We are all familiar with the need to backup our data with many organisations spending a fortune on software and tape to protect data through backup processes, commonly run at night and protecting specific files and directories, plus databases and email repositories.
A new option is through continual data protector (CDP) using an appliance on each site with local disk storage the solution takes complete disk snapshots of protected servers,desktops or laptops, these are incremental by byte and are then replicated to another site. If you do not have a second site an alternative is a cloud based Disaster Recovery (DR) service maintaining copies of the snapshots for retrieval in the event of a failure.
The data can be recovered when required this could be a single file, a directory or a complete system, with the ability to recover to a new server or virtual machine within 15 minutes, a complete site in around 45 minutes. This will make traditional backup redundant, but is the organisation requires backup to be done the CDP appliance and local client will intercept the backup process and mount a snapshot as a source for the backup taking the need to quiesce services and having no performance impact on the server being backed up.
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