Storage Solutions - Back Up

The first element of company protection should be for the data, without data there will be no service. Data corruption must be prevented at all costs. In General this is protected by the backup device and as data sizes grow recovery can be lengthy, typically on a fully trusted backup system this would take a day to recover yesterdays data providing a 48 hour loss of service, in practice very few backup systems are fully trusted and compromises are made to maintain user performance as the backup process expands beyond the out of hours availability.

There are several methods that assist the recover of data, ANS Group offer solutions in all of the above scenarios

• Snapshot data and CDP provisions will provide immediate file recovery
• Presentations of snapshots either physical or virtual disks to a backup server will provide out of bound backups to tape with no risk of open files
• HSM solutions will minimise the backup requirements and restoration times to ensure only real data is backed up
• Virtual tape libraries can be used to provide Disk to Disk to tape backups

Ultimately although a backup to tape should not be relied upon for disaster recovery there will always be a requirement to backup data to tape or other long term storage media in the traditional manner to ensure that there is sufficient retention of data to meet financial and other regulations.

For many organisations the tape backup device is the main recovery point in the event of a disaster.

ANS Group offers advanced backup solutions to provide a total data management solution for multi-platform environments.

Syncsort Backup Express is a unique software solution for enterprise disaster recovery and business continuity. It is engineered to meet the demands of today's SLAs for fast recovery (RTO) and current recovery points (RPO). Syncsort Backup Express Near-CDP technology provides recovery in minutes to a choice from many points in time – for bare metal recovery and for SQL Server, Exchange, and Oracle application recovery.

Syncsort Backup Express provides three critical capabilities other products can't match:

• ExpressDR: Bare metal recovery in minutes, including operating system, settings, and application software – without special disaster recovery backups.
• Instant Availability (IA): Rapid read/write access to SQL Server, Exchange, and Oracle – including mailboxes and tables – at any recovery point. And IA can clone an Oracle database, of any size, in minutes.
• Express Recovery Server (XRS): Fast recovery and application access from virtual volume snapshots stored on almost any kind of disk storage. XRS enables businesses to leverage existing disk infrastructure and investments.

Additionally, the Syncsort Backup Express disk-to-disk-to-tape solution provides archiving to tape, with automated failover to tape in the event recovery from disk is interrupted.

Syncsort Backup Express stands above the rest by combining these unmatched capabilities fully integrated in a robust end-to-end data protection solution.