Rapid Recovery is the manifestation of an approach referred to as Business Systems Continuity. Unitrends is alone in the industry with this all-in-one systems approach.
Unitrends' Rapid Recovery System is a complete system enabling on/off-site recovery of files, systems and data; not a series of point solutions. The true value of Unitrends' Rapid Recovery System is realized when an organization implements an inclusive strategy that protects its operating systems, applications and supporting data at every point, at both on-site and off-site locations.
Under the Unitrends Rapid Recovery System, clients (servers or desktops) are networked into on-site Unitrends' Data Protection Units™, or DPUs.
Snapshots of these servers' operating systems, complete with passwords, permissions and settings, are routinely taken at user-defined intervals (without the need to first shut down the servers) and sent to the DPUs.
Multiple DPUs, located across campus or across multiple sites, can be linked to an off-site Unitrends Data Protection Vault™, or DPV. The changed DPU data is transmitted automatically, via electronic data vaulting with triple encryption using Unitrends' Secure Data Sync™, to the DPV. Unitrends' Rapid Recovery System enables companies to get back in business at every level, from an individual email or spreadsheet to a complete server. The file or total server is easily recovered from the server protected by the on-site DPU.
While many companies offer this level of file recovery, no other supplier can also use this same system for recovering from a complete server crash due to a hard drive failure, corruption by worms or malware, or recovering from an OS patch which renders a system unbootable.
When the server crashes, it also can be quickly recovered from the DPU in as little as 30 minutes or less. Recovery includes the OS, the applications, and the data...everything required to get "back to business" as quickly as possible, just as it was before the system failed.
More importantly, should an organization's entire site fail, whether from a natural or man-made disaster, the company can recover the operating systems, applications and data in order to quickly resume business functions, since the Unitrends' Rapid Recovery System has been continuously transmitting data to an off-site DPV.
While an organization can benefit from the point purchase of a DPU or DPV, the true value comes from implementing the complete on-site/off-site Rapid Recovery System, delivering a level of business systems continuity to SMEs which was once only available to the largest, wealthiest organizations.
True Disk-to-Disk (D2D) Technology
Unitrends is the only company providing true disk-to-disk backup, bare metal crash recovery, and automated remote disaster recovery capabilities in one complete solution.
Improve Routine Data Backup and Recovery with True D2D Technology
Disk-to-disk (D2D) backup has become the preferred method due to its speed and reliability. When the total cost of operating a D2D system is compared to the hidden costs of a standard tape-based backup system, the return on investment is typically less than twelve months.
When choosing a D2D backup solution, it is important to recognize the different types of D2D. The two main types are "true" D2D and virtual tape library (VTL) D2D.
Most traditional tape-based backup providers have converted to a VTL D2D system because it was the easiest since they didn't have to change their tape-formatted files.
While faster than actual tape, VTL systems are still strapped with the limitations of tape, including sequential access and reliance on a tape header to keep data intact.
Unitrends began supporting D2D in 1993 and quickly realized a better format was needed. Unitrends redesigned their software to support a true D2D direct-access format, while maintaining the ability to support tape formats for customers still using tape.
True D2D allows for multiple backup and recovery operations to simultaneously access the disk directly by using a true file system.
Ensure Computer Systems Can Get Back in Business Quickly
When a computer's main hard drive goes bad, it typically takes hours or days for a computer technician to rebuild the operating system, the application software, reapply all software patches, and reset preferences.
Typically, backup and recovery software only protects data, not the operating system (e.g., Windows), or the applications (e.g., Email, Payroll, ERP, database, etc.).
Unitrends developed Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) in 1989 to enable quick restore of critical systems. Today, Unitrends supports more than twenty operating systems and can typically restore a system to operation in twenty minutes when best practices are followed.
Automate Remote Disaster Recovery Preparation
There are different degrees of disaster ranging from the loss of a critical computer (e.g., hard drive crash) to the loss of all networked computers (e.g., virus), to the loss of an office (e.g., fire), to the destruction of an entire region (e.g., flood, earthquake).
Ideally, disaster recovery preparation involves planning, procedures, and practice. A part of preparation is maintaining a current copy of your critical data and systems off-site for fast restore when needed. Procedures for the restore depend on the tools being used.
Typically, companies have been backing data up to tape and rotating tapes off-site or having a service pick them up. The service can be expensive, not just to take tapes off-site, but also to deliver them when needed. The entire manual process also depends upon a few people. It has built-in delays and relies on a very unreliable media - tape. And yet the penalty for downtime is high. According to IDC, 90% of companies fail within one year of significant data loss.
Unitrends Secure Data Synchronization (SDS) technology can eliminate the manual process of keeping your critical data and systems off-site. Every time your systems are backed up using a Unitrends' DPU, only the changed blocks of data since the last backup are automatically compressed and sent off-site to the DPV, where they are included in a full running master copy of your data. No more manual tape rotation. No more delays in getting access to your data or having tapes picked up and delivered.
Unitrends provides a family of data protection systems, including Data Protection Units™ (DPUs) and Data Protection Vaults™ (DPVs), and solution-centric services to support both the software and hardware components of its True D2D offerings.
The end results are: faster backups, faster restores, and greater storage capacity together with substantial savings per Gb.
