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IBM Cloud Backup

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description IBM Cloud Backup Overview

IBM Cloud Backup integrates with Zerto to provide automated, offsite data protection and disaster recovery for virtual workloads, ensuring business continuity through replication and rapid restoration capabilities within the cloud environment.

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What is IBM Cloud Backup used for?

IBM Cloud Backup is intended to protect workloads by keeping backup or replicated data off site. The catalog description specifically connects it with Zerto for virtual-machine disaster recovery and restoration.

How does IBM Cloud Backup relate to Zerto?

Zerto provides replication and recovery orchestration for virtual workloads, while IBM Cloud Backup is the cloud backup service named in the catalog entry. The exact integration depends on the IBM service configuration and the protected environment.

Can IBM Cloud Backup restore a failed virtual machine?

Its disaster-recovery use case is to support restoration of protected virtual workloads after an outage. Recovery time and recovery-point results depend on replication settings, network capacity, and the selected IBM Cloud environment.

Is IBM Cloud Backup the same product as IBM Spectrum Protect?

No. IBM Cloud Backup and IBM Spectrum Protect are different IBM data-protection offerings with different histories and deployment models. The item here is described around Zerto-based virtual-workload protection.

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