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Backup as a Service (BaaS) |
Discover the epitome of consistent data protection with ScerIS’s Backup as a Service (BaaS), designed to offer automatic replication of your storage devices. Revel in the “set it and forget it” capabilities as our service encompasses meticulously defined restore points based on time of day, date, month, and yearly intervals. Configuring retention periods for each restore point is a breeze, making data recovery straightforward and hassle-free.
Simplicity at Core: Successful backup operations hinge on simplicity, and our BaaS epitomizes this principle. We offer an intelligent backup service that seamlessly replicates your storage devices. Designate data restore points based on time, day, date, month, or even yearly, with specified retention times for each. Our flexible configuration environment also allows manual creation of restore points whenever needed. Employing Constant Data Protection (CDP) technology, we ensure full backups of identified storage devices at each specified restore point. Changes are incessantly and automatically processed, negating the need to access multiple restore points for a single restore. Define your retention periods effortlessly, whether it’s retaining restore points for the last 7 days or the last 12 months, ScerIS BaaS securely harbors all specified restore points for the duration of the retention periods.
Flexibility Unleashed: Attain peace of mind concerning information availability whether your source servers are virtual, physical, on-premise, or hosted at one of our data centers. Choose from file-level, partition-level, or full server-level data from restore points to meet your restoration demands. Select your backup data location from a list of ScerIS data centers worldwide, embodying flexibility to cater to your unique needs.
Our BaaS services come with independent cloud backup locations within highly available environments, spread across multiple, geographically dispersed data centers, all fortified with numerous hardware, power, and connectivity redundancy technologies. For large initial disk “seeding” requirements, our Storage Dock Service facilitates sending physical storage media to expedite the onboarding process. Recovery points encapsulate all data within the block volume/disk/LUN for the selected server(s) under backup protection.
Reliability & Efficiency Ensured: With geographically dispersed sites, we ensure information availability even amidst widespread disasters. Merging Tier 3 data center reliability features with redundant and highly available hardware, we stand by our 99.99% data center SLA promise. Our 24x7x365 support from seasoned ScerIS engineers is a testament to our commitment. With ScerIS BaaS, rest assured that specified backup regimens are operational, with round-the-clock verification ensuring restore point schedules are met and data replication is successful.
Q: How much storage capacity will the restore point/snapshot consume?
A: The amount of storage consumed by the server restore points/snapshots is dependent on:
- the size of the servers’ storage volume that is targeted for backup.
- the retention time of each restore point/snapshot.
- the frequency that restore points/snapshots are created.
- the change profile of the of the server storage volume to be targeted for backup.
For guidance on how to categorize your servers by change profile, use the information below:
Low Change
The low change profile is a guideline for servers you know have minimal new or updated data like file servers hosting archives, time management systems where data is seldom updated or added but frequently read.
Average Change
The average change profile is a guideline to use for servers that do not fall in either of the other two categories.
High Change
The high change profile is a guideline for servers you know change significantly during the day. Email servers, transactional databases, and servers with collaboration software fall into this category.
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Snapshot creation schedule and retention |
Monthly Storage |
Monthly Storage |
Monthly Storage |
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Scenario #1 |
One snapshot scheduled for every hour with one hour retention and one snapshot daily retained for 5 days |
120.3% of total storage capacity |
168% of total storage capacity |
213% of total storage capacity |
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Scenario #2 |
One snapshot scheduled for every hour with one hour retention and one snapshot daily retained for 7 days |
120.45% of total storage capacity |
188% of total storage capacity |
251% of total storage capacity |
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Scenario #3 |
One snapshot weekly that is retained for 1 month |
122% of total storage capacity |
178% of total storage capacity |
237% of total storage capacity |
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Scenario #4 |
One snapshot per month retained for 3 months |
124% of total storage capacity |
203% of total storage capacity |
266% of total storage capacity |
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Scenario #5 |
One snapshot per month retained for 12 months |
132% of total storage capacity |
270% of total storage capacity |
294% of total storage capacity |
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Scenario #6 |
One snapshot per year retained for 3 years |
126% of total storage capacity |
170% of total storage capacity |
230% of total storage capacity |
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Scenario #7 |
One snapshot scheduled for every hour with one hour retention and one snapshot daily retained for 5 days, and one snapshot |
177.3 % of total storage capacity
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363% of total storage capacity
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427% of total storage capacity
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Scenario #8 |
One snapshot scheduled for every hour with one hour retention and one snapshot daily retained for 7 days, and one snapshot |
177.45% of total storage capacity
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383% of total storage capacity
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465% of total storage capacity |
Example Calculation for Backup Storage Estimation
Acme Inc. needs to have hourly snapshots to protect for daily business operations and a daily snapshot retained for 5 days to be used by the marketing group and also needs to retain monthly snapshots for a year to meet accounting requirements. This would be Scenario #7. Assume the server storage targeted for backup is 2 Terabytes and it includes an Exchange server and the transaction database for orders, so the server change profile would be “High Change.” The estimation for the amount of backup storage consumed by Acme Inc. is:
(2 Terabytes x 427%) = 8.54 Terabytes for Backup per month