Linux Backup and Recovery
Available with Cove Data Protection
Cove provides robust data protection for Linux servers and devices, with a hosted SaaS management platform and cloud backup storage included.
Protect data on your Linux devices
Many organizations rely on Linux, so it’s important to ensure these devices are backed up regularly and securely. Finding a single backup solution that’s compatible with Linux systems, as well as Windows devices and software like Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), helps managed services providers (MSPs) reduce administrative time and lower their cost of service.
Simple and effective backup management for Linux
Cove offers efficient, straightforward backup and recovery management from a unified, multi-tenant SaaS interface that saves valuable staff time. With Cove, you can gain broad visibility across all your customers, and all their devices, with quick drill-down for troubleshooting as needed. Cove is also compatible with your virtual environments, including Hyper-V and VMware, and our structure is designed for cloud-first backup from the local network, keeping ransomware out-of-reach by default.
Protect MySQL databases
Many organizations that choose Linux also rely on open-source databases like MySQL. With Cove Data Protection, your backups can also include MySQL protection. In addition to the potential for natural disaster, hardware failure, or malware, it’s important to have MySQL backups prior to upgrading any database elements. Should an installation finish improperly, it’s key to have backups that can quickly be restored to another system to minimize operational downtime while the issue gets resolved.
Backups you can count on
Cove Data Protection is built on a cloud-first architecture with end-to-end AES 256-bit encryption of backups in transit and at rest. Backup storage in our private cloud is included in your price, and with 30 data centers around the world, you can keep your backups in region and recovery ready.
Cove’s cloud-first data protection can transform your servers, work stations and Microsoft 365 management
Learn more about Linux Backup
What is a backup solution for Linux?
What is a backup solution for Linux?
Backup solutions for Linux are applications that give MSPs and in-house IT teams the ability to initiate, manage, and monitor the progress and status of backups for Linux servers and devices.
Running regular backups is important for data protection and should extend to a range of devices and systems, including end user workstations, MySQL databases, Linux servers, and Windows servers. The right software can help MSPs keep backups current for all relevant devices and data, across a variety of customers, from small businesses to enterprises.
An effectively designed backup solution for Linux provides granular control for a more efficient process. Cove Data Protection, for instance, uses a proprietary TrueDelta architecture that improves efficiency vs. traditional image-based backup tools. Because incremental backups are up to 60x smaller, you can back up more often.
This process can run in reverse too, efficiently restoring changed data at a granular level, resulting in faster, more efficient recovery operations.
How do I back up a Linux server?
How do I back up a Linux server?
For backing up a Linux server, you should consider the location and frequency of backups.
Data security experts will often recommend retaining one copy of your Linux server data in an off-site location, out of the reach of malware that may be on the local network. This recommendation is good practice regardless of the size of the business, as it builds in a safeguard that helps to prevent any one critical disaster from destroying or corrupting your customers’ data.
Cove Data Protection stores primary backup copies in our purpose-built private cloud by default, with the option to keep a local copy. Cloud storage is included in the price, and with 30 data centers around the world, you can keep data in region. Each of the centers meets certain data security regulations, including ISO 27001, ISO 9001, and others.
Backup updates should occur regularly. Best practices suggest you should create data backups at a rate at which data is changed—this could mean hourly, daily, or weekly cycles. With Cove, you can customize backup cycles to fit timelines that work for your customers, as frequently as every 15 minutes. And because it is built to only back up changed data at a very granular level, Cove uses network bandwidth resources more efficiently, allowing for more frequent direct-to-cloud backups.
Why is Linux backup software important?
Why is Linux backup software important?
Backup software for Linux is important in part because it can be more difficult to find backup software that is compatible with both Windows and Linux systems, allowing you to manage both from a single dashboard. Many businesses can benefit from a backup platform compatible with Linux.
However, backup solutions for Linux also offer the same benefits as any robust data protection product. Businesses suffer when they lose data. For instance, MSPs whose customers manage sensitive information, like credit card information or health data, could experience disaster if such information was lost, corrupted, or stolen, without a backup in place.
Linux backup solutions are also critical for disaster recovery. If malware attacks, if a Linux server or workstation crashes, or the hardware fails, it’s important the business be able to quickly restore that information from the backup.