Enterprise Cloud Backup and Recovery withSymantec NetBackup™

Data Sheet: Backup and Disaster Recovery

Overview of Symantec NetBackup™

As the established market leader, Symantec NetBackup™ delivers reliable backup and recovery across applications,

platforms, physical and virtual environments.1 A single console unites the management and reporting of both on-premises

and on-cloud information to provide additional operating efficiencies and simplified administration. The NetBackup

platform has deep VMware® and Microsoft Hyper-V® integration, built-in deduplication to protect the private cloud,

seamless integration with industry-leading public cloud storage providers, self-service and multi-tenancy for backup as a

service (BaaS).

The NetBackup cloud storage module enables you to backup and restore data from cloud storage providers and is

integrated with Symantec's Open Storage (OST) module which provides features that can enhance the operational

experience of backup and recovery from the cloud.

Introduction to features

NetBackup Cloud Storage enablement is integrated with the Symantec OpenStorage Technology module and provides

features that can enhance the operational experience of backup and recovery from the cloud. These NetBackup features

include:

NetBackup Cloud Storage Configuration WizardNetBackup Cloud Storage Configuration Wizard—Incorporated to facilitate the cloud storage setup and storage

provisioning. This now happens entirely through the NetBackup interface. If there is no Key Management Service (KMS)

already configured, the Cloud Storage Server Configuration Wizard includes steps to create and enable KMS.

NetBackup Cloud Storage EncrNetBackup Cloud Storage Encrypyptiontion—Encrypts the data inline before it is sent to the cloud, interfaces with the KMS to

leverage its ability to manage encryption keys, and uses an AES 256 cipher feedback (CFB) mode encryption.

NetBackup Cloud Storage ThroNetBackup Cloud Storage Throttlingttling—Controls the data transfer rates between the network and the cloud. The throttling

values are set on a per NetBackup media server basis. In certain implementations, users may want to limit WAN usage for

backups and restores to the cloud so they do not constrain other network activity. Throttling provides a mechanism for

NetBackup Administrators to limit NetBackup Cloud Storage traffic. By implementing a limit to cloud WAN traffic, it cannot

consume more than the allocated bandwidth. NetBackup Cloud Storage Throttling lets users configure and control the

following:

• Different bandwidth value for both read and writes operations.

• Maximum number of connections that are supported for the cloud provider at any given time.

NetBackup Cloud Storage MeteringNetBackup Cloud Storage Metering—Enables users to monitor data transfers within the tool through reports. Cloud-

based storage is unlike traditional tape or disk media, which use persistent backup images and calculates cloud-based

storage costs per byte stored and per byte transferred. The NetBackup Cloud Storage software uses several techniques to

minimize stored and transferred data, and as a result, traditional catalog-based information about the amount of protected

data no longer equates to the amount of data that is stored or transferred. Metering allows installations to monitor the

amount of data that is transferred on a per media server basis across one or more cloud-based storage providers. Metering

reports are generated through NetBackup OpsCenter.

1. Market Share: Storage Management Software, Worldwide, 2011, Gartner (May 2012) , Based on WW Revenue.

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NetBackup Cloud Storage SerNetBackup Cloud Storage Service Containervice Container—Performs the following functions:

• Controls the configuration parameters that are related to NetBackup Cloud Storage.

• Generates the metering information for the metering plug-in.

• Controls the network bandwidth usage with the help of throttling plug-in.

• On Windows®, it is a standard service installed by NetBackup. On UNIX®, it runs as a standard daemon.

Nothing to install

NetBackup currently supports three of the industry-leading cloud storage providers: Amazon™, AT&T® , and Rackspace®.

The NetBackup platform includes the plugins to attach any of these cloud storage backup targets to the enterprise. Just

enter the credentials to authenticate and an easy to follow NetBackup cloud setup wizard will do the rest for you.

For those who want a private cloud backup solution, don't forget our Auto Image Replication (AIR) capabilities and the

Symantec NetBackup™ 5200 series of Appliances—the industry's first heterogeneous cloud gateway for backups.

Business value

As many businesses increasingly leverage the cloud for applications and services, they want to protect and manage those

environments with a backup and recovery solution they can trust. By taking the same proven solutions that organizations

have come to rely on and extending them to their private cloud or storage providers integrated with NetBackup,

organizations can enjoy the peace of mind knowing their information is protected by the NetBackup platform.

Safeguarding an organization's invaluable data with NetBackup key business benefits including operational expense

reduction. NetBackup can write data to the cloud, enabling end-users with the flexibility to add cloud for operational

expense reduction purposes or to serve as part of a global disaster recovery strategy. One of the most common use-cases

for cloud storage backup in enterprises is to replace or augment tape-based off-site storage for disaster recovery readiness.

The NetBackup platform can provide you with that capability today.

Integration with cloud storage providers

NetBackup integrates with cloud storage providers via the NetBackup Connector, allowing IT departments to manage cloud

storage for backup and recovery as easily as on-premise storage, but with lower costs and improved flexibility.

Organizations can leverage the cloud as a new storage tier or as a secondary off-site location for disaster recovery.

Enterprise customers may be hesitant to move to the cloud because they feel they cannot get the comprehensive level of

data security that they get in their physical environments. Also, latency, long backup windows, bandwidth costs, and unmet

RTO objectives, are barriers to cloud adoption for large enterprises. Other requirements focus around a single point of

control and a uniform method for managing the protection of a diverse range of applications. A NetBackup platform-based

approach enables protection to be applied across a diverse range of applications running either on-premise or in the cloud.

NetBackup will ensure that cloud storage environments are protected and applications running in the cloud can be

recovered in the case of a disaster or corruption. When the NetBackup platform is extended to protect a cloud storage

environment, customers can feel confident moving their applications to the cloud as they can rely on their existing

NetBackup infrastructure to protect their cloud storage environment.

Amazon Simple Storage Service™ and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud™

Amazon Simple Storage Service™ (S3) is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make Web-scale computing easier for

customers and provides a Web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data from the Web. It

gives customers access to the same infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of websites. The service

aims to achieve economies of scale and to pass those benefits on to customers.

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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud™ (EC2) is a Web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. EC2's Web

service interface allows users to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction and is also designed to make Web-

scale computing easier for customers. It provides users with control of computing resources and runs on Amazon's

computing environment. Amazon EC2 allows users to pay only for capacity that is used. Amazon EC2 provides customers

with the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios.

Cloud as Backup Storage

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

NetBackup has a cloud connector to allow for backups to be copied to Amazon S3, both in the US as well as regional

buckets. Encryption (AES-256) is provided as standard functionality.

While the connector is generally utilized for on premises servers sending their backup data to the cloud, some customers

are deploying NetBackup servers in the cloud and storing data, using the S3 connector, to S3 storage.

Glacier

Amazon Glacier offers a substantial cost savings over S3 at the expense of restore times and additional access costs. Due to

these issues, NetBackup currently does not offer a native support for sending data directly to Glacier (i.e. via cloud

connector).

Customers wishing to utilize the lower cost of Glacier have a few options outside of NetBackup, including utilization of the

Amazon Cloud Gateway (see more information below). Third party cloud gateways are also an option, however none are

integrated with NetBackup at this time. NetBackup can only restore data from a local source, therefore the data must

be returned locally prior to being restored. NetBackup will have no visibility into the data that is sent to Amazon S3 or

Glacier from third party devices such as Riverbed and Panzura.

AWS Storage Gateway

In addition to providing cloud infrastructure, compute and storage, Amazon has also provided tools to enable customers

the ability to transfer data to the Amazon cloud.

The AWS Storage Gateway is a service connecting an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to provide

seamless and secure integration between on-premises IT environment and the AWS storage infrastructure. There are

three configurations for the AWS Storage Gateway:

1. Gateway-Cached Volumes: You can store your primary data in Amazon S3, and retain your frequently accessed data

locally.

2. Gateway-Stored Volumes: In the event you need low-latency access to your entire data set, you can configure your on-

premises gateway to store your primary data locally, and asynchronously back up point-in-time snapshots of this data

to Amazon S3.

3. Gateway-Virtual Tape Library (Gateway-VTL): With Gateway-VTL you can have a limitless collection of virtual

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Media Server in AWS Cloud

EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)

NetBackup is supported in the Cloud under the same criteria that it is supported in any virtualized environment. For more

information on running NetBackup in a virtualized environment, please refer to http://www.symantec.com/docs/

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In Amazon, NetBackup should be run in a virtual private cloud (VPC). This is now the preferred implementation from the

perspective of Amazon. A VPC provides you with a static IP address for NetBackup.

Amazon EBS can be used as Basic or Advanced disk. Since EBS is also only available in region, there is no DR without the

snapshot of EBS to S3.

AT&T Synaptic Storage as a ServiceSM

Symantec's Open Storage Technology (OST) has been tightly integrated to the AT&T's Synaptic Storage as a Service offering

and provides a single point of management and control for cloud-based backups. With this technology NetBackup can take

advantage of storage lifecycle policies and synthetic backups to the Cloud.

AT&T has selected a storage solution for their back-end storage offering that is based on an object-orientated design. It is a

multitenant architecture that AT&T uses to provide customers, both internal and external, with on-demand storage. AT&T is

unique in that the customer pays on usage with no minimum or maximum requirement. This makes the AT&T Synaptic

Storage as a Service a flexible and cost-effective offering for those seeking to leverage the cloud.

As stated above the AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service offering is based on an object storage module, and while not new,

an Object-based Storage Device (OSD) can be described as a computer storage device, similar to disk storage, but works at

a higher level. Instead of providing a block oriented interface that reads and writes fixed size blocks of data, an Object

Storage Device organizes data into flexible size data containers, called objects. By way of definition, object storage is the

process of storing and accessing data based on object names and metadata that describe the concept or objects.

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Rackspace® Cloud Files

Rackspace® Cloud Files is fully integrated with NetBackup. With the complete suite of OpenStack®-based cloud solutions,

Rackspace has more than 190,000 customers worldwide and offers an open, fast, and simple cloud experience without the

fear of being locked-in to proprietary technologies. Cloud Files, powered by OpenStack, is the ideal cloud storage solution

with a simple pay-as-you-go pricing model and no long-term contracts. With Cloud Files, data is triple-replicated and

backed by the renowned Rackspace Fanatical Support™.

Private cloud backup

For those who want a private cloud backup solution, but don't want to install NetBackup, they can bring in a Symantec

NetBackup™ 5220 Appliance.

NetBackup 5220 has a Wide Area Network (WAN) Optimization driver built in to provide two times faster throughput over

and above the performance gain from NetBackup Accelerator.

And by incorporating the use of targeted Auto Image Replication (AIR), an organization can reduce potential downtime for

it's DR or Business Continuance planning.

Figure 1. Introducing NetBackup 5220 Appliances.

Up to 100 times faster cloud backups

The primary challenge in using cloud storage backup is the need for a large pipe to accommodate backup traffic. With

NetBackup Accelerator, users can perform full backups from the site to the cloud storage provider up to 100 times faster

only using the bandwidth that's normally required for an incremental backup.2 There is no need to compromise on recovery

point objectives.

Backup as a Service:

Whether offering backup or recovery services to external customers or to your own users internally through an IT service

model, NetBackup has the tools to get you there. Build your service on the NetBackup platform with NetBackup Appliances

to achieve rapid deployment and time-to-value. Take advantage of self-service restore, capacity license metering,

chargeback reporting, multi-tenant integration with the Front Office for NetBackup option, and special MSP pricing. For

disaster recovery, combine NetBackup Auto Image Replication (AIR) with P2V Conversion to offer DRaaS within a cloud

based on VMware.

For more information see the Front Office for NetBackup Datasheet

2. ESG, "How Symantec NetBackup Backs Up 100x Faster," May 2012.

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Conclusion

From 2005 to 2020, the digital universe will almost double every two years and grow by a factor of 300, from 130 exabytes

to 40,000 exabytes, or 40 trillion gigabytes.3 This is an extraordinary amount of data. All of it must be stored, backed up,

managed, and in many cases analyzed. Enterprises are challenged to reduce costs, and also take on ever increasing data

demands. NetBackup platform technologies united with cloud storage solutions can assist customers in managing the

entire lifecycle of structured and unstructured data addressing the need for longterm secure and cost-effective data

protection.

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3. IDC Digital Universe Study, 2012

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