BackupChain Hyper-V Server Backup using FastNeuron's Deduplication Technology
FastNeuron integrated its delta compression deduplication technology in its product BackupChain. BackupChain is fully configurable, high performance backup software for Hyper-V virtual machines. It has been developed specifically for Hyper-V backup and runs on Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R1 / R2 (incl. Core Installations), and all other current Windows versions.
As a specialized virtual server backup solution, BackupChain offers several key features to enable data centers as well as small businesses to protect their virtual hosts efficiently:
Full Backup Integration with Hyper-V Server and Volume Shadow Copy Service
BackupChain is optimized to work with Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 and Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Service to create live virtual machine backups efficiently. BackupChain's virtual server backup strategy ensures backups are made without service interruptions and run with little impact on the server's resources. In addition, the live backups taken by BackupChain are guaranteed to be crash-consistent.
Backup Hyper-V Locally and Remotely via FTP
While many users prefer to run local backups to network drives or external USB backup or eSATA backup hard disks, BackupChain also offers intelligent FTP backups of virtual machines. BackupChain's specialized deduplication technology, a.k.a. delta compression, minimizes the daily backup load that needs to be transmitted via FTP to the bare minimum. If you decide to back up virtual machines remotely, BackupChain will only transmit each day's changes to the remote site. Thus, instead of sending 100s of GB via FTP every day, the actual bandwidth used may be less than 1GB/day, depending on the percentage of daily changes to the VM.
Backup Incremental and Differential Images of VHD and Snapshot Files
Unlike other backup software, BackupChain performs a block-level change tracking. This form of deduplication ensures only changes within files are processed and backed up. While other tools define incremental backup and differential backup as a 'file change' in terms of file date change, BackupChain scans large files to extract the actual changes that occurred since the last backup cycle. BackupChain's Delta Compression technology saves you valuable time, backup storage, and bandwidth.
Achieve the Best Compression for Your Hyper-V Virtual Machine Backups
BackupChain's Delta Compression technology distributes the backup load automatically to all CPUs (this can be switched off if preferred); thus, the system achieves good compression rates and strikes a balance between hardware resource usage and backup time. Your backups can be encrypted with AES-256 FIPS Encryption standards as well, to protect your data from intruders and data theft.
High-Performance, Simultaneous Backup Scheduling
BackupChain comes with a high-performance, flexible scheduler that permits complex schedules and concurrent backup execution. Using this Hyper-V backup software feature you can use all resources available to finish your Hyper-V Server backups as quickly as possible.
Remote Virtual Machine Backup and Remote Restore Features
BackupChain ships with an embedded FTP server and client and allows you to back up virtual machines to remote FTP sites and to set up FTP sites on at your own site; hence, with BackupChain's FTP server you can control both sides, client and server. Virtual machines can be restored via FTP as well, which is greatly accelerated by the underlying Delta Compression technology.
BackupChain is also Compatible with VMware
In case you deployed both VMware Server and Hyper-V Server in your business, you can save on licensing costs: BackupChain is fully compatible with both virtualization platforms. BackupChain is licensed depending on the number of physical hosts, not virtual machines or virtualization platforms. Therefore, if you have one server running VMware Server as well as Hyper-V, one single license would suffice, independent of the number of VMs hosted.