Advanced Data Protection
Data Protection Including Offsite Backup and Disaster Recovery
You need to ensure you have frequent and reliable backups of your business data, at a secure offsite data storage facility. Have a disaster recovery solution for your entire IT environment to an offsite data storage facility in the event of an incident at your business that prevents you from using your computers. This may be something as simple as a temporary evacuation and is not always a complete catastrophe.
GDV’s Advanced Data Protection solution provides true disaster recovery solution to these two needs in a single managed service. Data protection includes encryption and offsite data storage at GDV's data centers. Additionally, the service is monitored and customers are contacted whenever maintenance or reconfiguration is required.
Configuration
Advanced Data Protection is deployed as shown here with a local backup appliance which includes redundant hot-swappable enterprise class drives.
Backup Online
- Backup online to our secure offsite data storage as often as every 15 minutes
- An agent is installed on each server and workstation to be protected. An initial
load is normally made to a supplied portable data device which is shipped to
GDV. Subsequent backups are incremental and done so that seamless access to
all data at each time point is provided. - Data is securely transmitted and stored offsite and on the local backup appliance.
- A local backup appliance enables reliable backups and fast local recovery of data
- Works with SQL and Exchange servers and any VSS compliant applications
- Incremental technology backups up only changed sectors after the initial data load ensuring rapid and efficient backups at all times.
Disaster Recovery Failover
- When a failure or other incident prevents access to your primary IT infrastructure,
a complete infrastructure is built and is operational within sixty minutes using
virtual machine technology. The disaster recocovery environment is hosted at GDV’s in offsite data storage on
an enterprise class VMWare server farm in a secure data center. - Recovery points can be chosen from 15 minute intervals over 7 days or daily intervals
prior to that. - Servers are isolated in their own Virtual Network and firewalled for security
- One or more workstations, running the required applications, are included in the disaster recovery
solution. - Once the primary environment is operational again, or rebuilt, the data can be
“failed back” to it from GDV’s data center with minimal downtime. - Quarterly testing of the disaster recovery environment and the local backup appliance is included.
Advanced Data Protection Provides Assured Disaster Recovery
Advanced Data Protection is available for any Windows Server 2003 or newer, including Exchange, SQL and SBS. It supports redirected DNS records for web sites and email upon failover.
This solution will grow with your business because it is easy to add servers or workstations.
Restore points as per backup intervals as shown below. Much faster and better than tape backup and also offers instant restore at multiple restore points including full Disaster Recovery Failover.
Network Installation Overview
- Plug the local backup appliance provided by GDV into your network
- Install the software agents on each server to be protected
- Create the backup schedule
- Execute the initial backup
- When all initial backups are completed, copy the data from the local backup appliance to the portable device provided by GDV and ship the drive to GDV in its secure packaging
Learn more about the history, evolution and best practices surrounding data protection.