Data Protection Overview

Overview

IS leverages Cohesity for our enterprise data protection solution. This utilizes both on-premises and cloud storage for backup redundancy. This service is available only to UO IT staff.

Supported Backup types

Virtual Machines

  • All VMs are backed up by default unless declined by owner.
  • This is an agentless process.
  • Non-production workloads generally should have backups disabled to reduce service costs.

Databases

  • Requires an agent.
  • Supported database types:
    • MS SQL
    • Oracle

Physical Servers

  • Requires an agent.

NAS file shares

Default Protection Job details

  • Frequency: Daily
  • Backup window: 5pm - 5am
  • Retention: 30 days
  • Primary Destination: Local Cluster
  • Secondary Destination: Cloud Storage

Pricing

Exceptions beyond our standards can be requested with the following potential costs outlined below:

  • $231/TiB/year ($0.019/GiB/month)
  • Annual billing based on allocated capacity on July 1st
  • Minimum allocation: 1 TiB per protection group
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