The Challenge:

Handle many-to-one backup and restore situations, making a remote snapshot-in-time available at all times in case recovery is required, providing hot-backup. Remote monitoring is required, allowing for backup and restore operations from any location.

Off-site Backup Architecture

RDS allows fast, scheduled replication to any remote location. It can be controlled and monitored from any location. Offsite File Replication based backup, makes data instantly available for recovery. Its asynchronous replication keeps production data up-to-date on the backup server.

The automatic backup process runs unattended, asynchronously, as a service, simultaneously backing up multiple servers of different platforms (Unix and Windows), bypassing offline media I/O devices serial approach problem.

Each backup-transfer cycle time is kept to a minimum using RDS's Comparative Snapshot Technology (CST^TM) where only the changes are transferred. RDS also supplies full control over the files being replicated or excluded from the process, ranging from entire volumes, folders, to individual files. Using Differential Transfer options, RDS supports block level updates.

RDS guarantees accurate replication down to the permissions of a directory or a file and a secured data transfer - encrypted and authenticated. Other features include robust security model, control over network bandwidth usage, transparent compression of data sent over the network, and rich reporting capabilities.

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