{"id":15773,"date":"2020-05-18T01:54:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T01:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/?p=15773"},"modified":"2020-05-27T00:39:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T00:39:10","slug":"disk-disk-cloud-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup","title":{"rendered":"BackupAssist ER Challenge<br\/><b>The Disk-To-Disk-To-Cloud Backup<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BackupAssist ER is a brand new backup software product for Windows machines. It features a brand new drive imaging engine, combined with cloud backup technologies, to provide a &#8220;disk to disk to cloud&#8221; backup, with many recovery options &#8211; locally or in the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recommend backup method of \u201cdisk to disk to cloud\u201d gives you backup copies both on a local disk (e.g. USB HDD, NAS)\u00a0and in the cloud (Azure, AWS).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The benefit of having both a local and&nbsp;cloud based&nbsp;copy of your backups are&nbsp;that it provides:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Fast local recoveries<\/li><li>Resilience\u00a0and redundancy\u00a0<\/li><li>Flexible recovery options\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the ER Challenge, I&#8217;m giving BackupAssist ER a test drive and taking notes of my results. The challenge is to do a full system backup, and multiple types of recoveries &#8211; all against the clock!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s dive into my challenge results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contents&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"#how-did-I-do-in-the-challenge\">How did I do&nbsp;in the challenge?&nbsp;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#my-test-setup\">My test setup&nbsp;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#under-the-hood:-disk-to-disk-to-cloud-backup\">Under the hood:&nbsp;disk to disk to cloud backup&nbsp;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#my-experiences-and-observations\">My experiences&nbsp;and observations&nbsp;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#performance-analysis\">Performance analysis&nbsp;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#azure-costs\">Azure costs&nbsp;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#conclusions\">Conclusions<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"how-did-I-do-in-the-challenge\">How did I do?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n <table style=\"border:none;\">\n  <tbody>\n   <tr>\n    <td style=\"width:50%;border:1px solid white;background:#193a66;color:white;\"><b>Task<\/b><\/td>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#193a66;color:white;\"><b>Duration<\/b><\/td>\n   <\/tr>\n   <tr>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#aed0f4;\">Hands-on with BackupAssist ER&nbsp;<br>Install, configure &amp; start the backup<\/td>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#008ECE;color:white;\">4&nbsp;min&nbsp;51&nbsp;secs<\/td>\n   <\/tr>\n   <tr>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#aed0f4;\">Waiting time&nbsp;<br>Local drive image (10 min)&nbsp;<br>Upload to cloud (2 hr 32 min)&nbsp;<\/td>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#C1E9F7;\">162 min&nbsp;<\/td>\n   <\/tr>\n   <tr>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#aed0f4;\">Total time&nbsp;<\/td>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#C1E9F7;\">166 min 51 secs&nbsp;<\/td>\n   <\/tr>\n  <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For the BackupAssist ER Challenge Leaderboard, my hands-on time is 4 minutes and 51 seconds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s the video of me doing it:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BackupAssist ER Challenge :The Disk-To-Disk-To-Cloud Backup - Done in Less Than 12 minutes\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k2L_mZl33NI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"my-test-setup\">My test setup&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Being in COVID-19 lockdown meant I was limited to the hardware available to me at home.&nbsp;Luckily&nbsp;I had&nbsp;some old hardware lying around \u2013 enough that I could do the challenge.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n <table style=\"border:none;\">\n  <tbody>\n   <tr>\n    <td style=\"width:50%;border:1px solid white;background:#193a66;color:white;\"><b>Equipment<\/b><\/td>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#193a66;color:white;\"><b>Brand \/ model <\/b><\/td>\n   <\/tr>\n   <tr>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#aed0f4;\">Computer to be backed up<\/td>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#C1E9F7;\">Microsoft Surface Pro 4 (from 2015)<br>Intel Core m3-6Y30 CPU @ 0.90GHz<br>4GB RAM. Windows 10, 64-bit OS <\/td>\n   <\/tr>\n   <tr>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#aed0f4;\">Local backup disk<\/td>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#C1E9F7;\">Intel SSD 520 Series 180GB (from 2012)<br>Connected via USB 3.0 enclosure, ADATA XPG <\/td>\n   <\/tr>\n   <tr>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#aed0f4;\">Cloud backup storage<\/td>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#C1E9F7;\">Microsoft Azure storage container (blobs) in the Australia East region.<\/td>\n   <\/tr>\n   <tr>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#aed0f4;\">Internet connection<\/td>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#C1E9F7;\">4G connection via Optus, an Australian telco.<br>Typical speeds of 30-50Mbps down, 30-50Mbps up.<\/td>\n   <\/tr>\n  <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"under-the-hood:-disk-to-disk-to-cloud-backup\">Under the hood: disk to disk to cloud backup<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the hood of BackupAssist ER are two backup engines \u2013 a brand new drive imaging engine, and an evolution of our existing file-based cloud backup engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We run the two engines in succession, for an overall two-stage backup job, giving our \u201cdisk-to-disk-to-cloud backup\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<table>\n <tr>\n  <td rowspan=\"2\" style=\"background:#bcbec0;\"><b>Disk To Disk To Cloud<\/b><\/td>\n  <td style=\"background:#aed0f4;\">Drive imaging engine<\/td>\n  <td style=\"background:#dceaf7;\">Performs a drive image to VHDX file (Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk format).<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n  <td style=\"background:#C1E9F7;\">Cloud file backup engine<\/td>\n  <td style=\"background:#DFEFF4;\">Transfers local files to cloud blob (chunk) storage, with deduplication, compression &#038; encryption.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<p>This gives you a fully automated, automatic offsite backup system that allows for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Fast local system and granular recovery from local backup<\/li><li>Cloud-based system recovery from cloud backup<\/li><li>The ability to download a cloud backup to local system, and perform local recoveries anywhere.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: alterative scenarios are available, but the ER Challenge requires the \u201cdisk to disk to cloud\u201d method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to do it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the instructions here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/er\/documentation\/backup\/disk-to-disk-to-cloud.htm\">https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/er\/documentation\/backup\/disk-to-disk-to-cloud.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"my-experiences-and-observations\">My experiences and observations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I found that installing BackupAssist ER and setting up my first disk-to-disk-to-cloud backup was very easy and straightforward. In fact, it was so straightforward, it\u2019s impossible to make a mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, it almost seemed too simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also expected that the cloud upload would take longer than it did. At about 6:30pm the backup started, and I left it to run overnight. In actuality, it finished by 8:39pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"performance-analysis\">Performance analysis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stage 1 \u2013 the disk to disk image backup<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n <table style=\"border:none;\">\n  <tbody>\n   <tr>\n    <td style=\"width:30%;border:1px solid white;background:#193a66;color:white;\"><b>VSS Snapshot<\/b><\/td>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#aed0f4;color:#193a66;\">10 seconds<\/td>\n   <\/tr>\n   <tr>\n    <td style=\"width:30%;border:1px solid white;background:#193a66;color:white;\"><b>Data transfer<\/b><\/td>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#aed0f4;color:#193a66;\">7 minutes 55 seconds<\/td>\n   <\/tr>\n   <tr>\n    <td style=\"width:30%;border:1px solid white;background:#193a66;color:white;\"><b>Cataloging files<\/b><\/td>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#aed0f4;color:#193a66;\">1 minute 30 seconds<\/td>\n   <\/tr>\n   <tr>\n    <td style=\"width:30%;border:1px solid white;background:#193a66;color:white;\"><b>Total size<\/b><\/td>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#aed0f4;color:#193a66;\">50,138,331,579 bytes across 3 VHDX files<\/td>\n   <\/tr>\n  <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Given that the backup itself took 7 minutes 55 seconds, the average transfer rate is 105554382 bytes per second \u2013 or 105.5MB\/s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just to see how this compares with what throughput is expected with the hardware I used, I ran two robocopy operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div><i>Robocopy \u2013 C:\\ to SSD \u2013 46.7 MB\/s<\/i><\/div>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>               Total    Copied   Skipped  Mismatch    FAILED    Extras\n    Dirs :     67746     67470         1         0       275         0\n   Files :    254041    253325         0         0       716         0\n   Bytes :  43.629 g  35.819 g         0         0   7.809 g         0\n   Times :   0:35:36   0:13:43                       0:00:00   0:21:53\n\n\n   Speed :            46710848 Bytes\/sec.\n   Speed :            2672.816 MegaBytes\/min.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<div><i>Robocopy \u2013 10GB of large files \u2013 161 MB\/s<\/i><\/div>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>               Total    Copied   Skipped  Mismatch    FAILED    Extras\n    Dirs :         1         0         1         0         0         2\n   Files :       140       140         0         0         0         0\n   Bytes :  10.905 g  10.905 g         0         0         0         0\n   Times :   0:01:13   0:01:12                       0:00:00   0:00:00\n\n\n   Speed :           161113703 Bytes\/sec.\n   Speed :            9219.000 MegaBytes\/min.\n   Ended : Saturday, 16 May 2020 2:56:19 PM<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The two robocopy tests specify the expected lower and upper bounds of performance. The lower bounds \u2013 hundreds of thousands of files, is what a file backup engine can achieve, being bottlenecked by slow File I\/O. The upper bounds is what a disk cloning engine can achieve, being bottlenecked by sustained disk I\/O.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BackupAssist ER\u2019s drive imaging engine is somewhere between a file backup engine and a disk cloning engine \u2013 it writes data block by block (like a disk cloner) but is aware of files, so that unused space is not backed up (like a file backup engine).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stage 2 \u2013 the disk to cloud backup<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n <table style=\"border:none;\">\n  <tbody>\n   <tr>\n    <td style=\"width:30%;border:1px solid white;background:#193a66;color:white;\"><b>Upload<\/b><\/td>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#aed0f4;color:#193a66;\">2 hours 31 minutes 28 seconds<\/td>\n   <\/tr>\n   <tr>\n    <td style=\"width:30%;border:1px solid white;background:#193a66;color:white;\"><b>Total size<\/b><\/td>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#aed0f4;color:#193a66;\">22.79GiB = 24,470,576,168 bytes<\/td>\n   <\/tr>\n  <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The average transfer rate is therefore \u2013 2,692,625 bytes per second \u2013 2.69MB\/s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The expected throughput from a 30Mbps connection, at 85% efficiency, is 3,187,500 bytes per second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my experience, this level of performance was pleasing, considering the variability in Internet speed during peak hours (6pm \u2013 10pm). Secondary factors affecting performance include the processing it takes on the source to deduplicate, compress and encrypt, and performance of the cloud server, the network in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"azure-costs\">Azure costs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The final piece of the puzzle is to look at Azure costs. (as at May 2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n <table style=\"border:none;\">\n  <tbody>\n   <tr>\n    <td style=\"width:30%;border:1px solid white;background:#193a66;color:white;\"><b>Operation<\/b><\/td>\n    <td style=\"width:35%;border:1px solid white;background:#193a66;color:white;text-align:center;\"><b>Cost &#8211; AUD<\/b><\/td>\n    <td style=\"width:35%;border:1px solid white;background:#193a66;color:white;text-align:center;\"><b>Cost \u2013 USD<\/b><\/td>\n   <\/tr>\n   <tr>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#aed0f4;color:#193a66;\">Hot LRS write operations<\/td>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#C1E9F7;text-align:center;color:#193a66;\">$2.61<\/td>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#C1E9F7;text-align:center;color:#193a66;\">$1.66<\/td>\n   <\/tr>\n   <tr>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#aed0f4;color:#193a66;\">Data transfer in<\/td>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#C1E9F7;text-align:center;color:#193a66;\">$0.00<\/td>\n    <td style=\"border:1px solid white;background:#C1E9F7;text-align:center;color:#193a66;\">$0.00<\/td>\n   <\/tr>\n  <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At time of writing, data transfer in is free, but writing blobs is a charged operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"conclusions\">Conclusion: The backup is successful \u2013 recoveries are next<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>And read my next blog: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/backupassist-er-challenge-the-local-vm-instant-boot-recovery\">BackupAssist ER Challenge \u2013 the Local VM Instant Boot Recovery<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until next time,<br><strong>Linus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/tiles_erc.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/tiles_erc.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/tiles_erc-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/2020-ba-cyber-resilience-champion\">Who will be the 2020 BA Cyber-Resilience Champion?<\/a><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/tiles_erc-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/tiles_erc-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/tiles_erc-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/vm-instant-boot-recovery\">BackupAssist ER Challenge<br>Scenario 1 \u2013&nbsp;<strong>The Local VM Instant Boot Recovery<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/tiles_erc-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/tiles_erc-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/tiles_erc-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/bare-metal-recovery-bmr\">BackupAssist ER Challenge<br>Scenario 2 \u2013&nbsp;<strong>The Full Bare Metal Recovery<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/tiles_erc-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/tiles_erc-3.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/tiles_erc-3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/cloud-virtual-machine-disaster-recovery-vmdr\">BackupAssist ER Challenge<br>Scenario 3 \u2013&nbsp;<strong>The Cloud VM Disaster Recovery (VMDR)<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/tiles_erc-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/tiles_erc-4.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/tiles_erc-4-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/extreme-recovery-windows-surface-mac\">BackupAssist ER Challenge<br>Scenario 4 \u2013&nbsp;<strong>The Extreme Recovery<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first step towards cyber-resilience is having a good backup. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":15935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,757,4,95,22,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backupassist-er","category-cyber-resilience","category-dev","category-guides","category-interest","category-support"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BackupAssist ER ChallengeThe Disk-To-Disk-To-Cloud Backup - Cyber Resilience Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BackupAssist ER ChallengeThe Disk-To-Disk-To-Cloud Backup - Cyber Resilience Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The first step towards cyber-resilience is having a good backup.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Cyber Resilience Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-18T01:54:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-05-27T00:39:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/er-backup1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"637\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Linus Chang\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Linus Chang\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Linus Chang\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e3b9b8dd4c91aac329df23310ea033be\"},\"headline\":\"BackupAssist ER Challenge The Disk-To-Disk-To-Cloud Backup\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-18T01:54:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-05-27T00:39:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup\"},\"wordCount\":998,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/er-backup1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"BackupAssist ER\",\"Cyber Resilience\",\"Developer\",\"Guides\",\"Interest\",\"Support\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup\",\"name\":\"BackupAssist ER Challenge The Disk-To-Disk-To-Cloud Backup - Cyber Resilience Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/er-backup1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-18T01:54:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-05-27T00:39:10+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/er-backup1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/er-backup1.jpg\",\"width\":1500,\"height\":637},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"BackupAssist ER ChallengeThe Disk-To-Disk-To-Cloud Backup\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Cyber Resilience Blog\",\"description\":\"Protect Your Cloud Data with BackupAssist\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Cyber Resilience Blog\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/09\/BA-Logo-Full-Logo.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/09\/BA-Logo-Full-Logo.svg\",\"caption\":\"Cyber Resilience Blog\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e3b9b8dd4c91aac329df23310ea033be\",\"name\":\"Linus Chang\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2ec8afa11de6866934a194c35c8d592faf45ced0ee666b40654a1752103bae17?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2ec8afa11de6866934a194c35c8d592faf45ced0ee666b40654a1752103bae17?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Linus Chang\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/author\/nithiyananda-soosai\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"BackupAssist ER ChallengeThe Disk-To-Disk-To-Cloud Backup - Cyber Resilience Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"BackupAssist ER ChallengeThe Disk-To-Disk-To-Cloud Backup - Cyber Resilience Blog","og_description":"The first step towards cyber-resilience is having a good backup.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup","og_site_name":"Cyber Resilience Blog","article_published_time":"2020-05-18T01:54:37+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-05-27T00:39:10+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1500,"height":637,"url":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/er-backup1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Linus Chang","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Linus Chang","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup"},"author":{"name":"Linus Chang","@id":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e3b9b8dd4c91aac329df23310ea033be"},"headline":"BackupAssist ER Challenge The Disk-To-Disk-To-Cloud Backup","datePublished":"2020-05-18T01:54:37+00:00","dateModified":"2020-05-27T00:39:10+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup"},"wordCount":998,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/er-backup1.jpg","articleSection":["BackupAssist ER","Cyber Resilience","Developer","Guides","Interest","Support"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup","url":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup","name":"BackupAssist ER Challenge The Disk-To-Disk-To-Cloud Backup - Cyber Resilience Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/er-backup1.jpg","datePublished":"2020-05-18T01:54:37+00:00","dateModified":"2020-05-27T00:39:10+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/er-backup1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/er-backup1.jpg","width":1500,"height":637},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-disk-cloud-backup#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"BackupAssist ER ChallengeThe Disk-To-Disk-To-Cloud Backup"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/","name":"Cyber Resilience Blog","description":"Protect Your Cloud Data with BackupAssist","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Cyber Resilience Blog","url":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/09\/BA-Logo-Full-Logo.svg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/09\/BA-Logo-Full-Logo.svg","caption":"Cyber Resilience Blog"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e3b9b8dd4c91aac329df23310ea033be","name":"Linus Chang","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2ec8afa11de6866934a194c35c8d592faf45ced0ee666b40654a1752103bae17?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2ec8afa11de6866934a194c35c8d592faf45ced0ee666b40654a1752103bae17?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Linus Chang"},"url":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/author\/nithiyananda-soosai"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15773"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16048,"href":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773\/revisions\/16048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}