Traditional structured databases are being replaced by databases which are often used in clouds. Well, the problem that such databases bring along with them is that it's very difficult to back up these databases. However, these databases can be protected through multisite replication. To run a node-level backup of the data on one node of the multi-node system is one of the most common methods used to back up these databases. One can also backup their database using a snapshot. Data IO helps to make this process of backing up databases easy. Read more at: https://storageswiss.com/2016/06/07/backing-up-massive-cloud-databases/