Main Features
Storware Backup and Recovery is a data protection solution for virtual environments, storage, M365, and endpoints. It provides a centralized and automated solution for data protection. It can be deployed in minutes and start to protect your environment within hours.

- VMware vSphere
- Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI
- Red Hat Virtualization
- oVirt
- Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager
- Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)
- HPE SimpliVity
- Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer) with CBT support
- XCP-ng with CBT support
- Virtuozzo
- Proxmox VE
- Oracle VM
- OpenStack (incremental backups for Ceph RBD-based environments)
- libvirt hypervisors (KVM, PowerKVM, KVM for IBM z, Xen)
- SC//Platform
- Huawei FusionCompute
- Kubernetes (deployment-level protection for Persistent Volumes)
- Red Hat OpenShift (deployment-level protection for Persistent Volumes)
- Proxmox VE
- Amazon EC2
- Google Cloud Platform / Google Computer Engine
- Azure Cloud
- Microsoft 365
- remote file system (including NAS file shares)
- Ceph RBD (with snapshot difference support)
- Nutanix Files (with Changed-File Tracking)
- Nutanix Volume Groups (with Changed-Region Tracking)
- the generic backup mechanism for the custom backup processes
- templates for commonly used applications
- Continuous Data Protection for the Windows operating system
- Snapshot Management (Copy Data Management)
- Snapshot consistent technology (quiesced/application-consistent snapshots or filesystem freeze)
- Pre/post snapshot remote command execution on VM to enable operations such as database quiesce
- Change Block Tracking (CBT) and Change file tracking (CFT) for faster incremental backups
- VM disks exclusion option
- Hyper-V direct transfer to the DataDomain (DD Boost API)
- Backup schedules
- Backup SLAs:
- VM automatic policy assignment based on regular expressions and tags
- backup job prioritization
- multiple policy rules (with different scheduling and backup destinations) for the same protected object
- Multi-node architecture:
- scalability
- automatic task load balancing
- suitable for geographically distributed environments
- Built-in Storware Backup & Recovery database backup
- File-level restore using mountable backups
- directly via a web browser
- transfer to the remote host over SSH and WinRM
- Backup mount - RAW disks shareable over iSCSI (for direct block-access to your backup data)
- Recovery plans for automated Disaster Recovery
- on-demand restore of multiple instances
- automated schedules for recovery testing
- Customizable networking and disk layout during a restore
- Instant restore
- Hyper-V
- oVirt/RHV/OLVM instant restore
- VMware instant restore
- Individual disk recovery
- File-based:
- A synthetic backup provider using XFS, NFS 4.2, or Dell Data Domain Virtual Synthetic Full (DD Boost API)
- Any mounted file system (local or remote, especially GlusterFS for replication, CephFS, NFS, SMB, and many more)
- Dell EMC Data Domain (BoostFS integration)
- Rubrik Managed Volumes
- Catalogic vStor
- Object Storage:
- Amazon S3 (with Amazon Glacier as a 2nd tier archive storage),
- S3-compliant storage (IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Scality RING)
- Google Cloud Storage
- Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
- OpenStack Swift
- Enterprise-grade backup providers:
- IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM)
- Dell EMC Networker
- Dell EMC Avamar
- Veritas Netbackup
- MicroFocus Data Protector
- Tapes
- Built-in data deduplication with Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO)
- Backup Copy - secondary backup destination to store data in more than one location
- Pre/post backup destination access command execution to execute custom operations on external storage providers such as replication
- Role-based access control (RBAC) for administrative accounts
- Audit-log for administrative actions
- Customizable logging configuration for external SIEM support
- Data-at-rest encryption for file system backup destination
- Ransomware protection
- Immutable Backup (XFS-based backup destination) that protects backup data from being encrypted by ransomware
- Air-Gap Data Protection with:
- Rubrik Managed Volumes
- Catalogic vStor
- isoLayer - using remote Red Hat linux based host and NFS
- Web-based (HTML5) central management portal
- Advanced reporting
- administrative portal
- e-mail
- Event notifications using e-mail, Slack, or custom API call
- Command Line Interface (CLI_ for advanced administrators
- Open API for 3rd party software integration (REST API)
- LDAP authentication
- OpenStack Horizon plugin
- oVirt/RHV/OLVM console integration
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