Mitigate risk and lower costs by letting your disaster recovery replica server double as a server for performing an offsite backup. This informative white paper will teach you how...
Centralized and Offsite Backup Mitigate Risk and Lower Costs - Let Your DR Replica Perform Offsite Backups December 2005
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Contents The Value Proposition...................................................................................... 1 Description of the Solution ............................................................................... 2 Financial / Executive Impact.........................................................................2 Understanding the Options...........................................................................3 Accelerating Time to Recovery with Minimal Data Loss .....................................3 Validate the replica server environment without disrupting IT production systems3 Utilizing the Replica Server in the Backup Role................................................4 Example Scenario ........................................................................................... 4 Implementing the Solution............................................................................... 7 Other XOsoft Products..................................................................................... 8 Contact Information........................................................................................ 8
The Value Proposition Mitigate risk and lower costs by letting your disaster recovery replica server double as a server for performing an offsite backup. XOsoft's patented Assured Recovery technology combined with state-of-the-art replication allows a backup to be performed on an offsite replica server using the same application-based validation procedures as would occur on the production server, without the additional costs or security risks of transporting the backup to the DR facility. For branch offices, businesses can accrue a double benefit by centralizing the offsite backups of multiple branch offices at a single facility to significantly reduce the need for sophisticated IT support at every location.
Description of the Solution Financial / Executive Impact Disaster recovery and business continuance capabilities are increasingly critical for businesses today. According to a study by accounting firm McGladrey and Pullen, 43% of companies that experience a disaster never re-open and 29% close within two years. Of those that do manage to survive, the long-term financial impact can be tremendous. As Figure 1 illustrates for publicly traded companies, an organization that does not respond effectively to a crisis faces a double penalty in the direct impact of the crisis and in a subsequent crisis of confidence by investors. Figure 1:
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Understanding the Options Your ability to respond effectively to a disaster depends on the depth of protection that your systems offer. For application and data servers, depth of protection essentially means maintaining multiple layers of protection. Maintaining a local backup, for example, lays the foundation for an effective disaster recovery response, but by itself it is inadequate: the restore process is slow, so that recovery times are high; the frequency of backup is low, so that many hours of data may potentially be lost; and having the backup stored locally means that there is no protection from loss of the entire site. Adding an off-site copy of the backup certainly addresses the last limitation, but it only exacerbates the previous two. An offsite backup is only going to be slower to restore and older than an onsite one. In addition, maintaining an offsite backup introduces new costs and risks associated with transporting backup tapes to a secondary location. For companies with multiple sites, even maintaining a local backup can be a significant cost since backups must be managed at each local site individually. It is neither cost-effective to maintain sophisticated IT personnel at every location, nor is it safe to place the burden on non-IT staff for whom performing and verifying backups are unwanted and onerous tasks. As a result, these tasks are as likely to be skipped as not, putting critical corporate data at risk. Accelerating Time to Recovery with Minimal Data Loss Real-time data replication is a mature disaster recover... [download for more]
