Enterprise Server Backup & Bare-Metal DRaaS
A single unmitigated server outage can cost millions in lost revenue, broken customer trust, and regulatory penalties. ServerThings engineers comprehensive server backup architectures across physical bare metal, virtual hypervisors (VMware, Proxmox, Hyper-V), and hybrid clouds—combining Changed Block Tracking (CBT), immutable WORM vaults, and instant cloud virtualization.
Why Choose ServerThings Server Backup Solutions?
Enterprise workloads cannot afford sluggish, unreliable legacy file streaming. We deliver hardware-integrated, application-aware server backup engineered for high concurrency, instant disaster recovery, and absolute compliance.
Bare-Metal Restore (BMR) & Instant Boot
Recover entire physical servers from the ground up without installing operating systems, device drivers, or software stacks first. Restore directly to dissimilar physical hardware or spin up backup images instantly inside our cloud within minutes.
- Sub-15 minute RTO with instant VM boot directly from backup storage
- Dissimilar hardware driver injection for physical server recovery
- Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) and Virtual-to-Cloud (V2C) migration paths
Multi-Hypervisor & OS Fleet Support
Standardize data protection across complex multi-cloud and on-premises environments. We provide native agentless hypervisor snapshots and lightweight OS-level agents across all modern enterprise distributions.
- Agentless backup for VMware vSphere/ESXi, Proxmox VE & Hyper-V
- Full bare-metal support for RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, Rocky Linux & Windows Server
- Direct integration with ServerMango cloud nodes and MangoPanel instances
Application-Consistent Database Snapshots
Avoid database corruption and uncommitted write crashes. Our solution coordinates with database engines to flush transaction buffers, truncate archive logs, and capture completely consistent states while servers stay online.
- Deep VSS and native engine hooks for MS SQL Server, Oracle & SAP HANA
- Lock-free consistent snapshots for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB & MongoDB
- Granular point-in-time recovery down to the exact second or transaction ID
Flexible Topologies: Full, Incremental & Synthetic
Choose the optimal backup topology for your bandwidth and recovery requirements. Using Changed Block Tracking (CBT), our engine streams only modified block deltas, synthesizing daily full backups on our high-speed NVMe storage.
- Full, Incremental, Differential, and Synthetic Full backup pipelines
- Changed Block Tracking (CBT) reduces server CPU and disk I/O overhead to <2%
- Continuous data replication for zero-impact business hours protection
Air-Gapped Ransomware & WORM Vaults
Sophisticated ransomware specifically hunts and destroys backup repositories. ServerThings stores server snapshots in air-gapped, S3-compliant Object Lock vaults with strict WORM (Write Once, Read Many) immutability.
- Cryptographic immutability that cannot be deleted even by root credentials
- Isolated secondary backup copies replicated across separate network DMZs
- Integrated anomaly detection alerts on sudden mass file modifications
Granular Object & File-Level Restore
You don’t need to restore an entire 2 TB virtual machine image just to recover a deleted configuration file or database table. Mount any backup image directly and extract individual objects in seconds.
- Granular restore of single SQL database tables, stored procedures, or rows
- Instant extraction of single Linux/Windows files, directories, and permissions
- Active Directory object resurrection including user accounts and GPO records
3-2-1-1 Geographic Disaster Recovery
We enforce the industry’s gold standard in data resilience: 3 copies of your server data, on 2 separate storage media, 1 offsite copy at our secondary Tier III facility in Mumbai, and 1 immutable air-gapped vault copy.
- Multi-region geo-replication between Delhi/NCR and Mumbai data centers
- Dedicated low-latency metro dark fiber interconnects for replication
- RBI, SEBI, and ISO/IEC 27001 data sovereignty compliance guaranteed
Turnkey Setup, Automated Drills & 24/7 SRE
A backup that has never been tested is not a real backup. Our Delhi SRE engineering team handles end-to-end agent rollout, daily verification of backup jobs, and automated simulated disaster recovery rehearsals.
- White-glove agent deployment and policy tuning by senior SRE architects
- Automated nightly boot-verification testing with screenshot proof
- 24/7/365 proactive monitoring with 15-minute emergency failover SLA
How Changed Block Tracking (CBT) & DRaaS Operate
Engineered to eliminate production server I/O bottlenecks while ensuring sub-second consistency and near-instantaneous cloud failover.
Changed Block Tracking & Synthetic Fulls
Instead of scanning multi-terabyte file trees, our kernel-level filter tracks only modified disk sectors since the last snapshot. The engine transmits tiny block deltas across an encrypted tunnel.
- <2% production CPU and disk I/O overhead during live backups
- Synthetic full backups assembled on storage fabric without touching server
- Bandwidth optimization with inline LZ4 compression and deduplication
Warm Standby & Instant Cloud Failover
In the event of hardware destruction or facility catastrophe, your servers are instantly virtualized on pre-allocated ServerThings compute nodes with public IP failover and BGP route redirection.
- Sub-15 minute production failover with pre-configured network VLANs
- Automated periodic non-disruptive DR failover testing
- Seamless failback to primary site once physical infrastructure recovers
Server Backup & DRaaS Hosting Plans
Predictable monthly subscriptions with zero egress fees, unlimited restore bandwidth, and white-glove SRE installation included.
Single Server Pro
Dedicated protection for standalone physical Linux/Windows servers and database instances.
Enterprise Node
High-capacity backup with bare-metal restore (BMR), instant boot virtualization, and immutable storage.
Hypervisor Cluster
Agentless cluster protection for multi-host VMware vSphere, Proxmox VE, and Microsoft Hyper-V environments.
Mission-Critical DRaaS
Custom enterprise disaster recovery with pre-allocated warm compute nodes, continuous replication, and 15-min RTO.
Frequently Asked Questions
Technical answers regarding bare-metal recovery, changed block tracking, live database backups, and simulated DR drills.
In traditional backup methods, restoring to a different server model causes boot loops due to missing disk controller and chipset drivers. ServerThings Bare-Metal Restore boots the target hardware using a lightweight recovery environment (WinPE or Linux live kernel), streams the full system volume block-by-block, and injects the appropriate hardware drivers automatically before the first system restart. You can restore an old Dell PowerEdge backup directly onto a brand-new Supermicro AMD EPYC server seamlessly.
No. Our Changed Block Tracking (CBT) engine monitors sector changes at the filesystem driver or hypervisor level without traversing file directories. Because only changed blocks are read and transferred, backup windows shrink from hours to seconds, and production CPU and disk I/O overhead remains below 2%. For live databases, transaction buffers are flushed instantaneously via VSS or native database APIs with zero lockups.
Backup repositories are decoupled from standard operating system network shares (SMB/NFS) and written to an air-gapped Ceph object storage cluster configured with S3 Object Lock (WORM - Write Once, Read Many). Once written, retention policies are enforced at the hardware storage layer. Even if an attacker gains root or domain administrator privileges on the production server, they cannot delete, modify, or encrypt historical backup blocks.
Our backup service is completely managed. Senior ServerThings SRE architects handle the initial backup plan design, agent or agentless hypervisor connector setup, bandwidth throttling policies, and database API integrations. We monitor every job 24/7/365, automatically investigate and resolve backup failures, perform test restores, and provide direct 24/7 phone support with a 15-minute response SLA.
Yes. 100% of your server data remains strictly within Indian territory across our Tier III facilities in Delhi/NCR (Okhla) and Mumbai. We provide signed compliance certificates validating data localization for RBI, SEBI, and the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023. All data is encrypted with AES-256 both in flight (TLS 1.3) and at rest.
Protect Your Production Servers Today
Connect directly with our senior disaster recovery architects to size storage requirements, design a 3-2-1-1 backup strategy, or initiate an urgent bare-metal recovery proof-of-concept.