What Is Hybrid Cloud Backup?

Overview

CBR allows you to synchronize backups of on-premises VMware VMs to the cloud, manage these backups, and restore data to cloud servers using such backups.

Hybrid cloud backup includes:

• VMware backup: You can synchronize the backups of VMware VMs to the cloud.

If a disaster happens to your data center or the fiber network becomes inaccessible, you can use the backups to quickly create servers on the cloud, minimizing service downtime. You can also replicate the backups to other regions as needed to quickly deploy services on the cloud.

Figure 1 Hybrid cloud backup architecture

Advantages

• Cost-effectiveness

  CBR provides pay-per-use billing and elastic scaling of resources to keep costs down. By contrast, building a DR center on-premises is costly, time-consuming, and labor intensive.

• Cloud-based DR

  Most conventional backup software cannot restore data to cloud servers. However, you can use CBR to migrate on-premises backups to the cloud for data restoration on-premises or in the cloud.

• Fast data restoration

  To migrate an on-premises data center to the cloud or migrate services across regions in the cloud, usually you need to provision new cloud servers, manually configure software and domain names, and commission the system, which takes a long time. CBR allows you to synchronize on-premises backups to the cloud, and then restore data to cloud servers from the backups within minutes.