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REMOTE BACKUP AND DISASTER RECOVERY
How would your School recover if you lost your data?
How would you recover in the event of fire, flood or human error deleting some or even all of your data? Are you confident that your current backup method has worked? When was the last time you tested a restore of your files? As backup media such as tape, CD and external hard drives are now considered to be unreliable, more and more Schools are turning to Oakford to ensure their data is safe.
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Traditional backup methods
Traditional backup methods such as tape drive, USB pen, external hard drives and CD/DVDs have proven to be time consuming, expensive and unreliable data backup solutions usually causing the following issues:
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Responsibility for a member of staff to change the backup media and remove it from school
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Risk of storing data on degradable media
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Data backed up to an easy to lose, unencrypted source
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Backups not easily restore tested
What is Remote Backup?
Remote Backup takes a copy of your data, encrypts it and then transfers it to a UK data centre via a secure “SSL” connection. A second copy is then sent to a secondary UK data centre that is in a different geographical location and email confirmation sent back to you once completed. In the event of fire, theft, human error or hardware malfunction you can be safe in the knowledge that all of your important data has been safely backed up and can be restored easily. In summary Oakford Remote Backup will provide the following essential features:
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A fully automated and secure backup each night
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No need for staff to change tapes, disks etc.
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No need for staff to take external backup media home such as a tape
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No labelling of media or cleaning tapes required
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Easily test restoring backups from any computer
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An email is sent to you as soon as the backup is complete
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Backups are kept in two certified, secure UK datacentres
How can Oakford help with Disaster Recovery?
Oakford remote backup can provide your school with a basic disaster recovery solution by securely backing up all of your files, emails and databases each night. This provides peace of mind that you can recover your data from any disaster or failure, however the restore of the data and/or reconfiguration of new equipment for the data to reside on may take longer than you would like depending on the type of data and available resources.
For schools that need to recover quickly or even near real-time, our ProActive and Real-Time DR solutions can help.
ProActive Disaster Recovery
Our Proactive DR solution will take daily, encrypted snapshots of your servers and store them in our UK data centres. In the event of a disaster, you can not only restore your data but all of the servers including their configuration by restoring a small number of large files. In most cases this will reduce the total downtime following a disaster by 50%. Combined with remote backup, for the restore of individual files instead of an entire system, this will provide your school with a simple, cost effective disaster recovery solution.
Real-Time Disaster Recovery
ProActive DR takes point in time snapshots of your servers each day and backs them up to our secure UK data centres. In the event of a disaster a school with ProActive DR will be able to purchase some new server hardware, configure Hyper V or VMware then restore the latest copy of the virtual server machines to the new hardware. This means a faster restore of your computer system with minimal configuration required. However in certain scenarios this will still be time that a school cannot afford.
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Real-Time DR does not require you to restore anything, simply invoke DR over the phone and your computer system will become live in our secure cloud facility and will be as up to date as possible (a few minutes behind the original system), enabling you to continue working at your premises if you still have an Internet connection, or from another location if required.