====== Backup and Recovery ======

In a pure or vast-majority virtual environment?  You might be looking for [[virtualization:backup|Backup and Recovery for Virtual Environments]]. \\

Backups in non-virtualized or mixed environment enterprises might not be able to take advantage of all the feature sets available to backup products that leverage hypervisor-level tools.  However, there are good tools available which work with both physical and virtual environments for something which can grow as a company moves in the direction of virtualization.


Unitrends
  * http://www.unitrends.com/
  * Available as an appliance or a virtual appliance
      * [[http://www.unitrends.com/products/appliance-family.html|Appliance Family]] \\ http://www.unitrends.com/products/appliance-family.html \\
      * [[http://www.unitrends.com/unitrends-enterprise-backup.html|Unitrends Enterprise Backup]] virtual appliance \\ http://www.unitrends.com/unitrends-enterprise-backup.html
  * vSphere, Hyper-V, and physical hosts
  * 15 minute RPO with the Appliance and as little as 60 seconds with UEB
  * Appliance can be used as a DR host, booting backup images
  * UEB gives the first four workloads to be backed up for free

AppAssure Replay (bought by Dell Feb 2012)
  * http://www.appassure.com/server-backup-and-replication/
  * Provides a single product for both physical and virtual workloads.
  * vSphere, Hyper-V, XenServer, and physical hosts
  * Automatic backup verification.
  * Both Bare Metal, application object, and file level restore.
  * 5 minute Recovery Point Objective