Backup Direct™ online backup ensures business servers are backed up, with systems and data secured and stored off-site ready for recovery on demand.

Unlike hardware-based solutions such as tape and hard-drives, online backup is a fully automated process free from the risks associated with human error, device failure, loss or damage.  Online backup makes recovering data and systems simple and quick, providing:

• Data storage in dual data vaults, geographically separate and synchronized for failover capacity
• End-to-end encryption standards ‘in-flight and off-site' with 256 bit AES / 448-bit Blowfish and SSL channel security
• Rapid recovery online or via physical media restore devices
• Archiving from 30 days up to seven years
• 24/7 manned and monitored data vault protection

Continual Data Protection for key databases including Microsoft Exchange

Once you select what you want to protect whether its individual folders or the entire system, the service ensures the data is secured off-site as it changes and archived for up to seven years. The solution manages complex database backups including Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server ensuring transactional integrity:

• Continual Data Protection - snapshots up to every 15-minutes
• Database integration to ensure transactional integrity and robust restores
• Optional message level restores for Microsoft Exchange
• Support for backing up common applications like Sage, QuickBooks, Microsoft Dynamics, SIMS...
• Windows XP backup, Windows Vista backup, Linux backup, UNIX backup, Mac backup, Novell backup

Rapid recovery with on-site caching and sophisticated bandwidth management

Servers often store large volumes of data which can present management challenges both in terms of backup and disaster recovery. Backup Direct online backup includes powerful tools to ensure effective performance even with limited bandwidth availability:

• Initial media-based ‘seeding' of bulk data
• Delta block backup - sending only small sub-file level changes
• Time-of-day, day-of-week bandwidth usage control
• On site caching of recent backups for disk-speed restores
• Delta block restores to make large database recovery faster
• Physical media device shipment for bulk restore

Central web-based management, reporting and alerting

Backup Direct online backup allows management of any number of servers from a single location.  Backups can be configured, restores initiated and reports run, making the management of server backup simple and reliable. Alerts can be set to notify of potential problems with backups or the results of restores, providing confidence that the service is working correctly:

• Web-based control of one or multiple servers
• Alerting of missed backups, data volumes, most recent backups, bandwidth usage...
• Scheduling of server data deletion and server de-commissioning
• Remote initiation of backups and restores
• Control of administrator permissions by server and authority level

Simple file retrieval or disaster recovery with stand-by servers

The vast majority of restores performed are file or folder based i.e. a user has lost an important document and needs it back without delay. Online backup provides the perfect solution to this day to day challenge.  Within minutes of a file being lost, a restore can begin directly from the vaults of a version that is only a few minutes old...

When a whole system is lost - because of physical damage, building or power loss - or because of logical corruption and virus, the challenges are different. You may be able to retrieve data from the backup vaults, but where will it be recovered to and how will your staff access it?

Backup Direct online backup provides powerful disaster recovery features that allow you to recover to replacement hardware and access replacement servers remotely:

• Full system state recovery feature
• Hardware independent recovery capability
• Optional stand-by virtual servers - with varying service level agreements
• Remote access via VPN, Terminal Servers or Citrix

A fully managed service from Backup Direct

As a fully managed service, online backup requires little or no investment in hardware or software. You can begin protecting server data within hours and pay a simple and flexible monthly subscription fee.