Topics Who Needs Data Protection? Evaluating Backup Software Three Backup Software Types –Legacy –Online –near-Continuous (CDP)

What Do We Protect Data From? Server Failure –Hard Drives Stop Spinning, Storage Controllers Corrupt Data, etc Accidental Drop or Delete –The “Arggg Sh***!” factor Security Compromise –Server, Database, Application Business or Government Regulation –Historical Archiving Rules –HIPPA, EU Data Archiving Regulations

Evaluating Backup Software Archive Management ? –Does application easily manage historical archives Archive Type? –People either need disk or tape or both Supported Environment –What O/S’s Virtualization is supported? –What Applications Are Supported? Data Lost in a Disaster –Minutes? Hours? Days? Backup Window Length –Minutes? Hours? Days? File or Block Based?

Evaluating Backup Software Continued Online Backup (Point-in-time Snapshots) –Consistent snapshot of running system Ease of Use –Graphical User Interface, Web Interface, etc Bare-Metal Restore –Bring servers back to life Backup Method –Full –Incremental –Virtual Full Backups Cross Platform? –Manage Linux Backups in Windows? –Manage Windows Backups in Linux?

Backup Type: Legacy MethodFull / Incremental Data Lost In DisasterDays File or Block Based Backup?File Backup Window LengthHours or Days Online Backup (Snapshots)No Bare-Metal RestoreNot Possible Backup Window = Time to Read All Data Tar

Backup Type: Online MethodFull / Incremental Data Lost In DisasterDays File or Block Based Backup?Depends Online Backup (Snapshots)Yes Bare-Metal RestorePossible Backup Window = Time to Read All Data Live State LVM Snapshots

Backup Type: Continuous Data Protection ® MethodVirtual Full Data Lost In DisasterMinutes File or Block Based Backup?Block Online Backup (Snapshots)Yes Bare-Metal RestoreYes Backup Window = Only Time to Read Deltas R1Soft is ONLY near-Continuous Backup for Linux and Windows

R1Soft at a Glance Cross Platform Backup & Recovery – Linux & Windows servers & MySQL databases near-Continuous Data Protection (CDP) –Fast backup scheduled e.g. every 15 minutes / hour Over 85,000 servers licensed Used by major hosting companies Division of BBS Technologies –Based in Houston, Texas –Systems management software for Windows & Linux –165+ staff, 4,000 customers –49th Fastest Growing Technology company in US (Deloitte) –4th largest software company in Houston

One CDP Server to Many Agents CDP Server to Agent Authentication using RSA Keys Compression Blowfish and RSA Encryption over wire MD5 Check Sum Verification At all Failure Points Bare-Metal Restore with Live CD, Remote Restore, PXE Network Boot Hosting Control Panel Integration Provisioning and Billing API Command Line Interface Easy To Use Web Interface

R1Soft Implementation

Backup Load Usually Disappears with R1Soft (Server Load Avg. Dropped From 3.0 to 0.0 ) Nightly Plesk Backup (tar & rsync) V.S. Hourly R1Soft CDP |tar and rsync |R1Soft CDP |

Archive Many Virtual Full Backups in R1Soft Disk Safe ®

Manage All Backups Centrally

Recover Files or Volumes

Parallels Integration Plesk –Control Panel Account Level Restores Parallels and R1Soft Partnership –Technology Integration

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