Secure your DevOps data with Backrightup

Overview

As businesses accelerate development with DevOps and cloud-based infrastructure, robust disaster recovery and data protection are more critical than ever. Without these, vital data and infrastructure face the risk of unforeseen disruptions.

A major challenge is accidental deletions in platforms like Azure DevOps, GitHub, and GitLab. Microsoft provides a 28-day recovery window for deleted organizations, after which the data is permanently deleted. GitHub offers a 60-day recovery period, while GitLab allows 90 days. Once these periods expire, data recovery is impossible without a third-party backup solution.

The main reason for backing up data in these platforms is to ensure recovery after accidental deletion, system failures, or cyberattacks. However, built-in tools have limitations that make third-party solutions essential for comprehensive coverage.

Backrightup has emerged as the go-to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solution for DevOps environments. It overcomes these limitations by offering automated, comprehensive backups that cover all critical elements—repositories, pipelines, configurations, and object storage. With Backrightup, your DevOps environment remains resilient and protected, no matter the platform's built-in constraints. This ensures that businesses can quickly recover from disruptions and maintain continuous operations, safeguarding both their development processes and overall business continuity.

Limitations of Built-In Solutions

Although Azure DevOps, GitHub, and GitLab offer built-in backup and recovery, they have key limitations:

• Azure DevOps: Provides a 28-day recovery window for deleted organizations. However, it only allows full organization restoration, not granular recovery. Microsoft advises using third-party backup solutions for long-term data retention.
• GitLab: Excludes object storage from its backups. GitLab recommends third-party backups for comprehensive protection, especially for large volumes of data or forked projects, where inefficiencies arise in native backup processes.
• GitHub: Allows a 60-day recovery window for deleted repositories. Once this period ends, recovery is impossible without an external solution.

These limitations highlight the need for a more flexible, granular, and long-term backup strategy beyond what native tools provide.

Product Description

Backrightup offers automated, end-to-end backup and disaster recovery tailored to DevOps environments. It provides continuous protection throughout the development lifecycle while ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Key features include:

• Automated Backup: Daily backups of repositories, pipelines, and configurations.
• Easy Restore: Quick restoration of individual repositories or full environments, minimizing downtime.
• Compliance & Reporting: Detailed audit trails and reports to ensure regulatory compliance.
• DevOps Resilience: Maintains backup resilience for critical code and infrastructure.
• Cloud-Native: Optimized for cloud environments, ensuring agility and scalability.

Compliance and Regulatory

Regulatory bodies emphasize the importance of data protection and disaster recovery. Examples include:

• APRA (Australian Prudential Regulation Authority): Requires effective data backup and restoration capabilities.
• GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation): Mandates that businesses ensure personal data recoverability.
• ISO 27001: Calls for a comprehensive security management system, including robust backup and recovery strategies.
• SOC 2: Requires organizations to demonstrate strong data protection and recovery protocols.

Backrightup helps organizations meet these regulatory standards by providing a robust, offsite backup solution that ensures data protection and rapid recovery, safeguarding operations and maintaining compliance.

Client Implementations

Backrightup is trusted by organizations across diverse sectors for its DevOps resilience and disaster recovery capabilities. Some of the clients include:

• TelstraSuper
• Nuvei (TILL Payments)
• SA Water
• Allianz

Success Stories

Backrightup protects your development assets and processes, empowering DevOps teams to work confidently, ensuring applications remain secure, compliant, and resilient in any scenario.