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Backup and Recovery for Windows workloads on AWS
Rich Uhl
Enterprise Solutions Architect
Terminology Archiving
Long term retention of data, generally for legal, compliance or regulatory requirements. Details often determined by business or industry.
Disaster Recovery Disaster Recovery (DR) enables the recovery or continuation of vital technology infrastructure and systems following a natural or human-induced disaster.
Backup and Restore Backup, or the process of backing up, refers to the copying and archiving of computer data to restore the original after a data loss event.
History of backup and recovery
• Poor funding for backup systems • Organizational dynamics
• No clear ownership • Focused on backup not recovery
• Bad experiences determine changes • Backup systems change slowly
• Always try to work with existing platforms • Equipment lifecycle
• Data lifecycle is longer than equipment lifecycle
No one cares about backups. Everyone cares about recovery.
Operating System
Backup Agent
Data
Backup Master
Backup Database
Media Server Media
Hypervisor
Backup Agent
Guest Guest Guest
Network
Off Site
Configuration & Metadata
Data
Data
Data
Data Center backup software platform
Remote and branch office backups
Clients
Field Office Internet
Home Office Client
Hotel Client
Airport Client
Coffee Shop Client Data Center
Amazon WorkSpaces
Amazon WorkDocs
Backup and recovery challenges • Data growth spiraling out of control • Challenges with backup windows • Technology, process and people don’t scale • Prediction of storage needs • Bandwidth / WAN constraints for remote and branch offices • RPOs / RTOs can be difficult to achieve • Backup and archive HW + SW is expensive • Tape is unreliable, cumbersome, error prone, with low durability • Off-site vaulting
Days or Weeks
Value of backups on AWS
Metered usage: Pay as you go
No capital investment No commitment
No risky capacity planning
Avoid Opex and risks of physical media
handling
Control your geographic locality for
performance and compliance
11 Regions
28 Availability Zones
Select the regions that meets you business needs
AWS global infrastructure
Backup and restore service mapping
EBS Snapshot
Virtual Tape Library
S3 Bucket
Volume Snapshot
Tape Library
Your Data Centers
Online Repository
S3 Bucket
Glacier archive
S3 region replicas
AWS Marketplace 3rd Party
Regional Archives
Offline Tape Media
Online Tape Media
Storage and archive options
Simple Storage Service (S3) Highly scalable object storage
Up to 5 TB in size 99.999999999% durability
Elas4c Block Store (EBS) High-performance block storage
Up to 16 TB in size Mount as drives with snapshot
functionality
Amazon Glacier Long-‐term object archive
Extremely low cost per gigabyte 99.999999999% durability
Very fast ‘instance’ disks
Fast Web object storage
Slow, Rare access
Built-in redundancy designed for
99.999999999% durability
Store backups in Amazon S3
Internet-scale storage grow without
limits
Benefit from AWS’s massive security
investments
Low price per GB per month No commitment No up-front cost
Long term backup retention in Glacier
Stop managing physical media
Amazon Glacier has lower cost than
Amazon S3 with the same durability
Amazon Glacier is optimized for
infrequent retrieval
Data transfer mechanisms
AWS Direct Connect Dedicated connectivity
to AWS Edge Locations
AWS Import/Export Data transfer using portable disk drives
Transfer data in a secure SSL tunnel
over the public Internet
S3 and Glacier Backup Master
Backup Database
Media Server
Media
Amazon S3
WAN
Bou
ndar
y
Amazon Glacier
or
Client
Client
HTTPS
HTTPS
HTTPS
AWS Storage Gateway
Backup Master
Backup Database
Media Server
Media
Amazon S3
AWS Storage Gateway
cached
volume
virtual tape library
VTL
WAN
Bou
ndar
y
Caching disk
Amazon Glacier
iSCSI
Hybrid cloud backup
VPC – Datacenter #4
Single GUI for Management
Branch office backup to cloud
Considerations: • Backup software • Storage / caching gateway • WAN or internet • Deduplication • Compression • Encryption • WAN acceleration
Core data center backup to cloud
Considerations: • Backup software • Storage / caching gateway • DirectConnect or internet • Telco burst models • Deduplication • Compression • Encryption • WAN acceleration
Cloud backup inside AWS Applications running on EC2 backing up to S3 / Glacier
Considerations: • Backup software • Encryption • Deduplication • Compression • Native S3 and Glacier
integration • AMI backup appliance
• AMI = Golden Master • EBS snapshot + scripting
Recovery Solutions
Common Recovery Architectures
Backup and
restore Pilot light
Warm standby
Multi-site
Backup and restore (into AWS)
On-site infrastructure
S3 Bucket
Over the Internet
AWS Import/Export & AWS Storage
Gateway
AWS region
Corporate data center
Using AWS Direct
Connect
Availability Zone
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3 bucket
Backup and
restore
Pilot light architecture
Pilot light
www.example.com
Data Mirroring/ Replication
Not Running
Database
Server
Data Volume
Corporate data center
Web
Application Server
Master Database Server
Pilot light architecture – Failover
Pilot light
Not Running
Database Server
Data Volume
Corporate data center
Web
Application Server
Master Database Server
www.example.com
Application Server
Web Server Server
Warm standby architecture
Warm standby
Data Mirroring/ Replication
Application Data
Source Cut Over
Elastic Load
Balancer
Active Production
Amazon Route 53
www.example.com
Corporate data center
Data Volume
Application Server
Slave Database Server
Web
AWS region
Web
Application Server
Master Database Server
Non Production Traffic
Warm standby architecture – Failover
Warm standby Elastic
Load Balancer
Active Production
Amazon Route 53
www.example.com
Corporate data center
Data Volume
Application Server
Slave Database Server
Web
AWS region
Web
Application Server
Master Database Server
Windows OS backup and recovery
• System backup to a dedicated EBS volume • Periodic snapshots of EBS volumes
• Leverage AMI’s for everything you can • OS snapshot -> EBS snapshot via PowerShell
• VSSAdmin • Code as recovery • VM Import as a backup of an existing VM • AWS CLI and developer tools • AWS Management Portal for vCenter • AWS Systems Manager for Microsoft System Center VMM
Microsoft Active Directory
• AWS Directory Service • AD Connector • Simple AD
• Native directory options • Connect your Microsoft Active Directory to AWS cloud • Extend you AD into AWS
• Integrate with your existing RADIUS-based MFA infrastructure
• AD in multiple AZ’s • Refer to AWS AD whitepaper
Microsoft SQL Server
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server • Fully managed backups
• EBS volume with SQL dumps • Snapshot of EBS volumes
• Import your data • Import & Export wizard • Bulk copy • 3rd party and marketplace offerings
Partner backup offerings • Symantec NetBackup & Backup Exec • Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 • Others
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Summary
• Use managed services • Leverage partner ecosystem
• Marketplace and consulting partners
• Code as a recovery mechanism • Backup only what is necessary
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