Maximize Your Data Security with Nfina’s Immutable Backups

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Traditional backup methods can often be intrusive and limited in their capabilities. Typically, backups only run after hours and perform a single rollback point per day, leaving your system vulnerable to potential Ransomware attacks. If the backup immunity pool is not adequate, it can be overwritten daily, putting your data at risk. Moreover, backups can become corrupted if they are reachable from the production environment, leading to potential data loss. This is where Nfina’s innovative immutable read only snapshot technology shines. By utilizing Copy-on-Write technology, Nfina’s storage, hyperconverged, and hybrid cloud solutions allow for frequent snapshots without impacting production performance. Customers can run snapshots as frequently as every 15 minutes, creating numerous restore points throughout the workday. With snapshot technology, changes in the file system are tracked efficiently without consuming additional space on your system. This ensures that your data remains secure and easily recoverable in case of any unexpected incidents or failures.

Figure 1 illustrates how Copy-on-Write file systems track changes in the file system effectively and efficiently by leveraging snapshot technology to protect against potential data loss or corruption events.

Furthermore, it can be cumbersome to restore VM’s and OSs from ISOs, then restore the data from backups. This method of recovery is slow and fraught with error and potential inconsistencies. You may never be able to get data back from exactly where you were prior to the event. However, by utilizing immutable backups, a more efficient and reliable solution can be implemented. Immutable backups offer a way to capture the exact state of your system at a specific point in time minimizing the risk of modification or deletion. This ensures that even in the event of a disaster, your data remains secure and intact. With immutable backups, restoring VM’s and OS’s becomes seamless and quick, allowing for minimal downtime and maximum productivity within your organization.

Nfina immutable backups offer a revolutionary solution for data protection and recovery. Through the Nfina-View orchestration layer, users can easily clone, test, and roll back snapshots with just a simple click of a button. This streamlined process eliminates the need for manual intervention and significantly reduces the time required to restore systems compared to traditional backup methods. With Nfina snapshots, restoring data takes only minutes instead of hours or even days, providing users with unparalleled efficiency and peace of mind in safeguarding their valuable information. This innovative technology sets a new standard in data management by offering seamless immutable backups that are both reliable and user-friendly.

Also, Nfina’s immutability backups snapshots are typically taken at the Lun or file-share level, so you don’t have to specify which files, folders, or virtual machines you want to include. However, the restoration process level does provide the granularity to restore the VM, folder, or file, if you so desire.

In all Nfina clustered systems, snapshots have customizable policies for data frequency and retention, and can be simultaneously sent to multiple geo-redundant restoration locations. Our standard hybrid cloud offering includes 4-way mirroring for both on-prem and cloud production systems. As seen in Figure 2, the geo-redundant Nfina hybrid cloud stores 12 copies of data at any point-in-time a snapshot is taken. This level of redundancy guarantees maximum uptime and allows for quick recreation of your IT Ecosystem in case of a disaster – exactly when you need it most.