Advanced Data Protection and Disaster Recovery

Advanced Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
from Syncsort

Research Report

Description:
Despite the many new data protection technologies that have come to market in recent years, backup and recovery remains an enduring problem for many organizations. The need to improve backup and recovery processes is driving increased interest in technologies such as disk-to-disk backup systems, remote backup solutions and data reduction. With increasingly complex data protection environments, many organizations express interest in turning to one vendor for all of their data protection needs, but also recognize that they may need to select best-of-breed products to fully address their requirements.

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Backup Express (BEX) Advanced Recovery provides block-level incremental (BLI) technology integrated with NetApp SnapVault for protection of Windows, Linux and Solaris systems. BEX identifies blocks that have changed between backups and then transfers only those changed blocks to secondary storage. After an initial base backup, only blocks that have changed since the previous backup are transferred using NetApp snapshots (SnapVault). Advanced Recovery accesses the changed blocks directly, providing virtual full backups while drastically reducing the amount of data sent over the network and stored on disk. As a result there is virtually no server CPU or network traffic impact during restore operations.

To better understand the data reduction capability of Syncsort BLI technology, consider a PowerPoint presentation created by an end-user. When the user modifies a slide in the presentation and re-saves it to disk, the BEX client will only transmit the blocks of the PowerPoint file that have changed. With traditional file-based backup, the entire file would be flagged as changed and backed up in its entirety—again.

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