Data Backup | Disaster Recovery
What is this Service?
RedRock’s Backup and Disaster Recovery Service (BDR) relieves your organization from the headaches of server backup. Toss the tapes, don’t worry about checking whether the backup job failed on a daily basis and no longer concern yourself with offsite backup tape storage and the risk of data loss.
For a low monthly fee, we provide a network attached backup appliance (NAB) with offsite data storage (starting at 500GB/month). Your data will be backed up every 15 minutes, encrypted and sent to the backup appliance locally at your site. At midnight, the encrypted backup data for the day is sent offsite for safe keeping.
Where do We Start?
We will survey the amount of data on your Windows servers and the number of servers to be backed up. This will determine the size of the backup appliance needed and the monthly cost. We then install our backup agents on each Windows server and obtain an encrypted base image: a snapshot of each server at that time.
The base image is copied to a removable drive and shipped to our colocation site near Washington DC where it is loaded on large storage arrays.
How Does the Backup Work?
Every hour of every day, your Windows servers will backup to our BDR appliance. At 12:00am, the appliance will remove redundant data from these hourly backup images, then ship the day’s backups to the colocation site over your Internet connection. This data is copied to another colocation site in Colorado. So your data will reside, fully encrypted, at three locations at all times (the local appliance, Washington and Colorado).
I Need to Restore a File I Accidentally Deleted…
No problem. Simply give us a call or open a trouble ticket and we’ll have your files or folders back within minutes, no charge.
What if I Have a Disaster?
If one of your servers fails, we can virtualize the failed server on the BDR appliance in less than 30 minutes. The BDR will then take on the roll of the failed system, transparent to end users. Once the failed system is operational, we can restore all data, even if the hardware has changed.
If your main location has a disaster and all systems are inaccessible, we can ship an appliance anywhere in the US, fully loaded with your organization’s data within 48 hours. Don’t worry, there’s no risk of the data falling into the wrong hands, it’s all AES-256 bit encrypted.
How Do I Know if There’s a Problem?
Every day, the backup chain is verified for consistency. If there’s a problem, a trouble ticket will automatically be created within 24 hours allowing us to take immediate corrective action. Additionally, test virtualizations are performed on a monthly basis to ensure the servers can be fully restored in the event of a disaster. You will get monthly reports on backup activity.
Onsite Appliance Options:
BDR 1100TS G2
- Tower Appliance
- Up to 3 Windows Servers Supported for Backup
- 24×7x365 Monitoring with Daily Backup Chain Verification
- Monthly Test Virtualization Included
- Data Storage Volume: 900 GB
- 500 GB, AES 256 Encrypted Offsite Storage Included
- Additional Offsite Storage at $0.89/GB/month
- Includes the Ability to Virtualize a failed server (appliance will be configured to look like the failed unit)
- Appliance included in the monthly service charge
BDR 2100TS/RS G2
- Tower or 2U Rack Mount Server (your choice)
- Up to 8 Windows Servers Supported for Backup
- 24×7x365 Monitoring with Daily Backup Chain Verification
- Monthly Test Virtualizaion
- Data Storage Volume: 2 Terabytes (3 x 1TB RAID 5)
- 1TB of Encrypted Offsite Storage Included in monthly service
- Additional Offsite Storage at $0.89/GB/month
- Includes the Ability to Virtualize a failed server (appliance will be configured to look like the failed unit)
- Appliance included in the monthly service charge
BDR 3100RS G2
- 2U Rack Mount Server
- Up to 16 Windows Servers Supported for Backup
- 24×7x365 Monitoring with Daily Backup Chain Verification
- Data Storage Volume: 4.5 Terabytes ( 1TB x 6 RAID 5)
- 2TB of Encrypted Offsite Storage Included in monthly service
- Additional Offsite Storage at $0.89/GB/month
- Includes the Ability to Virtualize a failed server (appliance will be configured to look like the failed unit)
- Appliance included in the monthly service charge
We also offer several other cost effective backup and disaster recovery technologies, including disk-to-disk between locations.
Call us today for a free consultation or to learn more about today’s backup and disaster recovery technologies.