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Introduction

CDP Backups can help you manage a node’s backup policy to save files and folders of your E2E Node and also, rolling back to a previous backup recovery point anytime. We recommend you to subscribe for CDP backup service for all your nodes, especially the servers for a production environment. CDP backups secure your data from accidental data loss or modifications along with the option of retaining data for a longer period without consuming the server’s disk space. They are helpful in projects or milestones to back up the complete data or a set of files containing important information.

How does CDP Backup work?​

Backups are created as a replica of your file system which is taken automatically at periodic intervals. Each backup recovery point contains all the data which was backed up to restore from the provisioning till the most recent data block update. This allows point-in-time to restore from any of the recovery points present in the archive. Before you enable CDP backup service, we recommend familiarizing yourself with concepts and terminologies.

Completely Secure​

The backups are created and stored in our backup servers. The connections to these are encrypted using SSL to ensure the security of the data being backed up.

Incremental in nature​

The backup server takes a complete snapshot of the entire filesystem for the first time and from the next run, it only copies over the differential Deltas (data that has changed since the last backup run) thus speeding up the backup process.

Database Backups​

It is always important to backup all your databases stored in your server.

  • The CDP for MySQL Add-On integrates Continuous Data Protection with an online hot backup (snapshot) of MySQL databases to provide fast, efficient, and safe MySQL backups.
  • MySQL add-on ensures that tables are locked and flushed before a backup operation can take place. MySQL Add-On coordinates with the point-in-time file system snapshot.
  • The only requirement for MySQL Add-On is a MySQL account with administrative privileges that is used by the Agent to flush tables with the read lock before the file system snapshot is taken and the lock must be held until the snapshot completes. Click here to check more details.

Backup Frequency​

We do have pre-configured backup plans. You can choose one which matches up your requirement.

Backup Recovery Points​

A recovery point is created as a result of data replication. The first recovery point is called an initial replica because it is performed only one time. In simple words, a Recovery Point appears like a Full backup as each Recovery Point only contains block-level Deltas or changes since the last Synchronization (recovery point creation). In other words, a Recovery Point is a point-in-time backup of the node (or selected files/folders on devices).

Each recovery point is all-inclusive i.e it contains all the data and can be used for a restore independently.

Backup Recovery Points Retention Policy​

The Recovery Point Retention policy is default defined and it is applicable for each server for which backup service is enabled. The retention policy will be set as per the backup schedule chosen which will define at which recovery point the backups will be merged and retained.

Note

After exceeding the defined recovery/archive point number, the old Archive Points will subsequently be replaced by the new ones.

Archive Backup Recovery Point​

Archive backups are considered a best practice to protect your data from natural disasters, malware, and malicious acts. Even enterprises often need to retain long-term backups for business continuity, compliance, customer contracts, and e-Discovery.

An Archive Point is a snapshot of a backup recovery point that is stored in another location (object storage-bucket) for long-term data storage to provide further integrity and safe-keeping of data. It will significantly reduce costs while retaining a snapshot of backup recovery point backup for long-term availability.

With Archive, you can expand your backup policy to create and manage off-site snapshots of backup recovery points on the E2E Object storage. Archive backup policy can be configured to create a snapshot on a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule in accordance with your retention requirements. According to these configurations, an Archive is created once the policy runs.

  • Daily, the last recovery point of the day is archived.
  • Weekly, the last recovery point of the week is archived.
  • Monthly, the last recovery point of the month is archived.

So your backup schedule must be at least daily to archive daily recovery points. You need to adjust the retention policy because the retention policy automatically decides on how many numbers of backup recovery points needed to retain and when to merge old recovery points and archived recovery points.

Restore functionality​

The backup restore rates are inversely proportional to the load on your system. In an ideal environment, Our backup systems can restore at an avg rate of 20 MB/s which translates to 65-70 GB per hour. However, the actual rates may vary and we have seen better speeds than this. The way to request a rollback/restore is to select the files/folders from the recovery points and initiate the restore process.

Plans & Prices​

Please check here for our Backups pricing.