This white paper details how the University of Virginia uses Lyve Cloud as a secure, cost-predictable disaster recovery and primary storage solution. It outlines UVA’s need for dependable offsite backups, data-loss prevention, and fast recovery for faculty, student, and research workloads. The paper highlights Lyve Cloud’s multi-region availability, ransomware protection, immutability, encryption, and lack of egress fees. It explains UVA’s workflow using ZFS snapshots and rclone to mirror local data reliably into S3 buckets, achieving scalable, secure, and affordable recovery operations.

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