For an organization, the data it generates and stores over time plays an important role in the proper functioning of the business. However, today there are multiple factors that can cause data loss, for example, cyber-attacks, hardware failures, and natural disasters can pose a threat to data, so effective backup and recovery solutions are essential to avoid data loss, downtime, and disruption to business operations.
Why Choose AOMEI Cyber Backup for Enterprise Backup and Recovery
AOMEI Cyber Backup is a free backup tool and professional enterprise backup and recovery software that provides multiple backup types:
▶ Virtual Machine Backup: For organizations using virtual environments, AOMEI Cyber Backup provides backup of virtual machines in VMware and Hyper-V.
▶ System Backup: Helps you protect your entire operating system and ensure fast data recovery even after a system crash.
▶ File-level Backup: You can choose to back up specific files or folders for a more granular backup.
▶ Disk Backup: Backup of disks and partitions ensures that no data is missed.
▶ Cloud Backup: It backs up data to the cloud, providing off-site protection and disaster recovery.
It can automatically start backup tasks based on user-set time periods without the need to repeat manual operations. It also provides the flexibility to back up data to external USB devices, network shared files, or the cloud, which facilitates unified management and access to data in a multi-device network environment for businesses or families.
In addition to some of the features mentioned above, AOMEI Cyber Backup offers you the following features:
✦ User-Friendly Backup: Equipped with an intuitive web console for backup and restore of all virtual machines. Backup administrators can easily handle data protection jogs without a long learning curve.
✦ Agentless Backup: Creates image-based backups of entire virtual machines without the need to install an agent on each virtual machine, increasing the efficiency of the backup deployment process.
✦ Comprehensive Compatibility: It is compatible with various Windows operating systems such as Windows 11, 10, 8, and 7.
✦ Centralized Backup: It integrates with vCenter Server, making it easy to add all virtual machines for centralized backup management.
Simple Steps to Backup and Recovery
You can choose the method as well as the type of backup according to your needs. The following takes VMware ESXi VM backup as an example.
Step 1. Bind Devices
Log in to the AOMEI Cyber Backup web client, navigate to Source Device > VMware > + Add VMware Device to add vCenter or Standalone ESXi host as the source device. Enter Device Information and User Information, then click Confirm.
Step 2. Create Backup Tasks
Navigate to Backup Type > + Create New Task, and select the Backup Type (VMware ESXi Backup, Hyper-V Backup, Microsoft SQL Backup, Disk Backup, Partition Backup, and System Backup), here we take VMware ESXi Backup as the Backup Type.
- Device: Select the VMs on the host you want to backup.
- Target: You can select to local path, or to a network path. Used paths will be saved in Favorite Storage for handy selection.
- Archive: You can enable archiving backup versions to Amazon S3, and select to choose the added Amazon S3.
- Schedule: You can choose to perform a full, differential, or incremental scheduled backup, and automate execution according to the frequency you specified.
Step 3. Start Backup
Click Start Backup and select Add the schedule and start backup now, or Add the schedule only.
Step 4. Perform Recovery
Navigate to Backup Task to find the task you want to recover. Click … > Restore. Select to Restore to original location, and click Start Restore.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Yes, AOMEI Cyber Backup offers free and upgraded versions. While the free version covers most of the VM backup needs, you can also upgrade to enjoy more features, like batch VM backup, backup cleanup, and restore to new location.
Yes, VMs under Hyper-V host A can be recovered under Hyper-V host B. VMs under ESXi host A can be recovered under ESXi host B. However, VMs under Hyper-V hosts cannot be recovered under ESXi hosts, which are different platforms and do not support cross-platform recovery operations.
Conclusion
If you are looking for an enterprise backup and recovery tool, you may want to try AOMEI Cyber Backup, which can provide you with many types of backups as well as backup and recovery solutions.