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OpenStack Backup and Recovery

Trilio for OpenStack provides scalable, native, agentless, multi-tenant backup and recovery solutions, ensuring seamless protection of workloads with flexible storage options for dynamic cloud environments.

Integration So Seamless It Feels Like Part of OpenStack

Restore Virtual Machines with Trilio One-Click Restore

Watch the video to see the simplicity of restoring Virtual Machines and all of their associated Cinder Volumes, Network information and Metadata with a one-click restore.

Native, agentless, and scalable data protection for OpenStack

Scalable, native backup and disaster recovery for OpenStack

Trilio’s backup solution scales with OpenStack environments, handling large, multi-tenant deployments without performance degradation, ensuring protection with fast restores across dynamic cloud environments. With Trilio, you’re always sure to keep up to date with OpenStack’s latest versions.

Native and agentless full workload data protection for OpenStack

Trilio provides native, agentless, application-centric backups that capture full OpenStack workloads, including VMs, Cinder volumes, security groups, network configurations, and other metadata, ensuring seamless protection without the need for intrusive agents.

Future-proof backups without vendor lock-in

Trilio uses industry-standard formats to ensure recovery is future-proof and vendor-neutral. This allows businesses to switch backup solutions or platforms without losing access to their backups in the future, ensuring long-term data integrity and compliance.

Help end users self-service through automation

Help your business users self-service through automated backup and recovery workflows, reducing the burden on IT teams while ensuring consistent, reliable protection for applications and workloads.

File-level and full workload restore

Trilio enables granular recovery, allowing users to restore individual files or entire workloads as needed, saving time and minimizing disruption. This feature is ideal for precise recoveries and full workload restoration, ensuring flexibility in disaster recovery.

Backup on-prem or to the cloud

As a storage-agnostic solution, Trilio supports flexible storage options, allowing businesses to back up data on-premises or to the cloud. This flexibility ensures secure, scalable data protection for any infrastructure, whether private or public cloud.

Supported OpenStack Distributions

Trilio is natively installed and managed alongside other OpenStack services using the distribution’s deployment process.

Frequently Asked Questions

Trilio performs application-centric backups, meaning Trilio includes everything which is required to be able to recover your entire application

Trilio collects the following during a backup:

  • Complete Disk Volumes (Boot and Cinder) at the Block Storage Level
  • Complete Network Topology (including Subnets, Networks, Ports and capture MAC address)
  • Storage Volumes from Cinder, or directly from Ceph for very efficient backups
  • Cinder Volume Configuration, Cinder Types, Metadata
  • Security Groups and Keys
  • VMs (Single or Multiple VMs)
  • VM Metadata & Flavors (Size of VMs)
  • Boot Image and overlays

There are a multiple options to recover your workloads. 

  • Operational Recovery (on the fly)
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Test/Dev
  • New Availability Zone
  • New Clouds
  • Files/Folder-Level Restore
 
Metadata, such as changing Cinder Volume Types, changing networks, recover complete Network Topology and resizing VMs are all supported by Trilio

In general it is up to your Role-Based-Access-Control policy who gets the permission to recover workloads and applications.

Common Roles are for instance:

  • Cloud Administrators
  • Backup Administrators
  • Tenants / Project User

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OpenStack Backup and Recovery Use Cases

OpenStack Backup and Recovery

Recover any OpenStack application quickly in the event of data loss or misconfiguration. Trilio enables easy restoration of entire workloads that reflect the clouds last best-known state. Such as One-Click-Restore to entire project recovery on different clusters.

Migration

A tenant or administrator can capture an application and its data and non-disruptively migrate that exact point-in-time to another OpenStack cloud. The need to migrate OpenStack workloads can be driven by economics, security or test/dev.

Disaster Recovery

Recover any OpenStack application quickly in the event of a disaster. Trilio enables easy restoration of entire workloads that reflect the clouds last best-known state. Trilio makes OpenStack disaster recovery easy.

Network Functions Virtualization backup and recovery (NFV)

Business critical services like NFV can quickly be configured to any state, assuring the optimal quality of service. Trilio provides recovery from data damage and allows restoration of entire VNFs, selected VNFs, or individual data items using a point-in-time working copy. The platform also allows recovery from a disaster by restoring the OpenStack network topology and populating it with a working copy of the entire NFV.