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How Secure Online Backup Works
Benefits | How it Works | Security Features | Data Centres & Network Infrastructure
Technical Architecture & Description
Montal Secure Online Backup Server Edition is a key component of any enterprise backup solution. It ensures that all servers backup data automatically over the network.
Firstly, a full backup is made of the identified data set, compressed, and transmitted to the Storage Platform. Proprietary Snapshot technology allows for large initial data backups.
An incremental patch backup is then executed that sends only the binary changes made to data files and then copies the data to the remote server.
The backup works over any TCP/IP network. The administrator can access the data over the corporate Intranet, direct dial up or from anywhere in the world via the Internet.
All backed up data is stored on highly redundant Storage Platforms, using RAID5 file servers, in IBM secure Data Centres, which are located in disaster recovery buildings owned and run by IBM Business Continuity & Recovery Services.
The primary Storage Platforms, are used for processing backups and act as the primary data store; thereafter the data replication takes place every 15 minutes and is transferred (via a Private Network) to a second remote site, otherwise known as the Mirror Storage Platform, thus providing the highest level of redundancy for customer data.
Software Components
Attix5 Backup Professional Server Edition - Client Agent
An, easy to use, Attix5 Server Edition client agent is installed on each server. The administrator will then choose an encryption key and ensure that the correct files and folders have been selected for backup. The Client Agent then automatically schedules backups according to the policies set up by the administrator.
Remote servers will automatically detect network connections and backup whilst online. The Client Agent is a 100% Java application and, together with the correct JRE (Java Runtime Environment), can be installed onto most operating systems.
Attix5 Backup Professional Server Edition - Database Agent
Backup Professional Server Edition supports most popular databases and applications. The Server Edition offers seamless integration with these databases and applications and enables online operations that do not eliminate end user access to data - through the backup of locked files. The ever-growing list of agents currently includes MS Exchange, MS SQL Server, Lotus Domino, Sybase ASE, Oracle, and GroupWise.
Attix5 Backup Desktop & Laptop Edition
Desktop & Laptop Edition (D&L) is a secure, automated backup system that intelligently backups critical data to secure, fully mirrored, offsite storage platforms in separate locations, ensuring that data is safe, secure and is available anytime, anywhere via the WebAccess interface.
