SVZcloud Backup Basic

SVZCloud Backup provides agentless backup for Yandex Cloud VMs and disks. It helps save user data for fast recovery in the event of a crash or ransomware attack.

SVZCloud Backup uses the API and native Yandex Cloud tools for fast and reliable VM backup and recovery. It is agentless and can work with any OS.

Benefits

• Setting up user roles to regulate access.
• Configuring scheduled backup operations based on client policies.
• Calculating approximate backup storage costs per month.
• Restoring a disk or VM to their original state with data and configuration intact.
• Ensuring data integrity when performing hot backup of guest Windows-based apps.
• Restoring an individual file or directory from a disk or VM backup.
• Setting up administrator notifications of backup results by email.
• Running basic operations with VMs both manually and on schedule.
• Running scripts on a guest OS before and after a backup to ensure data consistency for running applications.
• Support for any S3-compatible object storages to store backups.
• More reliable VM and disk backups through keeping them on an external storage.
• Option to select an object storage class in Yandex Cloud to save on the backup storage cost.
• VSS support to ensure data consistency of applications running on MS Windows Server VMs.

Updates to the current version
*Flexible management of backup creation and restoration to any cloud environments and directories available in Yandex Cloud

There are two SVZCloud Backup versions available in Yandex Cloud Marketplace: Basic for backups of up to 10 VMs, and Enterprise, for up to 50 VMs. The version for backing up more than 50 VMs may be provided upon request.

1. Create service account with roles: storage.editor, compute.editor, vpc.publicAdmin, vpc.user, vpc.securityGroups.user on a catalog and resource-manager.clouds.member and quota-manager.viewer on a cloud.
   Save its ID.
2. Create an authorized key for the service account. Save the ID and private key.
3. Get an SSH key pair to connect to a virtual machine (VM).
4. Create a VM from a public image:

• Under Image/boot disk selection, go to the Cloud Marketplace tab and select SVZCloud Backup Basic.
• Under Disks and file storage, enter 20 GB as your disk size.
• Under Computing resources, specify:
  • vCPU: 4
  • RAM: 8 GB
• Under Access:
  • In the Service account field, select the previously created service account.
  • Enter the username in the Login field.
  • Paste the contents of the public SSH key file in the SSH key field.

5. Open https://<VM_public_IP_address>/ in your browser.
6. Follow the installation steps via the web interface.

• Yandex Cloud VM and disk backup and recovery.

SVZsolutions
SVZsolutions provides support to SVZCloud Backup Basic users in Yandex Cloud. You can reach technical support at ybackupsupport@svzcloud.ru.

Yandex Cloud
Yandex Cloud does not provide technical support for this product. If you have any issues, please refer to the vendor’s information resources.