Online Backup
Our backup system will allow you to be calm before any loss of data to your company.
Performing daily backups is a necessary evil. Every business knows they need to do it but the person who is nominated to do it generally sees it as time consuming and a chore. Basically it’s the last thing that has to be done before going home.
An alternative solution to a self-managed tape-based backup process and one that takes advantage of a disk-based system is to look at a third party managed service. With a managed service a company still controls the data backup policy i.e., what can be backed up and when, but doesn’t need to have a member of staff standing around waiting.
The latest backup services run over broadband and allow users to automate their processes and store copies of their data easily and remotely. This means that the backup is never forgotten and that data can be retrieved from any location should a problem occur.
The two primary advantages of a managed data backup service are:
- Set and Forget Backup – daily backups of your data are sent off-site automatically
- Anytime Data Recovery – you can recover your data at the click of a button
In order to appreciate its advantages, ease of application and use, we’ve outlined the main features of remote online backup below:
Automated
Backups can be scheduled to run unattended at a particular time or frequency
Networked
Data is transferred via any TCP-IP-enabled network connection. This removes the cost and effort of daily physical data shipment
Incremental
Only files that have been modified or added since the last backup will be identified for backup by the system
Progressive
The backup server is able to update files using the daily incrementals. This means every recovery is a full, updated file
Secure
Data is encrypted before leaving the device and remains so until recovered. SSL is used for network encryption and 448 bit Blowfish for storage
Online
A full copy of the most recent data and up to 60 days of historical changes is kept available for immediate recovery, eliminating the response times associated with tape systems
Disk-to-disk
Backups are held on disk for designated periods, enabling faster recovery, before being archived to tape for long-term storage (optional extra). Writing to disk also improves backup speed and data integrity verification
Sub-file
Changes to a file can be extracted at the binary level. If a Word document is edited only the changed bytes of that document will be extracted and sent through to the backup server
In conclusion:
- Enjoy complete peace of mind by automating the entire backup process
- Reduce risk due to human error and complexity with simple, single-pane-of-glass management for backup and restore
- Lower your bandwidth utilisation and costs with true incremental backups at binary level
- Scale from one to thousands of workstations and/or servers running different operating systems, all managed via one single console
- Customise your backup sets with filters, file-level inclusion and exclusion
- Fast data recovery directly to client with a single click
- Total security with replication to a second UK-based Data Centre every 15 minutes