E-Vaulting
Electronic vaulting,
or online backup is a secure, reliable, disciplined method by which
a company’s mission critical data is backed up via the Internet
or dedicated transmission line to a remote server in a highly secure
regional data center.
Utilizing industry-leading software, our service
recognizes and captures changes to files since the last backup session,
strips out only the changes from the files (at the block level),
encrypts the data for enhanced security, and compresses it to minimize
transmission time. The encrypted data is then sent over the Internet
or private telecommunication lines to highly secure offsite regional
data center.
Customers schedule
automated, unattended backup sessions according to their own needs.
Since the only segments of the data that are sent are the portions
that have changed since the last backup, even in the highly unlikely
event of someone being able to break into the code, they would find
a few unintelligible bits of data – as opposed to an entire file,
which is the common occurrence with tape backup.
You push the
data to us so we don't see it nor can we manipulate it in any way.
You have the only software key. It is secure since you can choose
encryption prior to pushing the data to our vault. It is compressed
prior to sending the data, typically 2 to 1, unless you have image
files, which do not compress. We support open files with Open File
Manager software. You get an e-mail daily telling you your files
were successfully backed up and the listings of your files.
Retrievals can be accomplished online, realtime from the customer’s place of
business or remotely.
Your invoice
is based on compressed amount of data, and what is stored on our
vault in terms of gigabytes, at the end of a month. There is no
maximum number of gigabytes you are allowed to store. You can control
the cost by not backing up your operating system or application
shell and by backing up only your mission critical files and controlling
your own retention schedule.
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