Soteria Cloud KB

10.40 — Data Protection

Data Protection

Workloads

  • Physical Windows, Linux and macOS systems

  • VMware vSphere/ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix, Virtuozzo, RHV and other supported virtualisation

  • Microsoft 365 and Entra ID

  • Google Workspace

  • Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, Active Directory, Oracle and other applications/databases

  • NAS, Synology, QNAP, file shares and network storage

  • AWS, Azure and other supported public-cloud workloads

  • Websites, hosting control panels and supported specialised workloads

Protection lifecycle

  • Discovery and prerequisites

  • Protection-plan design, assignment and inheritance

  • Source selection and exclusions

  • Schedule, backup window, performance and bandwidth

  • Application-aware and snapshot behaviour

  • Local, Soteria/Acronis cloud and other supported destinations

  • Retention, cleanup, deletion, immutability and orphaned archives

  • Compression, deduplication, encryption and key ownership

  • Validation, replication and recovery-point verification

  • Alerts, activities, reports and failure triage

Recovery coverage

  • File/folder and application-item recovery

  • Disk/volume and full-machine recovery

  • Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace granular recovery

  • Restore to original or alternate location

  • Bootable media and bare-metal recovery

  • Universal Restore and dissimilar hardware

  • Physical-to-virtual, virtual-to-virtual and migration scenarios

  • Large restores and physical data shipping where available

Existing SCKB guidance

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