Business Backup Suite

Business Backup Suite provides an integrated backup solution

BBS (Business Backup Suite) is a comprehensive commercial backup solution developed by TerraMaster. Its core components include Duple Backup (DB), Centralized Backup (CB), TerraSync (TS), CloudSync, and Snapshot. Duple Backup is designed for off-site disaster recovery of data on TerraMaster backup servers. Centralized Backup handles the centralized backup of data from employee computers, file servers, virtual machines, and more to the local TerraMaster backup server. TerraSync enables data synchronization between multiple backup servers and between backup servers and PCs. CloudSync facilitates cloud-based disaster recovery solutions. The Snapshot feature provides snapshots and restoration of file systems and folders, offering protection against ransomware attacks.

BBS (Business Backup Suite) is specifically designed for business applications, offering complete functionality and meeting the high-performance requirements of enterprise environments. Users can flexibly combine TerraMaster's BBS backup components based on their specific needs to create diverse backup strategies, effectively addressing the majority of backup requirements for small and medium-sized enterprises.
TerraMaster BBS (PDF)

Flexible Combination for Deployment in All Scenarios

Depending on application scenarios, enterprise size, or security level requirements, core applications can be flexibly combined to implement diverse backup strategies. For instance, enterprises with 50 or fewer employees can use a single-server deployment with off-site disaster recovery to save costs. In contrast, enterprises with 100 to 200 or more employees can opt for a dual-server deployment, integrating off-site disaster recovery with cloud disaster recovery solutions. 

Simple and Efficient Deployment

BBS features a fully graphical user interface, simplifying configuration and eliminating the need for coding. This user-friendly design reduces the learning curve, enhances deployment efficiency, and lowers management and operation costs.

Powerful and Secure

BBS supports high storage efficiency, capable of handling file backup demands at a scale of tens of millions of files. It employs global LTS（Transport Layer Security） encryption technology and offers a variety of security strategies, combining active and passive protection to meet the data security needs of different organizations.

Computer Backup of Employees

The data stored on employees' personal computers, including work results, design plans, and other information, are not only key intellectual properties and compliance elements of an enterprise but also crucial for operational development. For R&D-based enterprises, the R&D materials and innovative ideas within this data are essential for maintaining technological innovation and competitiveness. Thus, ensuring the integrity and security of this data is vital for enterprises.

Challenges in Backing Up Employee Computers

Backing up data from employee computers in enterprises presents several challenges, including the tedium of manual backups, complexity in data management, human error, cost concerns, and the need for robust security and privacy protections. Additionally, network performance can impact backup processes. To address these challenges, enterprises should implement centralized backup solutions and establish comprehensive backup management systems and strategies.

Active Backup Solution for Employee Computers

Centralized Backup (CB) is a backup tool developed by TerraMaster that offers a centralized, proactive backup solution tailored to the needs of business users. By deploying CB on an integrated backup server, IT administrators can centrally back up the storage space or even system partitions of employee computers within the enterprise. The backup server initiates the process, eliminating the need for individual configuration on each host.

Windows PC Data Backup

Using Centralized Backup (CB), employees don't need to be involved in the backup process. IT administrators can initiate backup requests from the server using the PC backup module of Centralized Backup to actively back up folders, disk partitions, or system partitions on hundreds of employees' computers. Centralized Backup effectively safeguards digital assets scattered across employees' computers and significantly reduces the workload for IT administrators.

Multi-Version Recovery Management

CB offers multi-version management for backup targets. In the event of a disaster, IT administrators can roll back to a specific version in the version library and restore data to the designated host. Each CB backup task supports up to 9,999 backup versions.

MacOS Computer Data Backup

It offers protection for critical data and systems through Time Machine Backup. The backup server can serve as the destination for Time Machine, automatically backing up data from multiple Macs. Time Machine Backup also includes space quota settings to prevent Mac backups from consuming excessive server storage.

Passive computer backup solution for employees

In addition to Centralized Backup for IT administrators, TerraMaster backup server offers TerraSync, a computer backup tool that employees can manage independently. TerraSync provides both data synchronization and backup functions, enabling employees to create their own synchronization or backup strategies based on the importance and frequency of data use. Employees can synchronize or back up data from their computers to TerraMaster backup servers. TerraSync also supports data synchronization across multiple devices and platforms, such as Windows computers, macOS computers, and iOS/Android mobile devices, enhancing mobile office convenience and improving employee work efficiency.

Multi-Client Support

The TerraSync service supports a range of commonly used clients, including backup servers, Windows and macOS computers, and iOS/Android mobile devices. It can synchronize with up to 2,000 clients.

Smart and Efficient Synchronization Strategies

By monitoring folder and file statuses, the TerraSync client can promptly detect changes and quickly synchronize new or modified files by comparing them with the server.

Historical Version Recovery Management

TerraSync Server manages historical versions of synchronized and backup files. In the event of accidental data deletion or a disaster, users can search historical version records via the client and select the appropriate version for restoration. Each file can retain up to 32 versions.

Team Collaboration

By configuring personal and team folders, users can protect private data and create collaboration groups with specific permissions for group members. TerraSync facilitates file sharing and teamwork, enhancing overall team efficiency.

Directory Backup

In addition to file synchronization, TerraSync's Windows and macOS desktop clients offer the ability to back up computer directories. Users can back up specified folders on their computers to your TNAS. In the event of accidental data deletion or a disaster, users can access historical version records through the client and restore the appropriate version.

Data Security

To ensure robust data security, TerraSync employs SSL certificate encryption for all backup and synchronization tasks between the client and server. Users also have the option to import and configure their own trusted digital certificates.

Server Backup Solution

Centralized Backup (CB) is a backup tool developed by TerraMaster that offers a centralized, proactive backup solution tailored to the needs of business users. By deploying CB on an integrated backup server, IT administrators can centrally back up the storage space or even system partitions of employee computers within the enterprise. The backup server initiates the process, eliminating the need for individual configuration on each host.

One Machine, Multiple Uses

Deploying CB on the TerraMaster backup server enables enterprises to meet the backup needs of employee computers, servers, file servers, virtual machines, and workstations with a single device. It supports backups for up to 200 devices, significantly reducing IT investment costs.

Server Backup

The CB server backup function allows IT administrators to simultaneously back up the systems and data of up to 200 servers to the backup server. In case of an incident, they can quickly restore affected hosts, minimizing the impact of equipment failures on business operations.
Supported Versions: Windows Server 2022, 2019, 2016

File Server Backup

File servers are central to storing an enterprise’s digital assets. Disasters such as power outages, equipment failures, or system malfunctions can lead to the loss of these valuable assets. By using CB’s file server backup function, IT administrators can back up file directories from multiple file servers simultaneously, supporting up to 108TB of storage space.
This significantly mitigates the risk of data loss due to disasters. CB supports servers running SMB and Rsync 3.0 or above (Linux) protocols.

Multi-Version Recovery Management

CB offers multi-version management for backup targets. In the event of a disaster, IT administrators can roll back to a specific version in the version library and restore the data to the designated destination host.

Complete Process Control

The CB server backup function allows IT administrators to simultaneously back up the systems and data of up to 200 servers to the backup server. In case of an incident, they can quickly restore affected hosts, minimizing the impact of equipment failures on business operations.
Supported Versions: Windows Server 2022, 2019, 2016

Virtual Machine Backup Solution

Virtual machine backup is crucial for maintaining the integrity and recoverability of critical business systems and data. In the face of risks such as hardware failure, software errors, human mistakes, or natural disasters, backups can swiftly restore the virtual machine to its most recent stable state, minimizing service interruption, ensuring business continuity, and preventing data loss and potential financial impact. Therefore, regular virtual machine backups are an essential component of any enterprise risk management strategy.

TerraMaster Centralized Backup (CB) offers a comprehensive, one-stop solution for virtual machine backup and recovery. It supports backups for VMware vSphere and Windows Hyper-V virtual machines, integrating VMware's Changed Block Tracking (CBT) and Microsoft's Resilient Change Tracking (RCT) to ensure only changed data is transmitted, greatly enhancing backup efficiency. With CB's virtual machine backup functionality, administrators can easily manage backup operations for up to 200 virtual machines from a single backup server.

Centralized Backup excels in disaster recovery as well. In the event of an incident, IT administrators can quickly locate and select the appropriate backup version using the time rollback function in the version library, allowing for swift data restoration to the specified destination host.

Additionally, Centralized Backup is highly compatible with various virtual machine versions, including VMware ESXi 8.0, 7.0, 6.7, and 6.5, VMware vCenter 8.0, 7.0, 6.7, and 6.5, as well as Windows Server Hyper-V 2019 and 2016. This ensures comprehensive backup and protection for all your virtual machine environments.

Disaster Recovery Solution

To safeguard against data threats from hardware failures, system malfunctions, theft, and natural disasters, TerraMaster's enterprise data backup solution includes a secondary layer of protection called Duplicate Backup (DB). DB is a robust disaster recovery tool with a user-friendly interface. It enables IT administrators to back up important folders, entire data volumes, or iSCSI LUNs from the backup server to remote locations such as another backup server, file server, or cloud storage. Supporting various backup strategies, including incremental and multi-version backups, DB ensures a straightforward and efficient backup and restoration process, facilitating rapid data recovery in the event of equipment failure.

To prevent data loss in the event of an accident, the 3-2-1 backup strategy is widely used. This approach involves maintaining at least 3 backups of the data, with 2 stored on different devices and at least 1 stored off-site. Duple Backup, a professional tool designed specifically for TerraMaster backup servers, is ideal for implementing the 3-2-1 backup strategy.

Multiple Backup Targets

Duple Backup supports the backup of shared folders, specific file directories, iSCSI LUNs and their configurations, or entire volumes on the backup server. It can handle up to 10 million files and provide up to 108TB of storage space for backups.

Multiple Destinations

Depending on your business needs, you can choose up to 4 different backup destinations for your data, including another TerraMaster backup server, a file server, a WebDAV server, or multiple mainstream cloud storage options. Using the Duple Backup Vault client, you can simplify the backup configuration process by setting up mutual backups between two TerraMaster backup servers.

Diverse Backup Strategies

Depending on business needs and storage resource allocation, you can select incremental backup, multi-version backup, or hybrid-mode backup. TerraMaster's unique hybrid-mode strategy offers data deduplication to enhance storage space utilization and supports up to 9,999 backup versions.

Data Security

To ensure data security, Duple Backup uses SSL certificate encryption throughout the backup process, protecting data transmission.

Efficient Transmission

To enhance backup efficiency, data is compressed before transmission, achieving up to 30% compression. This reduces network bandwidth usage, saves storage space, and lowers IT investment costs for customers.

Easy Restoration

Duple Backup offers an intuitive graphical interface that provides tailored restoration methods for various destinations. In the event of an accident, users can quickly restore data using Duple Backup’s tool, minimizing losses and reducing recovery time.

Cloud Data Backup

By using TerraMaster's CloudSync service with the integrated backup server, enterprises can fully protect their network disk and cloud SaaS data. As an advanced cloud disk synchronization application, CloudSync enables high-speed, real-time synchronization between local backup servers and cloud storage. It efficiently downloads cloud data for easy access, overcomes Internet bandwidth limitations, and significantly boosts work efficiency. This cost-effective solution offers reliable off-site disaster recovery strategies, ensuring data integrity and business continuity.

Advantages of the CloudSync Cloud Disaster Recovery Solution:

Supports synchronization with major cloud storage services, including Google Drive, OneDrive, Amazon S3, Dropbox, and Baidu Cloud.

Offers bidirectional disaster recovery strategies, including cloud-to-local and local-to-cloud.
Monitors file changes in real-time and triggers immediate data synchronization.
Supports various synchronization strategies to accommodate flexible data utilization needs.
Provides data encryption during upload to prevent sensitive data leakage on cloud storage.
Offers flexible synchronization options and scheduled tasks to avoid network bandwidth congestion during peak business hours.

Avoid Ransomware Attacks

Ransomware poses a major threat to data security. A single compromised device can swiftly and discreetly infect your entire network, including network-connected backups, often without detection. Ransomware not only encrypts your data but can also delete, overwrite, or destroy it. Failing to pay the ransom risks permanent loss of critical business data.

In addition to backup and disaster recovery solutions, TerraMaster Backup Server offers a powerful tool against ransomware attacks: folder and file system snapshots.

Folder Snapshot

Leveraging the COW (Copy-on-Write) feature of the Btrfs file system, snapshots are highly efficient and storage space is optimized.
The scheduled task can take a snapshot of the folder or iSCSI LUN every hour.
Each folder can hold up to 1,024 snapshots.
Arranged chronologically, browsing and restoring snapshots are quick and easy.
Enhance snapshot security by supporting incremental snapshot replication.
When the server goes down, the business can swiftly switch to the backup server and resume operations.

File System Snapshot (TFSS)

TerraMaster's Unique Snapshot Protection Solution.
Minimize human error, create full system or volume snapshots, and enhance data security.
Adopt a read-only snapshot storage method to minimize the risk of ransomware affecting snapshots and enhance overall snapshot security.
Customizable snapshot scheduling tasks allow for flexible arrangement in alignment with the business operation cycle.
One-click activation and restoration simplify IT administrators' tasks.

Applications of TerraMaster Backup Servers

The TerraMaster integrated backup server offers enterprise-grade disaster recovery solutions tailored to meet the demands of freight, efficiency, collaboration, compatibility, and security in a digitally centralized enterprise environment. It is ideal for data disaster recovery in small to medium-sized enterprises, campus cloud disk and backup solutions, document management for design institutions, and PACS digital medical data storage.

Share encrypted drawings and build a file server with internal and external network isolation;
Hierarchical permission design supports AD/LDAP to smoothly integrate into the enterprise environment;
Virtualized deployment improves the security of design software and saves IT budget;
Supervise behavior records and trace operation logs;
Centrally protect design drawings and defend against ransomware threats;
Improve the efficiency of massive drawing backup and streamline storage space utilization;
Self-contained disaster recovery to deal with ransomware, and off-site backup quickly restores business operations;
Easy to operate, no need to change existing access habits.

How to choose TerraMaster backup 
server?

The TerraMaster integrated backup server can tailor backup strategies based on enterprise scale and user count, utilizing appropriate hardware resources.

For businesses with less than 50 employees

Teams or multiple teams working together can use Centralized Backup or TerraSync to backup PCs to TNAS, and then use Duple Backup to replicate it to local or remote TNAS.
Applicable scenarios: individual businesses, small advertising agencies, grassroots government agencies, startups, individuals, studios, wedding photography studios, etc.
Hardware recommendations: U4-500

For businesses with 50-100 employees

Companies operating at multiple locations can synchronize data from each branch's local server to the central server at the headquarters and continuously backup these data to remote auxiliary TNAS servers and the cloud.
Applicable scenarios: small factories, law firms, medical examination centers, hospitals, training and educational institutions, fashion design companies, private hospitals, government agencies, etc.
Hardware recommendations: T9-500 Pro,  U8-500 Plus

For businesses with 100-200 employees

Large companies can use Centralized Backup to backup PCs, servers, and virtual machines to the TNAS central server and backup these data to auxiliary remote TNAS servers to ensure continuous operation.
Applicable scenarios: government agencies, colleges and universities, small and medium-sized research and development institutions, architectural design institutes, hospitals, medical examination centers, banks, public security, railways, stock exchanges, logistics companies, supermarket chains, television stations, restaurant chains, etc.
Hardware recommendations:  T12-500 Pro, U12-500 Plus