Backup and Disaster Recovery Protection from Computer Troubleshooters
As a responsible business owner you want to ensure you have a powerful Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) solution for your business in place. You want it to be a highly reliable, highly scalable service that won’t cost thousands of pounds to setup either.
With no upfront fees or license to purchases, Computer Troubleshooters offers you a comprehensive BDR program in days, not months like some other offerings require.
With our Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution. You’ll discover the easiest and most affordable way to ensure speedy data, application and server restoration as well as the best way to rapidly resume in case of a server crash or a disaster.
We provide our clients with a cost-effective way to “bullet-proof” their data. We offer a comprehensive BDR solution for Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 based servers. This reasonably priced, all-encompassing solution for small-to-medium sized businesses provides:
- Very frequent backups
- Multiple restore points
- Standby server capabilities
- Advanced restoration options (file- and folder-level restorations) with Exchange message and mailbox recovery
- Bare-metal restorations to dissimilar hardware
- Seamless off-site data storage
With “Instant Virtualisation” capabilities, in less than 30 minutes, our unique network attached storage (NAS) device can be configured to function as a standby server if and when needed. This unique device also can replace management-intensive, error-prone tape backups while also providing much more.
Our NAS-based technology performs data backup at the block level where the actual 1s and 0s are captured from the hard drive, essentially eliminating failures related to open files. Also because block-level data is raw information that’s independent of file structure formatting, it’s the most efficient way to write to a disk, we can capture it all! Even database applications such as Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange Server, these can now transfer data in blocks without the worry if files are open or in use. Our backups can be performed as frequently as every 15 minutes, providing your business with numerous restoration points compared to traditional “over night” tape backup runs. Optionally your data can be sent securely from the local NAS device to highly-available, redundant off-site co-location facility. All aspects of the on-site and off-site solution are monitored around the clock by our network operations centre (NOC).
With our BDR solution, we’re able to provide you with more frequent reliable backups and a well-conceived recovery strategy for your business systems and business continuity plans.
Securely Backup Every Operating System Component
Our NAS devices can be configured to backup multiple Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 based servers by partition or logical drives. There are no file- or folder-level exclusions, because a snapshot of the entire partition is taken at the block level on the hard drive. In order to take advantage of the standby server functionality, the operating system drive must be selected. The data backup can also be scheduled to run during specific times and days of the week.
Base Image
The first backup taken of a server is the base image. The base image is an exact, complete copy of the currently used space on the server. The base image is taken for each volume (or partition) on your servers. Once the base image completes, all future backups are incrementals.
Base Image Transfer by USB Drive
The base image files on our NAS device can be transferred to an external USB 2.0 drive. The USB drive is then shipped to our co-location facility where the base image files are copied to our Storage Farm (SF). The USB drive transfer process can significantly reduce the time involved with transferring large initial base images to our co-location facility. While the Internet transfer is the default process, when the USB copy is invoked on the NAS device, the Internet transfer process is paused. Once the USB transfer process completes successfully at our co-location facility and the base image(s) is copied to and verified on our SF, the Internet transfer process is then resumed.
To estimate Internet transfer speeds, we use the following calculations:
1 Mbps sustained available throughput = 10 GB of data per day
256 Kbps sustained available throughput = 2.5 GB of data per day
If the Internet transfer process is already in progress and taking an extended amount of time, we can still opt for the USB drive transfer process.
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