Now 365 DRaaS - Quick Starter Guide
- Adrian Lee
Overview
This starter guide introduces basic backup concepts, best practices, backup and alarm settings, and additional tips to help customers effectively manage the NoW 365 DraaS service.
1.0.0 - Best Practices
The 3-2-1 backup rule is a widely recommended strategy for data backup. It is designed to ensure that your data is safe and can be recovered in case of failure, loss, or corruption. The rule can be summarized as:
3 copies of your data: Keep at least three copies of your data — the original file and two backups.
2 different media types: Store these copies on at least two different types of storage media (e.g., external hard drives, cloud storage, USB drives, etc.).
1 offsite backup: Keep one backup offsite or in the cloud to protect against physical disasters (such as fires, floods, or theft) that could affect your primary and local backup storage.
By following the 3-2-1 rule, you significantly reduce the chances of losing your data due to a hardware failure or unforeseen event.
2.0.0 - Default Backup Job Settings
During onboarding, the following basic backup settings are applied to all backup jobs (for both servers and workstations):
Backup Settings | Value |
|---|---|
Backup Mode | Vol level (1st choice) File Level (2nd choice) |
Backup Destination (Target) | NoW 365 Cloud Connect Repository |
Retention days | 14 days |
Compression | Optimized (Recommended) |
Storage Optimization | 1 MB (Recommended) |
Storage Encryption | None |
Health Check Corruption guard | Enabled |
Remove deleted backup after 14 days | Enabled |
3.0.0 - Default Alarms and Settings
To make things easier, we have preconfigured alarms with default settings optimized for various common backup scenarios.
We focus on the following three alarms:
NoW 365 DraaS - Backup agent job state
NoW 365 DraaS - Computer without backup
NoW 365 DraaS - Hosted backup repository storage quota
Default Alarm Names
All of our preconfigured alarms will always start with *NoW 365 DraaS
Default Alarm Recipients
"By default, alarm notifications are sent to the technical contact's email address specified in the Service Agreement
Custom Alarms
Customers can always create and customize their own alarms. It is highly recommended
For details on our default, pre-defined alarm settings optimized for various scenarios, please refer to the link below.
NoW 365 DRaaS - Alarm reference for Agent Based Backup
4.0.0 - How to Guides
Additional guides will be added overtime
General
Alarm Management