# Which backup software offers genuinely immutable storage and air-gapped copies that ransomware cannot reach?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Question for the backup and cyber resilience folks on G2: which platforms actually deliver immutable, air-gapped copies as a real architectural property, not a checkbox feature that's hard to configure or missing in practice?</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Looking at the<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/backup"> </a><a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/backup">Backup</a> category specifically through the ransomware-recovery lens.</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/commvault-cloud/reviews"><strong>Commvault Cloud</strong></a> (4.4/5, 191 reviews) has reviews that specifically credit data immutability and built-in anomaly detection with giving teams real confidence their backups are safe from ransomware. Worth knowing going in: at least one recent review flags the air gap feature not being available in their local data center, which suggests availability may depend on your specific deployment model. Anyone hit that same limitation?</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/rubrik/reviews"><strong>Rubrik</strong></a> (4.6/5, 283 reviews) is consistently described as building immutability into the architecture itself rather than as a toggle, with a retention lock that blocks deletion before the window closes and a logically air-gapped repository in the major public clouds. Does that structural framing hold up the way it's marketed once you're actually testing a restore?</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/veeam-data-platform/reviews"><strong>Veeam Data Platform</strong></a> (4.6/5, 708 reviews) is frequently cited for clean, granular restores backed by immutable local copies, with users specifically calling out that backup copies to local storage stay immutable by design. How does that compare to Commvault or Rubrik once you're testing an actual worst-case recovery, not just reading the spec sheet?</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Has anyone actually had to pull from an air-gapped copy after a real ransomware event, and did it work the way the product documentation said it would?</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"></p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"></p>

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- Posted at: 8 days ago
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## Comments
### Comment 1

&lt;p&gt;I’d want to see restore tests from the isolated copy, not just proof that immutability is enabled. The real test is whether teams can recover cleanly when production credentials and primary backup systems are assumed compromised.&lt;/p&gt;

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- Posted at: 6 days ago
- Author title: Marketer





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