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Barracuda Backup

Product Specialist Official Curriculum

Todays schedule
1.

Marketplace overview

2.

Technology

3.

Sizing guidelines

4.

Next steps

Marketplace overview

Barracuda Backup

Market needs
Protection against data loss
Efficient use of facilities, bandwidth, and storage media

Support for multiple platforms and data types


Centralized administration and reporting

Backups are critically important


90% of companies that lose their data in a disaster are
out of business within two years.

Losing critical business data brings work to a


standstill
Data loss may result in negligence lawsuits
Its amazing that we have to convince users to buy
backup products

Traditional backup approach


Fragmented products

Backup software
VM protection
Deduplication
Local storage devices
Transportation offsite
Offsite storage facility

Managing everything separately is difficult,


frustrating and error-prone

Barracuda approach
Barracuda Backup: a complete end-to-end solution

Simple and cost-effective


Cloud storage and centralized cloud-based management
Incremental forever
Efficient deduplication
Application-aware
Physical & virtual machine backups
LiveBoot from appliance or cloud

Technology
Barracuda Backup

Incremental forever

Initial
complete
backup

Intelligently
targets
changes

Decreases
backup
window

Requires less
storage

Deduplication
Retention on 1 TB of backed up data.
37 TBs on tape
10 daily

8 weekly

1-2 TBs on Barracuda Backup

12 monthly
7 yearly

Industry leading deduplication technology dramatically reduces backup


storage footprint up to 50X
Efficient replication offsite over network connections

Administration
Manage multiple backup appliances from
anywhere via Barracuda Cloud Control

Administration
Manage appliances locally if cloud control cannot
be used due to connectivity or policy issues

Status
Comprehensive information screen shows real-time status of Barracuda
Backup appliance at a glance

Backup Activity

Backup Sources

Storage History

Graphs and trends

Data sources

Windows, Linux, and UNIX file systems or shares

Client-side deduplication possible with Barracuda Backup Agent

Windows System State

Exchange and SQL/SharePoint databases

VM hosts (no agent needed)

Replication options

Barracuda Backup Server

Local Office

Barracuda Cloud Storage

Flexible scheduling

Backups can be run as often


as needed weekly, daily, or
multiple times each day

Replication rate limits


Critical for customers with limited bandwidth
Smart mode measures available bandwidth
Alternate rate limits for production and off-hours
Rate limits can be configured separately for each destination

Retention policies
Grandfather / father / son model

Define different retention policies


for each data set
Use pre-defined templates or
customize as needed
Monthly and yearly data can be
vaulted to remote storage

Restore browser
Simple interface to select and restore data
Multiple Restore options

Original location
Alternate machine or path
Administrators workstation
Copy.com folder

Restore browser
Simple interface to select and restore data
VMware & Hyper-V
Restore virtual machines to
original or alternate hosts
Drill down into VM backup images
and download individual files and
folders

Restore browser
Simple interface to select and restore data

Application data recovery


Microsoft Exchange full databases
or individual messages
SQL databases
SharePoint objects
(requires Kroll Ontrack)

Bare Metal Live recovery


Automatically restore Windows
backup images to a new machine
Download ISO image and burn to CD/DVD
Boot new machine with disc
Choose backup image and disk volumes
from backup list
Automated drive partitioning, formatting,
and data restore

LiveBoot
VMware virtual machines can be booted
directly from a backup image without
restoring, staging, or temporary files
LiveBoot on backup server

Backup server mounted as a datastore on ESX/ESXi host


Administrator can move live VM to production host using
vMotion

LiveBoot in the cloud

Replicated backup runs in cloud virtual machine


VMs can be controlled via VNC or assigned a public IP
address
Instant Replacement subscription required

Sizing Guidelines
Barracuda Backup

Model Comparison

Model

190

290

390

490

690

890

990

995

1090

Suggested
backup
volume

250 GB

500 GB

1 TB

2 TB

4 TB

8 TB

16 TB

32 TB

50 TB

Internal
capacity

500 GB

1 TB

2 TB

4 TB

8 TB

16 TB

36 TB

72 TB

112 TB

Feature Differences by Model

390 +

Mirroring or redundant disk arrays (RAID)

490 +

Swappable disks and site-to-site replication


(receive data)

890 +

Hot-swappable disks and redundant power modules,


optional 10 GB Ethernet

Barracuda Cloud Storage Subscriptions

Two copies of data stored on


redundant hardware

US $0.25 per GB purchased in


200GB units (US $50 / month)

Unlimited Cloud Storage


(price varies per model)

Next Steps

Barracuda Backup

Hands-On
Free 30-day evaluation
Contact your local Barracuda Networks sales representative

Live online demos


http://barracuda.com/demos

Technical training
Webinars scheduled for all time zones
Sign up at http://bu.barracuda.com

Getting Assistance
Online help & documentation
http://techlib.barracuda.com

Technical Support is available 24/7/365


North America: +1 408 342 5300
Europe: +43 (0) 5081 007 800 or +44 (0) 1256 300 102

Thank you
Larry Cadloff
Barracuda University

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