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Backup and Recovery

Backup and Recovery is a managed service for File and folder backup & Database servers (such as MS SQL Server) in VMware and VPC environments running on IBM Cloud.

  • Date of last update: 10/21/2025
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Summary

Backup and Recovery is a managed backup service for File and folder & Database servers (such as MS SQL Server) in VMware and VPC environments running on IBM Cloud. This service lets you define backup schedules to routinely protect data sources using a secure, agent-based, application-consistent backup service. Backup infrastructure is managed by IBM.

Features and capabilities

Scheduled backups

Customize backup plans to run at daily, weekly or custom intervals.

Policy-based backup

Use policies to define how and when the objects and files in a source are protected based on your use case. Define parameters such as the data to be protected, backup frequency, and how long to retain the backup copy.

Security

Take advantage of granular role-based access control to stop unauthorized actors from modifying or deleting data.

Application-consistent backup

Capture backups of your application data in a consistent state, allowing for clean restoration to a specific point in time without data corruption or loss.

Estimating Service cost

When using the Backup and Recovery service, you are charged for the 'gigabyte hours' of storage used. This is the number of gigabytes stored per hour of usage in the service.

To estimate a monthly cost, use the following calculation:
Number of gigabytes used × gigabyte hours metric × 730 (average number of hours in a month)

Note: Gigabytes used in the formula above must take in to account the total gigabytes backed up from all source servers using the service. In addition both the number of full backups and incremental backups of data that has changed will affect the final gigabytes used value.

As an example if you have:
A server with 1,000GB of used storage
A backup policy taking 1 full backup per week and an incremental backup per day.
A daily change rate (how much data changes on the server) of 10%

For gigabytes used:
1,000GB x 4 (weeks in the month) = 4,000GB
100GB (change rate) x 30 (days in month) = 3,000GB
Total = 7,000 gigabytes used.

Example monthly charge:
7,000 (GB used) x $0.00013 (per gigabyte hour) x 730 (hours in month) = $664.30

This can also be done within the IBM Cloud estimator. Take the number of GB used and multiply it by 730. Enter the output into the field labelled 'Gigabyte Hour', this will allow different currencies and locations to be estimated.

Getting support


If you're experiencing issues with this product, go to the IBM Cloud Support Center and navigate to creating a case. Use the All products option to search for this product to continue creating the case or to find more information about getting support. Third party and community supported products might direct you to a support process outside of IBM Cloud.

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Backup and Recovery

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