BluVault for OneDrive Data Backup

BluVault enables automatically scheduled backups that ensure that all OneDrive data is safely stored and easily recoverable.

Benefits

1. Data Protection with Zero Cost Storage for Backup

Parablu’s BluVault enables Zero Cost Storage for Backup by allowing you to back up files SaaS workload data like that of M365 and store them in your existing online cloud storage account. Be it Microsoft OneDrive for Business, Google Drive, or your choice of online cloud storage – something that you already own and are paying for.

2. Cloud Vendor Agnostic

BluVault allows enterprises to utilize the public cloud without any vendor lock-in, giving enterprises the flexibility to adopt a cloud storage vendor (such Microsoft Azure Blob, OneDrive for Business, Google Drive, Amazon S3, IBM SoftLayer to name a few) that works best for the organization.

3. Protect Against Ransomware

BluVault keeps data safe from Ransomware attacks and ensures that your backup copies are available to you at all times.

4. Meet Compliance Regulations

BluVault data backup & restore can help you satisfy critical requirements necessary to achieve compliance with regulations such as HIPAA, HITECH, SOX, NYDFS, and GDPR.

5. Zero-Knowledge Privacy

BluVault is powered by Parablu’s proprietary privacy gateway solution, which thoroughly encrypts and obfuscates all backup data before writing it to cloud storage targets. The ability to control and modify the encryption keys always remains with the business.

6. Centralized Data Management

Using centrally configured, and customizable policies, BluVault automatically, optimally, and periodically identifies changed data on user endpoints, compressing, de-duplicating, and encrypting data before sending it to cloud storage.

Features

1. Automated OneDrive Backup

BluVault enables automatically scheduled backups that ensure that all OneDrive data is safely stored and easily
recoverable. Granular restores enable you to get back even a single file or the entire drive.

2. End- to- End Encryption

Zero Knowledge Privacy is a tenet that all Parablu products are built on. This ensures that your data can be accessed only by you and nobody else – not the cloud vendor, not even us.

3. Full and incremental backup

Allows an initial full backup and subsequent incremental backups. Backups can be scheduled as often as the
administrator wishes – even multiple times a day.

4. De-duplication and compression

Smart sub-file level de-duplication combined with data compression saves network bandwidth and valuable storage space.

5. Policy based management

Parablu’s BluVault provides policy-based management that allows an administrator to easily control all
elements of backup behavior – backup schedules, folders to include/exclude, file types to include/exclude,
number of versions to retain, file size limits, user quota limits etc. Once these parameters are set, all OneDrive
account pointed to the policy read these parameters and change their backup behavior in a matter of a couple of hours.

6. Quick Recovery

Recovery time of your OneDrive files can be crucial to reducing downtime and ensuring your business doesn’t suffer. BluVault enables you to recover your data according to your need at a single click and can be done easily by your team based on their requirements

7. Self-service Interface

BluVault offers the flexibility to allow users to choose what to backup and do their own restores. BluVault’s
easy-to-use interface means that users can initiate their own restores without requiring an administrator to get involved. The self-service nature is fully controllable by the administrator though, and can be turned up and down based on the organization’s appetite for self-service. Certain user groups can also be given privileges than others.

8. Auditable Data Trail

BluVault data backup is completely auditable. All touchpoints on the system are automatically logged and generate an audit trail. Parablu’s easy-to-use dashboard generates detailed reports on the movement of data between endpoints and the cloud, enforcing accountability.

9. CPU Throttling

Allows administrators to control the impact the Parablu agent has on the endpoint, but adjusting CPU usage levels up or down on a scale of 1 to 10.

10. Delegated Administration capability

Administrative roles with limited permissions can be assigned to selected users to allow them to perform specific administrative operations.

11. Administrator Approved Deletion

Allows an Administrator to delete specific user files and folders from backup storage. Critical for GDPR compliance and to satisfy users’ “right to be forgotten”. Actions are audit-logged for compliance reasons.

12. AD and Azure AD Support

Integrate easily with enterprise namespaces, such as Active Directory and Azure Active Directory. AD and AAD can be used not just for authentication but also to provision and deprovision users on an ongoing basis.

13. Litigation hold

Allows administrators to assign special policies to identified users which align to Legal Hold requirements.