Zero-Window Backup & Restore 

The Challenge:

1. Completing all required backups each day.
2. Preventing backup operations from degrading application availability and performance.
3. Reducing recovery times to minutes instead of hours or days while ensuring complete data integrity.
4. Quickly rolling back application data to previous points-in-time.
5. Implementing disk-to-disk-to-tape backup strategies.

The Solution:

Use StoreAge multiView to create instant read/write disk-based snapshots of production data, use snapshots to backup data to disk or tape without impacting production servers, and use snapshots to perform rapid online restores to previous points-in-time.

The Benefits:

Adding snapshot-enabled backup and restore capabilities benefits an organization in multiple areas, including:

Business Impact:

Maximizes uptime, availability and performance of key business applications
Improves business continuity by enabling rapid resumption of operations after unexpected events

Operational Impact:

• Eliminates the “backup window” – backups can occur at any time while production applications remain online
• Reduces the costs and risks associated with data loss:
  • Minimizes the amount of data at risk at any given time by creating frequent snapshots
  • Reduces data recovery time to minutes instead of hours or days
• Uses zero CPU cycles on production servers
• Enables full backups to be completed each day
• Allows rapid restores from disk, to previous points-in-time
• Integrates with existing backup software and scripts for fully automated backups

Financial Impact:

• Revenue generating applications remain online and fully available during backups
• Defers or eliminates the need to upgrade the backup infrastructure to accommodate data growth

Zero-Window Backup & Rapid Restore With StoreAge multiView

• Backups can occur at any time of the day, using instant read/write disk-based snapshots of production data
• Production systems remain online and fully available during backup. Use zero CPU cycles on production servers.
• Online snapshots reduce recovery times to minutes, and enable restores of application data to previous points-in-time.
• Compatible with existing backup software, servers and storage.