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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.

Non-stop Solutions Supported by Progent
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified support professionals can assist your business to design an efficient, zero-downtime IT architecture that resolves major problems covering a wide array of infrastructure technologies and operations including:

Business Continuity Planning
Progent's business continuity engineers can help you create a disaster recovery plan in order to resume IT operations in case of an IT network disaster. Progent can assist you to create a complete disaster recovery strategy that includes periodic disaster recovery assessments and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified engineers can also help you create an affordable, fault-tolerant system architecture that takes into account availability issues involving a broad range of network technologies and procedures. To find out more, go to Business Continuity Consulting.

CRISC-Certified Network Risk Mitigation
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to develop and execute a business continuity plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. To read more, go to CRISC-Certified IT risk management experts.

Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 incorporated important enhancements in capacity, throughput, management, security and compliance, app compatibility, Linux support, Kubernetes technology, and hybrid integration of on-premises and cloud assets. Headline new features of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 are Windows Admin Center for centralizing the management of hybrid local/cloud resources, System Insights for utilizing modern predictive intelligence to control local environments, Windows Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) Exploit Guard for host-intrusion prevention, container orchestration using Kubernetes, Cluster Sets for creating and administering massive high-availability scale-out clusters, and Microsoft's Storage Migration Service for streamlining the migration from legacy versions of Windows Server. For details, see Microsoft Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering Expertise.

Microsoft Server 2016 Disaster Recovery
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery experts can assist you to plan and deploy a disaster recovery system built around Microsoft's most advanced Failover Clustering technologies such as Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade for non-disruptive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for zero-data-loss Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Storage Spaces Direct for enterprise-class storage clusters using low-cost hardware, VM Load Balancing for improving the performance and fault-tolerance of Failover Clusters while minimizing capital investment and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for easy, affordable creation of a failover cluster quorum witness. To learn more, go to Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Expertise.

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is an extension to VMware vCenter that lets you specify, automate and verify a repeatable workflow for recovering services quickly after a breakdown. SRM provides centrally controlled and automated recovery, application mobility, and non-intrusive site relocation, failback and re-protect. SRM also enables transparent testing for site recovery, updates and patches and can produce audit reports to verify full service recovery, validate SLAs and prove DR compliance. Progent offers the skills of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consulting expert to assist your organization to plan, deploy, test and maintain a DR solution powered by VMware Site Recovery Manager.

NetApp MetroCluster High Availability and Disaster Recovery Software
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery platform that uses failover storage clustering along with continual replication to deliver rapid, zero data loss disaster recovery between sites that are as far as 300km apart. Progent offers access to a NetApp MetroCluster expert who can help you to plan, configure, administer, update, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery solution based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to select an architecture for your MetroCluster deployment that aligns with your technical requirements and budget. Progent can make sure you adhere to leading practices for configuring your MetroCluster environment by providing guidance with tasks like assigning disk pools and shelf IDs, arranging aggregate and plexes layout, provisioning NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, installing switches, implementing a tiebreaker mechanism, setting up a configuration replication network, and verifying your disaster recovery solution to prove compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.

High Availability Load Balancing
Progent provides high availability load balancing support covering network load balancing, load balanced programs, LAN/WAN infrastructure routing, and content delivery products such as F5 Networks 3DNS. Non-stop load balancing technologies for which Progent can provide consulting services include Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Presentation Server, Cisco CSS, Cisco Distributed Director and ACNS, and F5 Networks BIG-IP. For details, see Non-stop Load Balancing.

Fault Tolerant Data Centers
Progent's Data Center engineers can show you how to find high availability data centers that meet the particular needs of your business. Fault tolerant co-location sites are especially appealing to small and mid-size organizations due to of their affordability and convenience in comparison to pursuing a do-it-yourself strategy. Attempting to design an on-site data center with even a basic level of fault tolerance is financially prohibitive for most small companies. Progent is ready to help you get all the benefits of high-availability data centers by providing a full range of consulting and maintenance services. For more information, visit Fault Tolerant Colocation Solutions.

24x7 Branch Office Networking
Progent's interoffice connectivity engineers can help organizations achieve fault tolerant branch office connections through fully redundant system architectures featuring automatic failover. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE engineers can plan and deploy ultra-reliable Inter-office networks based on non-stop EIGRP network routers or non-stop OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Progent can demonstrate how redundant connectivity and transparent fail-over can provide economical 24x7 interoffice connectivity. To find out more, see High-Availability Interoffice Connectivity.

High Availability Internet Access
Progent's Cisco-certified network experts can help you create an affordable, high availability Internet configuration architecture that can achieve 24x7 Internet connectivity via a wide array of high availability Internet access technologies including fault tolerant BGP, transparent fail-over, and redundant Internet Service Providers. Progent can provide CCIE engineers to show you how to apply the latest technology for 24x7 Internet connectivity to create an economical, completely redundant Internet network with automatic failover and other capabilities to create fault tolerant Internet connections. To find out more, visit High Availability Internet Connectivity Architecture.

Backup and Recovery Solutions Consulting Services
Progent can provide economical online access to consultants with expertise in a wide array of products and services that provide solutions for protecting Windows, Mac, and Linux servers and workstations plus laptops and smartphones. Progent can provide expertise for all major data protection platforms including Acronis Backup and Recovery, Backup Exec, BackupAssist, HP Data Protector, Double-Take, MozyPro, Retrospect for Macintosh, Time Machine, vSphere Data Protection, and Solaris FLARs. Progent can help your company to install, enhance, or troubleshoot data backup solutions for a variety of architectures including local, edge to datacenter, cloud-based, or hybrid. To learn more, visit Backup and Recovery Technology Consulting and Support Services.

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Data Recovery Consulting Experts
Progent's expert System Center Data Protection Manager engineers can assist you to create an effective workplace recovery plan, design an affordable fault-tolerante IT infrastructure, deploy a System Center Data Protection Manager-based recovery system, thoroughly test your system, educate your IT personnel or local consultants how to manage Microsoft SCDPM, or provide complete information technology outsourcing such as remote hosting of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager machines in Progent's data center. For details, go to System Center Data Protection Manager Consulting and Support Services.

ProSight Altaro VM Backup Software for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Altaro VM Backup offers small and mid-size businesses a reliable and affordable solution for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines (VMs). Altaro VM Backup can be used for local, offsite, distributed, and cloud-hosted environments and also supports low-cost cloud backup to Azure Block Blob storage. Altaro VM Backup supports advanced capabilities like Immutable Cloud Storage for enhanced protection from ransomware. Progent is an Altaro partner and offers a broad array of online or onsite consulting services to help you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot a modern backup and disaster recovery solution based on Altaro VM Backup software. With ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, Progent offers a fully managed backup/recovery service based on Altaro VM Backup. To learn more, visit Altaro VM Backup consulting services.

ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup Services for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 offers rudimentary archiving but does not include integrated support for crucial data protection capabilities such as Exchange backups or greater than 30-day point-in-time recovery for OneDrive for Business or SharePoint Online. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup delivers a feature-rich platform for automatic backup and quick recovery of all your organization's M365 mail, Teams Chats, SharePoint documents, OneDrive for Business data, and content on Windows desktops and laptops. Progent is an authorized Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and offers ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup to deliver end-to-end management services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup suite. ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup delivers an affordable backup-as-a-service (BaaS) alternative that guards M365 apps against data loss or corruption caused by user or system mistakes, malevolent corruption, and cyber attacks like ransomware. For more information, visit ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup solutions for Microsoft 365.

Fully Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO provide small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO automates your backup processes and enable fast recovery of critical data, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS ECHO to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to recover your business-critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS ECHO managed cloud backup.

ProSight MSP360 Backup Solutions
Progent's data protection experts can assist you to design, implement and debug a backup/restore plan built around MSP360 software. MSP360 offers file or image backup/restore for virtual machines and physical machines, works with all leading public clouds, and allows you to build a data protection ecosystem with a low Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and a defined Recovery Point Objective (RPO). With ProSight MSP360 Backup, Progent can provide end-to-end monitoring and remote management of your backup system to protect against data loss caused by human mistakes, system glitches, malicious users, and malware attacks such as ransomware. For more information, see ProSight MSP360 Backup solutions.

Consulting Services Double-Take Software for Backup and Recovery
Double-Take Software publishes a selection of tools designed to provide small and midsize companies a variety of cost-effective alternatives for backing up and restoring business-critical applications including Exchange, SQL Server, RIM Blackberry, and Microsoft SharePoint. Progent's business continuity planning experts have extensive experience integrating Double-Take Software technology into small business information systems to achieve an advanced state of availability and disaster recovery capability at a budget-friendly price. To read more, visit Consulting for Double-Take Software for Data Backup.

Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Since Progent is a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner and offers specialized application consulting for a broad variety of small business applications, Progent is able to assist clients to arrive at complete IT solutions that optimize the business value of your network. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent can provide the services of premier engineers and specialists with expertise in architecting, deploying and maintaining infrastructure solutions built on Cisco technology. The depth of Progent's technical know-how and Progent's appreciation for the requirements of small and midsize companies make Progent a great resource for creating and maintaining a cost-effective, fault-tolerant information system.

How You Can Contact Progent's Consultants for Business Continuity Solutions Help
In order to ask Progent about consulting help for disaster recovery solutions, phone 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.