leverage affordable tools and smart processes and policies to survive in today's increasingly dangerous IT environment.

Zero-Downtime Technologies Supported by Progent's Consultants
Progent's certified consulting experts can assist you to design an efficient, zero-downtime network that addresses critical problems encompassing a broad array of infrastructure technologies and processes including:

Disaster Recovery Planning
Progent's business continuity planning professionals can help you create a workplace recovery strategy that will allow you to restore IT operations in case of an information network disaster. Progent can assist you to create a complete disaster recovery plan that incorporates scheduled disaster recovery evaluations and drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized consultants can also help you build an affordable, fault-tolerant network architecture that addresses availability issues covering a broad array of infrastructure technologies and processes. To learn more, see Business Continuity Consulting Services.

CRISC-Premier Network Risk Control
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and maintain IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. To learn more, go to CRISC-Certified network risk mitigation specialists.

Microsoft Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 incorporated important improvements in scale, throughput, management, cybersecurity, app compatibility, Linux support, Kubernetes networking, and hybrid combinations of on-premises and cloud assets. Top enhancements of Windows Server 2019 include Windows Admin Center for unifying the management of hybrid local/cloud-hosted deployments, System Insights for taking advantage of advance predictive intelligence to manage on-premises networks, Windows Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container networking with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets for creating and administering large non-stop scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for simplifying the upgrade process from outdated versions of Windows Server. For more information, visit Microsoft Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering Consulting.

Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery experts can assist your organization to design a DR system based on Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering technologies including Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade for non-disruptive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for zero-data-loss Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Storage Spaces Direct for high-performance network-attached storage using commodity equipment, VM Load Balancing for enhancing the speed and fault-tolerance of Failover Clusters while reducing capital investment and operational expenses, and Cloud Witness for fast, economical deployment of a stretch cluster quorum arbitration point. For more information, visit Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery Expertise.

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is a component of VMware vCenter that allows you to define, automate and test a repeatable runbook for recovering applications and services rapidly after an outage. SRM provides centrally controlled and automated recovery, application mobility, plus non-intrusive site migration, failback and site re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also allows transparent testing for disaster recovery, upgrades and patches and can produce audit reports to verify full service recovery, validate SLAs and prove compliance. Progent can provide the skills of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consultant to assist your organization to design, configure, test and maintain a DR system based on VMware SRM.

NetApp MetroCluster Disaster Recovery Technology
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery platform that uses failover storage clustering with continual replication to provide fast, zero data loss disaster recovery between datacenters located as far as 185 miles apart from each other. Progent can provide access to a certified NetApp MetroCluster expert who can assist you to design, configure, administer, update, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery solution based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to choose a topology for your MetroCluster environment that aligns with your functional requirements and IT budget. Progent can make sure you adhere to leading practices for installing your MetroCluster solution by providing guidance with tasks such as assigning disk pools and shelf IDs, arranging aggregate layout, setting up NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, provisioning Cisco and Brocade switches, designing a tiebreaker mechanism, designing a TCP/IP configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and verifying your MetroCluster disaster recovery system to verify compliance with information assurance standards and government mandates.

Network Load Balancing
Progent provides fault tolerant load balancing support that addresses network load balancing, load balanced applications, network backbone routing, and content delivery technology such as Cisco Content Engine. Non-stop load balancing products for which Progent can provide consulting services include Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Access Suite and Access Gateway, Cisco CSS, Cisco Content Engine and LocalDirector 400 series, and F5 Networks 3-DNS. To read more, visit High Availability Load Balancing.

Non-stop Data Centers
Progent's Data Center engineers can help you find high availability data centers that match the specific needs of your business. Fault tolerant co-location sites are especially attractive to small and mid-size companies due to of their affordability and convenience in comparison to pursuing a do-it-yourself approach. Trying to create an on-site data center that offers even a basic degree of fault tolerance is too costly for the majority of small businesses. Progent is ready to help you get all the advantages of 24x7 colo centers by offering a full range of consulting and support services. To read more, see Fault Tolerant Data Centers Consulting.

Non-stop Branch Office Connectivity
Progent's interoffice network infrastructure engineers can help organizations achieve non-stop multi-site connectivity solutions via redundant networks featuring transparent failover. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE engineers can design and deploy high-availability Inter-office connections supported by fault tolerant EIGRP network routers or fault tolerant OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how multi-path connections and transparent fail-over offers economical 24x7 interoffice networking. For details, visit Fault Tolerant Inter-office Networking.

24x7 Internet Access
Progent's Cisco-certified IT professionals can show you how to create an affordable, fault tolerant Internet connection solution that can achieve 24x7 Internet access through a wide array of fault tolerant Internet network solutions including non-stop BGP, transparent fail-over, and redundant Internet Service Providers. Progent can provide Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert consultants to show you how to utilize the latest technology for high availability Internet connections to implement a cost-effective, fully redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other capabilities to deliver zero-downtime Internet access. To find out more, go to High Availability Internet Access Solutions.

Backup and Restore Solutions Consulting and Support Services
Progent can provide affordable remote access to engineers with expertise in a wide array of products and technologies that deliver solutions for backing up Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux servers and workstations as well as notebooks and handhelds. Progent offers consulting support for leading backup platforms including Acronis, Symantec Backup Exec, BackupAssist, CrashPlan, Double-Take, MozyPro, Retrospect, Apple Time Machine, VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP), and FLARs. Progent can help your company to implement, upgrade, or troubleshoot backup/restore systems for a variety of environments such as local, edge to datacenter, cloud, or hybrid. For more information, visit Backup and Restore Solutions Expertise.

System Center Data Protection Manager Backup and Restore Consulting Services
Progent's certified System Center Data Protection Manager engineers can assist your company to develop an effective workplace recovery strategy, implement an affordable fault-tolerante IT infrastructure, deploy a System Center Data Protection Manager-based backup and restore system, thoroughly validate your DPM system, educate your administrative personnel or local service providers how to manage Microsoft SCDPM, or provide complete information technology support outsourcing such as off-site hosting of virtual or physical SCDPM servers in Progent's world-class data center facility. For details, go to Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Consulting Services.

ProSight Altaro VM Backup Solutions for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Altaro VM Backup offers small and mid-size organizations a dependable and affordable platform for backing up and restoring Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines. Altaro VM Backup can be used for on-premises, offsite, distributed, and cloud-hosted architectures and also enables low-cost backup to Azure storage. Altaro VM Backup supports high-end capabilities such as Immutable Cloud Storage for an extra layer of protection from ransomware. Progent is an Altaro partner and can provide a broad range of remote or onsite consulting services to help you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot a modern backup/restore solution based on Altaro VM Backup. With ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, Progent offers a managed backup/restore service based on Altaro VM Backup technology. For details, go to Altaro VM Backup consulting services.

ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup Solutions for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 offers rudimentary archiving but does not have native support for key data protection services like Exchange backups or long-term point-in-time data recovery for OneDrive or SharePoint. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup provides a feature-rich BDR solution for automatic backup and rapid recovery of all your organization's M365 mail, Microsoft Teams Chats, SharePoint sites, OneDrive for Business files, and content on Windows endpoints. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and offers ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) 365 Total Backup to deliver comprehensive management services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup suite. ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup provides an affordable backup-as-a-service (BaaS) solution that guards M365 apps against data loss or corruption caused by human or software error, malevolent deletion, and malware assaults like ransomware. To find out more, see ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup services for Microsoft 365.

Fully Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO automates and monitors your backup processes and allow fast recovery of critical files, applications and VMs that have become lost or corrupted due to hardware breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS ECHO can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can provide world-class expertise to configure ProSight DPS ECHO to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when necessary, can help you to restore your critical data. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO managed cloud backup.

ProSight MSP360 Backup Services
Progent's data protection experts can help your company to create, implement and debug a backup/restore solution based on MSP360 technology. MSP360 offers file/folder or image-based backup/restore for VMs and physical computers, works with all leading public clouds, and allows businesses to create a backup solution with a low RTO and a defined Recovery Point Objective. With ProSight MSP360 Backup, Progent offers end-to-end monitoring and management of your backup environment to protect against data loss resulting from user mistakes, computer errors, ill-intentioned users, and malware attacks like ransomware. For more information, visit ProSight MSP360 Backup solutions.

Consulting for Double-Take Software for Backup/Restore
Double-Take Software offers a family of tools designed to deliver small and midsize companies a range of cost-effective alternatives for replicating and recovering business-critical applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL, Blackberry, and Microsoft Office SharePoint. Progent's business continuity planning experts have extensive experience incorporating Double-Take technology into small company information networks to create a high state of availability and business continuity readiness at a budget-friendly price. To read more, see Consulting Services Double-Take Software for Backup.

Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Certified AI Cloud Partner and provides high-level application expertise for a broad range of business software programs, Progent is able to help customers to find efficient IT solutions that maximize the business value of your IT network. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent can provide the support of certified engineers and specialists with expertise in architecting, configuring and troubleshooting infrastructure solutions based on Cisco products. The extent of Progent's technical know-how and Progent's appreciation for the needs of small and midsize companies make Progent a great resource for building and running a cost-effective, high-availability information system.

How You Can Access Progent's Experts for Business Continuity Solutions Support
To ask Progent about consulting expertise for workplace recovery planning, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.