Linux Server Backup
Solution from NAKIVO
Protect data on Linux servers and workstations, maintain production continuity and enhance the resilience of your IT infrastructure with the NAKIVO solution.
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Fast and Reliable Server Backup Software for Linux
Keep your Linux servers safe without the overhead. The NAKIVO solution is quick to set up, easy to use and gives you fast, reliable backups and restores – all from a single web dashboard.
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What You Get with Linux Backup
Software from NAKIVO
Smaller Linux Server Backups, Bigger Savings
Optimize data protection with smaller and faster incremental backups. Diversify storage with cloud and tape options to eliminate a single point of failure. Reduce storage costs while maintaining high backup efficiency.
Reliable Data Compliance
Align with data security regulations and standards, including NIST, NIS2, GDPR and HIPAA, using the NAKIVO solution. Apply security measures, enable backup encryption and immutability, diversify backup locations and ensure data recovery to comply with national and regional law.
Automated Administration
Automate Linux backup and recovery with custom scheduling and data protection policies. Seamlessly protect hybrid and mixed environments across multiple locations via the centralized web-based interface.
Maximize Uptime, Minimize Downtime
Choose from a variety of recovery options to quickly resume business operations. Recover across platforms, to bare metal or restore individual files, volumes and folders with minimal disruption.
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Why Back Up Linux Server with NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Fast Linux Server Incremental Backups
Run incremental backups of Linux Server. The solution uses the proprietary change tracking technology and writes only the data blocks that have changed since the previous Linux backup to the target repository. This helps offload hardware and network, save storage space, and increase backup speed.
Support for Applications and Databases
Enable the application-aware mode to create transactionally-consistent Linux server backups even of those applications that are in use. Run custom pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts that instruct applications and databases to flush pending I/O operations and in-memory data to the disk before a backup workflow is initiated.
Backup Immutability and Ransomware Resilience
To enhance data resilience, enable immutability for encrypted backups stored in a local Linux-based repository, NEC HYDRAstor file systems, cloud storage (Amazon S3, Azure Blob, Wasabi, Backblaze B2) and other S3-compatible platforms. Throughout the immutability period, backups are protected from changes, ransomware encryption and accidental deletion. Ensure that the recovered data is malware-free by scanning backups prior to granular or full server restores.
Granular Backup
Protect only the necessary volumes and folders instead of backing up the entire physical server. Folder-level backups allow you to streamline data protection and apply tight security measures to business-critical data. When needed, recover the needed folders and volumes to the location of your choice to minimize downtime.
Instant Granular Recovery
Restore a file or an app object in seconds directly from backups, without recovering the entire Linux server. The NAKIVO solution supports file servers and most common Microsoft apps, such as Active Directory, SQL Server and Exchange Server. Use the search function to find the required file or object, create up to 4,000 recovery points per backup, and recover the file or object to the original or different location.
Multiple Backup Targets
Easily apply the 3-2-1 backup rule to avoid a single point of failure and ensure data availability. Store Linux server backups in local storage for instant access and swift recovery or send copies offsite, to the cloud, S3-compatible platforms or tape. You can set Job Chaining to create backup copies and send them to different locations automatically, after each successful backup.
Automated Data Protection
Streamline your Linux data protection by initiating the backup and recovery workflows with a single click. Use the Calendar dashboard to schedule data protection activities or automate them by configuring custom policy rules. Integrate third-party tools for extended automation capabilities.
Full Linux Server Recovery
Use bare metal recovery to restore Linux servers from backups to the same or identical hardware without the need for reinstalling the OS or lengthy configurations. Reduce recovery times by recovering physical servers to virtual environments (P2V) and instantly booting fully functional VMware vSphere VMs from Linux server backups. Recovered VMs are ready for long-term use in a production environment, and you can resume production workflows swiftly after a physical machine failure.
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FAQ
Can I protect mixed IT environments with the Linux backup solution from NAKIVO?
Yes. The NAKIVO solution is an advanced backup solution for Linux that offers a variety of backup and recovery options for mixed environments. One instance of the solution allows you to protect:
- Physical: Linux and Windows servers/workstations
- Virtual: VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE
- Cloud: Amazon EC2
- SaaS: Microsoft 365
- Oracle Database via RMAN
- File shares: SMB and NFS
Instantly boot Linux servers as VMware Vsphere VMs directly from backups, use Bare Metal Recovery or use the Cross-Platform Recovery feature to convert physical machines into VMs or migrate between VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V VMs.
Can I back up file shares on Linux machines?
Yes. You can run incremental backups of your SMB/NFS file shares stored on Linux and Windows machines, and NAS devices. Pay only for the volume of data you need to back up.
The solution supports file-level recovery, backup copy and scheduling to make administration simpler.
Can a root user lift the immutability of my Linux backups?
A root user can lift the immutability applied to backups stored in local Linux-based repositories. However, immutability applied to Linux backups in public and private clouds cannot be undone until the set period expires. The same applies to backups made immutable in a local Linux repository deployed as part of a hardened VA or AMI. In this case, even the root user is unable to lift or change the backup immutability set with the solution.
Can I automate data protection activities for my Linux server?
Absolutely. Link workflows to make them run after each other or use the Policy-Based Data Protection feature to create custom policies that add matching machines to workflows automatically. For more automation capabilities, integrate NAKIVO’s solution with third-party tools via HTTP APIs.
Can I use NAKIVO’s solution for backup as a service (BaaS)?
Yes. Use the multi-tenant mode to offer BaaS, RaaS, DRaaS and other data protection services to your clients. You can manage up to 100 isolated IT environments within one instance of the solution. What’s more, you can offload data protection tasks to clients and allocate needed resources.
What do I get with the NAKIVO Free Trial?
With the NAKIVO Free Trial, you get 15 days of unlimited data protection for all workloads, including physical, virtual, cloud and SaaS. Download and install the solution in less than 5 min, no credit card required. Along with backup capabilities, you can also check out replication for VMs and EC2 instances and the Site Recovery functionality.