Remote Backup
StorGuard Remote Backup Services offers:
- Risk Reduction – The vulnerability to your organization caused by incomplete backups is virtually eliminated.
- Effective Management – Removing the tedious task of managing the backup and restoration process, to give management more time to spend on other company issues.
- Disaster Contingency - The StorGuard service has inherent disaster recovery capabilities, thereby allowing your company to continue in spite of unforeseen disasters.
- Reduced Restoration Times – Reduced restoration times for accidentally deleted files, making your end user more productive.
- Ease of Future Planning - The StorGuard service simply grows as your data volumes increase.
- Cost Effectiveness - The StorGuard service is priced competitively with hardware/software offerings trying to address the same issues.
- No Capital Outlay - The StorGuard service is charged on a monthly ‘utility’ basis. Pricing is stated below.
- Reduced Backup Times – Backup times are dramatically reduced through advanced software functionality, reducing the actual amount of data transmitted to the Storage Guardian.
Benefits
- Automated, Unattended Backup Process - Ensuring that data held on PC’s NT/NetWare ® files servers, and application/database servers is securely backed up and transferred offsite via the DS-Client software.
- Offsite Backup Data – Data is transferred offsite to our secure Data Center via a TCP/IP connection.
- Data Compression Technology – Technology, including common file elimination and delta blocking, maximize data transfer over the line connection.
- AES Encryption – Encryption occurs at customer’s site prior to transmission offsite.
- Security Increase - If dedicated leased line is chosen, then incorporated additional link level security is increased.
- Firewall Function - Must be incorporated or enabled within the StorGuard, offering to protect the customer and Storage Guardian network from unauthorized access.
- Easy to use Interface - StorGuard provides an easy to use interface that simplifies the backup & recovery process and provides detailed information about scheduled operations.
- Centralized Configurations – Configurations of the StorGuard DS-Client software enable a network administrator/IT manager to specify exactly what data is to be backed up, ensuring investment is not wasted by backing up unauthorized or unnecessary information.
- Evaluation Client - Enables accurate size of data volumes and transfer rates prior to full implementation of service.
- Multiple Backup Versions – Multiple versions of files are retained on disk, for immediate online restore. The number of versions is user-defined.
- Backup Data for Legal/Audit Purposes - Backup data required for legal or audit purposes can be held archived upon request.
- No Tapes - Backup data can easily be selected and restored online without the need to locate and identify tapes.
- 24 hour Response Team - Storage Guardian’s response team is on a 24 hour standby to support major data recovery by delivering requested backup data to the customer site.
- Portable DS system - In the event of a major customer site disaster, a portable DS-System is delivered to the customer site or to a specified disaster recovery site.
- Professionally Certified – StorGuard is a Microsoft® and Novell® certified solution.
Security
For the security of customers’ backup data, the DS-Client encrypts every file it sends with an encryption key provided by the customer. The files are stored and remain encrypted on the DS-System at all times. The decryption process occurs during the restore operation of the backup data by the StorGuard DS-Client. This ensures that all backup data transferred and stored outside the customer location is always encrypted. The StorGuard uses a 256 AES encryption algorithm and can be configured with two encryption keys: Private and Account Management.
Monitoring Backups
In addition to the Customer Administrator Console, a web-based interface from the StorGuard presents daily management reports on the status of the StorGuard service. This web interface includes: a summary of scheduled backup, highlights of any errors that may have occurred, and statistical information detailing the quantity of the back up. The Customer Administrator Console provides extensive monitoring and reporting capabilities for customer administrators. This includes detailed logs of backup activity, and detailed logs of all files backed up, error reports and audit trails for all backup and restore activity.
Online backup service Price
| Online Backup Services Pricing | Monthly (GB) |
|---|---|
| Remote Backup Services up to 1GB | $6.00 |
| Additional Cost above 1 Compressed GB | $5.50 |
| SS-Client Backup Software | Included |
| MS Exchange & Outlook (Message Level Restore) | Included |
| Oracle Plug In (Open & Hot Backups) | Included |
| Local Restore Option | Included |
