The consulting company, Newell
& Associates had a disk drive crash six months
after it began operations. And, even with a fully
backed up system on a tape drive, it took over five
days to get a critical computer system restored.
Newell & Associates spend several months investigating
all the alternatives to manual backup systems. And,
finally decided that the best backup system is the
one used by Fortune 500 companies. Companies like
IBM, GE, and Amoco.
Most fortune 500 companies use
the same basic techniques to protect their data:
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All their systems are completely automated
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The data is copied to a central location
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Highly skilled technicians implement and monitor
the process
Newell & Associates then spend
several months searching for the right hardware and
software to enable this backup system to work for
a typical company. Without the high overhead.
In the middle of 1999, Quantum Tech,
a leading backup software company, released a remote
online backup system that would allow Newell &
Associates to set up a centralized backup server so
that its customers could lease a highly effective
backup system with no overhead.
The advantages to a typical business
are enormous:
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All files are protected by state of the art
encryption, only the customer can retrieve their
files
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Completely automated off-site protection
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Fast online recovery of any version of any
protected file
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Easy installation and setup
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Only an internet connection is required, eliminating
the need for expensive backup equipment and
media
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The backup server is monitored by highly skilled
technicians whose only job is to make sure the
backups are performed properly
This is how it works....
We operate an off-site storage facility for the
user's data. At the facility, an account is maintained
for each user. Each account is protected by a password
known only to the user!
The electronic vault system is set up so that at a
preset time, usually late at night the clients computer
automatically wakes up and prepares its data for backup,
it determines which files have been modified since
the last backup, compresses them, encrypts them for
security. When the data is ready the computer uses
its modem or Internet connection to contact our Servers
and transmit the data.
Our Servers verify and store the
data. The next morning the backup is transferred to
a tape and placed in a fireproof safe for permanent
safe keeping. They can rest assured that their data
is safe, because it is stored off-site.
