Advanced Data Protection
Combining Backup and Failover while Protecting Businesses from the Five Failures with a Unified, Simple, Cost-Effective Solution
You need to ensure you have frequent and reliable backups of your business data, preferably off site. Have the ability to fail over your entire IT environment to a remote site 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 a simple solution to these two needs in a single managed service. Data is encrypted and stored off site at GDV’s data centers. Additionally, the service is monitored and customers are contacted whenever maintenance or reconfiguration is required.
Backup
- Backup 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 encrypted and stored off site.
- An optional on site appliance can allow for faster 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.
- 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 environment is hosted at GDV’s data centers on
an enterprise class VMWare server farm. - 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
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 failover environment is included.
Advanced Data Protection Provides Complete Assured Recovery
Advanced Data Protection is available for any Windows Server 2000 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 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 Overview
Option 1 - No onsite appliance
- Install the software agents on each server & workstation to be protected
- Connect the portable data drive to a server on the network
- Create the initial destination to point at the portable data drive
- Create the backup schedule
- Execute the initial backup
- When all initial backups are completed, ship the portable data drive to GDV
- Pause backups, edit destination to the data center details provided by GDV on each server
- On notification from GDV, recommence the backups on each server
- Plug the onsite appliance into your network and let it obtain an IP address or assign one
- Install the software agents on each server & workstation to be protected
- Create initial destination to point at the on site appliance and create the backup schedule
- Execute the initial backup
- When all initial backups are completed, copy the data form the onsite appliance to the portable
- data drive provided by GDV and ship the drive to GDV in its secure packaging