Policy-based Advanced Backup Plans
GitProtect focuses on DevOps as a whole. It helps you protect not some specific platform but the entire DevOps ecosystem.
Default plan vs. advanced backup plan
GitProtect.io is a powerful solution. Default plan and advanced backup plan (created manually by the user), both, provide you with a high level of data protection. The default plan meets recommended backup requirements, like protecting an entire organization with all data included, using as a backup destination our unlimited GitProtect / Xopero Cloud storage, running backup every day at a fixed time, and keeping a single copy for three months. And all these settings (and many more) are still fully customizable. This is a fast, yet still of the chart, way to secure your entire organization.
How do you meet very specific security standards?
The answer is, by creating your own backup plan that covers your organization’s security policies in 100 percent. And that’s the advantage of switching to an advanced backup plan brings. How does this tailored approach work on a daily base? While creating a backup plan you are able to define every single step according to the data protection policy or your organization’s other security requirements:
- Back up any platform, any organization, any data, or just the whole organization with all corresponding data, which is always a recommended option.
- Or select data to back up by defining rules. This way you can include a specific set of repositories into your backup plan, and automate and fasten the plan setup process.
- Use as a backup destination our unlimited cloud storage or add your own. GitProtect is a multi-storage system, which means you can basically connect any storage you require - cloud or on-premise.
- Modify the scheduler - set the backup frequency and retention period - to fulfill your requirements in full. The final setup will vary depending on the industry you’re working in, your organization’s RTO and RPO expectations, your development pipeline, and so on. Thus, in our opinion providing you with extremely agile schedule options is critical.
- Following backup best practices to protect your DevOps data, GitProtect.io permits choose the level of encryption with the opportunity to set your own encryption key, assign as many storages as your policy requires to set replication between them, and fulfill the 3-2-1 backup rule, and much more.
Backup scheduler
While protecting your DevOps ecosystem with GitProtect you have several types of rotation schemes to choose from:
- Forever incremental which means that once you set up your backup plan only the first copy is a full one, and all the following in the chain are incremental copies. It means that only the modified part of the data (compared to the previous copy) is downloaded from the data source regarding your needs: every day or more frequently it’s up to you to decide.
- GFS (Grandfather-Father-Son) within which you have a full copy of your DevOps environment once a month, a differential copy once a week, and an incremental one every day.
- Custom is a very flexible solution. You set up a when a full copy and an incremental copy should be run - monthly, weekly, daily, or hourly.
- Basic which requires a full copy once a month by default, and an incremental copy on a daily basis.
Moreover, you may set to keep your backups by time, and by a number of copies. or infinitely to meet your business expectations.