Reliable and straight
forward disk storage backup
Disk storage is practical for mission-critical systems and compliance reasons, providing low latency and high throughput. Zmanda's disk storage technology ensures disaster recovery is simple, secure, and reliable. Whether you need full, incremental, or differential backups, Zmanda Pro is compatible with various servers and operating systems for increased efficiency.
Reduce downtime with this easy-to-use storage solution and explore more benefits of disk storage backups.
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Disk storage technologies
We designed Zmanda to ensure backup runs never impact system performance. It runs quietly in the background enabling employees to focus on work that matters most to them. Meeting disaster recovery objectives with Zmanda's disk backup storage technologies is straightforward, preventing massive downtimes and hurting the brand reputation.
Simplified scaling
Zmanda supports multiple holding disks, allowing backup images from different OS clients to be routed to configured holding disks. It also provides better scalability by providing an easy mechanism for load balancing. Load balancing prevents disk bottlenecking and allows data to be backed up evenly. As performance is enhanced, backup and recovery time increases, and data is better protected against threats.
As data volumes exceed in scale, the demand for backups increases. Zmanda provides a simplified scaling solution to meet this demand through increased operational throughput by adding more controllers and holding disks. This allows businesses to manage the expanding storage requirements with improved continuity. Data landscapes evolve as businesses grow, and Zmanda's scaling capabilities can future-proof this eventuality.
Zmanda optimizes resource use across different backup mediums. It is key to ensuring effective resource applications that reduce waste. Businesses reduce excessive capital expenditures by increasing their backup capabilities and adding disks and controllers incrementally. This cost-effective solution is one reason many users prefer Zmanda.
Switch to disks for faster recovery
Given their recovery speed, more and more system administrators are using disks. Thus, in Zmanda, you can configure backup to disks and tapes similarly, eliminating the need to learn two different storage methods. This promotes simplified management as disk and tape backups are configured for a unified and streamlined backup process. This single management capability allows users to access and manage data on disk and tape for quick recovery times.
Users can leverage their strengths by using disks and tapes. Disks allow them to access recovered data immediately, while tapes are beneficial for archival storage. Disks are still preferred for their flexibility and ability to handle mass data volumes that can be accessed swiftly after recovery. Businesses optimize storage investment by using disks for high-frequency backups, lowering administrative overheads that help IT departments save costs.
Since Zmanda uses industry-standard disaster recovery process formats such as zip, tar, and star, our software is a versatile solution that meets numerous backup storage needs.
Workloads Zmanda protects, including disk
How disk backups benefit you
Scale-up without worries
Start small and grow efficiently without disruptive upgrades with a pay-as-you-go subscription.
Client-side deduplication
Exclude redundant copies of data from your backups creating bandwidth and storage space efficiency.
Real-time optimization
Zmanda scheduler optimizes backup runs across multiple clients to use network and hardware resources as efficiently as possible.
Hybrid cloud backups
Seamlessly integrate with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and many more cloud platforms.
Vaulting
Easily assign legacy tapes for vaulting purposes aiding in compliance and cost-benefit reasons.
Cross-platform restore
You can restore data from a backup to a host with a different operating system, simplifying the disaster recovery process.
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Zmanda has spent time helping with any bugs, explaining errors, and adding necessary features so we can continue to transition from our old backup software to Zmanda Enterprise.
Their effort has helped to keep our backups rolling!
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FAQs
This Windows storage management tool creates storage pools that are virtual data drives combining several physical drives. This creates resilient storage spaces in the form of virtual disks. Since Windows supports different file systems like NTFS and FAT, the file system management aspect allows disks to be formatted with numerous compatible files.
The automated disk cleanup function frees up disk space by removing harmful, unnecessary, and unwanted files to optimize storage and performance. It also empties the Recycle Bin and deletes temporary OneDrive files for added efficiency. The Windows Disk Defragmenter feature rearranges fragmented drive data to improve the disk's reading speeds.
The Windows disk storage management system seamlessly integrates with Zmanda's disk storage technology for a scalable, easy, and reliable data protection solution.
- Disks are read from any point, making finding and restoring specific backed-up data easier.
- Data can be split and copied across disks for versatility, flexibility, and continuity.
- Disk storage allows data deduplication, defragmentation, replication, and grooming.
- Data disks are more resilient and reliable than tape storage, although new technology has increased legacy tape protection measures.
- Various disk types, such as standard SSD, spinning disks, and NVME, promote storage versatility and allow cloud-based storage access.
- The backup window (the total time to execute backups) can be reduced.
- Files can be conveniently restored directly from the disk, speeding the restore process.
- The disk can be locally attached, NAS, or SAN. It must be accessible from the Zmanda server.
Zmanda allows you to use disk storage as backup media. Configuring, initiating, and verifying a backup will complete the backup cycle in less time than it takes for a pizza to be delivered! The basic Zmanda setup consists of a Zmanda server, the Zmanda client or clients to be backed up, and the backup storage media, such as a tape or hard disk device. An intermediate holding area for caching data is not absolutely necessary but will improve performance significantly and is considered part of a basic setup.
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