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Business Backup Solutions

Offering Off-Site Backup Options to Protect Your Business Data

Data loss can be devastating to your business. Studies show that the costs associated with server downtime and resulting data loss range from thousands or millions of dollars per hour (Source: ActionFront Data Recovery Labs). In fact, 60 percent of companies that lose their data close their business within 6 months of a data loss disaster, and 72 percent of businesses that suffer major data loss are gone within 24 months. That's why so many businesses today are employing data backup and recovery solutions to minimize their risk and ensure business continuity.

Overview

Wheeler's now offers an on-demand backup solution that combines our world-class data center technologies with R1Soft Continuous Data Protection™ (CDP) for Linux or Windows.

Wheeler's "all-in-one" Dedicated Backup Server hosted solution is customized for your business and can support capacity levels for up to 1.5 TB of backup capacity. The interface is simple-to-manage, incredibly powerful and allows you to schedule backup down to the minute, while efficiently managing bandwidth and CPU to save time and disk space.

Wheeler's Dedicated Backup Server solution gives you our lowest cost-per-Gigabyte backup, enabling you to step up to high capacity backup at a price you can afford.

Key Benefits

Bare-Metal Disaster Recovery - Restore servers directly from disk-based backup. Unlike traditional backup software, there is no need to first partition your drive and install the operating system.

High Performance - Sector-based backups increase throughput and reduce overhead. Servers can be fully operational with minimal performance impact during backups. These backups typically can be performed at anytime, even on busy servers.

Small Backup Windows - Only changed-disk sectors are copied between backups. Incremental backups can now be completed in only a few minutes.

Open File Backups - Righteous Backup is a total solution including built-in support for backing up open files. NO 3rd party software is required.

Snapshots - Our technology provides consistent point-in-time system-wide backup images.

Near-Continuous Backups - During normal host operation, the R1Soft CDP Agent retains a journal of disk changes. Incremental backups know which sectors on the disk have changed before the backup operation even starts. This eliminates the need for file-by-file or block-by-block comparisons for every backup.

Designed with Resellers in Mind - You can delegate control to different administrators on a server-by-server basis.

Remote Administration - Software can be completely controlled offsite using a Web-based interface.

Compression - Incremental sector-based backups ignore unused portions of the disk and copy only the disk sectors that have changed since the last backup. When used with traditional compression, this reduces backup storage by as much as 90 percent compared with a traditional system-wide, file-by-file backup.

End-to-end strong encryption - Using RSA keys, data is continuously encrypted while in storage and during network transmission. Decryption during a restore is possible only when the encryption key holder enters their pass phrase.

Data Integrity - During backup and restore, data is verified using MD5 checksums.

Key Features

  • Backup Windows or Linux servers
  • Pre-configured in reliable RAID5
  • On-site and off-site backups
  • Keeps up to 100 recovery points a day
  • Schedule backups how you want them and R1Soft's queuing system takes care of the rest

Technical Overview

With the easy-to-use CDP web interface, you can schedule backups down to the minute, and restore specific files and folders. You can also perform bare metal restores, which provides the functionality of a restore from a specific point-in-time along with a "snapshot" of the backup. With this functionality, you can restore a file prior to a critical error or even restore a complete volume image after a catastrophic hardware failure.

CDP server backup software from R1Soft works at the block level. It bypasses the file system, which allows for maximum efficiency and performance during both backup and restore. By performing the backup at the block level, your backups include all information on the disk, along with partition tables and drive formatting. If you need to restore, you have full data integrity enabled, along with seamless integration of the backed up device upon restore for true disaster recovery.

By providing file-by-file restore functionality to your control panel users, this self-managed environment gives you the flexibility to deploy your backups in a way that is right for your business, while being easy to use. Includes dedicated backup as an add-on feature for your dedicated reselling clients or you can also set up a reseller backup program. The Planet's dedicated backup enables you to focus on your business rather than on backup infrastructure.

FAQ

What is CDP?
CDP is an acronym for continuous data protection. It is a backup method that tracks changes as they are being written to the disk and flagged on the next scheduled incremental backup. This means your first backup will consist of all used blocks on your device, and every backup following will include only changed data blocks.

How do I use Bare Metal Recovery?
You can complete a bare metal restore within 20 minutes to one hour. The process involves submitting a ticket to have the live environment CD placed in your server. Our data center technicians then boot into the restore environment, setup networking and prepare the server for the restore. Once this is complete, you can then go into the CDP Server Web interface and choose the recovery point you require. Then you just simply click, and you're on your way to a working system.

What is RAID5, can I select other RAID levels?
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is a data storage schema that replicates and or divides data across multiple disks. It is used to maximize performance as well as increase data reliability. RAID 5 stripes data across multiple disks with parity information on each device. With this solution, you are able to lose one drive without a data loss. When the failed drive is replaced, the information on the remaining two drives is used to rebuild the data and parity information for the new drive. This is used in our dedicated backup solution for an extra layer of data protection in case of hard drive failure.