How e-Spirit Ensures Business Continuity with AWS & Veeam N2WS

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Meet the Speakers

Johannes Brunswicker Sebastian Straub

• DevOps Engineer at e-Spirit AG• Former e-Spirit CMS Consultant• Over 3 years experience with AWS

environments• Passion for all things automation

• Senior System Engineer at N2WS• N2WS expert• Former Systems Consultant for Dell• Former Principal Consultant at Oracle• Formerly at ScriptLogic (a division of

Quest Software)

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e-Spirit

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About e-Spirit• Founded in 1999• Digital Experience Platform

• Headless optional CMS• AI-driven personalization• Omnichannel delivery

• 65+ partners• 10,000+ projects• 1,000+ brands

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e-Spirit Transformation

...started on PREM

need for SaaS

leverage cloud

IT Automation

DevOps

agile organization

new license models

new services

more customer centric

fail fast and adapt

still moving….

TimeToMarket

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AWS Setup• Divided by

management and customer VPCs

• Customer VPC is growing fast in number of servers

• Application Servers consists of multiple services that have to be kept consistent

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Why we still need backups in AWS…

Human errors

Attacks

Compliance

EBS Failure

AZ Failure

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Our challenge

• Consistent backups of our applications• Minimize recovery from disaster (RTO)• Highly automated processes• Global availability

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Our Options

Manual EBS Snapshots

• Very time consuming and labour intensive

• No crash-consistent backups

Before AWS Lamdba

• Could automate Snapshot creation

• Still didn’t provide crash-consistent backups

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The Solution

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N2WS Backup & Recovery• One Click Deployment• Very Detailed Technical Docs• Crash-Consistent Backups

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How e-Spirit uses N2WS

• Currently we use N2WS across all of our workloads for Backup and Recovery• We currently protect over 200 instances across three regions• We are offering several backup plans to our end customers• Disaster Recovery is an almost fully automated process

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How e-Spirit uses N2WS

• Leverage automatic tag scanning to add instances to backup plans• Pre- and post-backup scripts allow us to keep applications data consistent• Monitor Backup processes through CPM REST interface• Team does monthly DR Drills to ensure process is working properly

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How e-Spirit uses N2WS

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Monitoring N2WS

Icinga invokes python script Python script will invoke N2WS REST Endpoints

check for policies get last backup report for each policy if in error, check for affected volumes create report with hostname and other details

Measuring time for snapshot creation

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Introducing N2WSBackup & Recovery

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Visit us at booth P02 1 month FREE of N2WS Backup &

Recovery

$250 AWS credits for installing (cancel any time, no auto-billing)

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