Topics
• Who Needs Data Protection?
• Evaluating Backup Software
• Three Backup Software Types
– Legacy
– Online
– near-Continuous (CDP)
What Do We Protect Data From?
• Server Failure
– Hard Drives Stop Spinning,
Storage Controllers Corrupt Data, etc
• Accidental Drop or Delete
– The “Arggg Sh***!” factor
• Security Compromise
– Server, Database, Application
• Business or Government Regulation
– Historical Archiving Rules
– HIPPA, EU Data Archiving Regulations
Evaluating Backup Software
• Archive Management?
– Does application easily manage historical archives
• Archive Type?
– People either need disk or tape or both
• Supported Environment
– What O/S’s Virtualization is supported?
– What Applications Are Supported?
• Data Lost in a Disaster
– Minutes? Hours? Days?
• Backup Window Length
– Minutes? Hours? Days?
• File or Block Based?
Evaluating Backup Software
Continued
• Online Backup (Point-in-time Snapshots)
– Consistent snapshot of running system
• Ease of Use
– Graphical User Interface, Web Interface, etc
• Bare-Metal Restore
– Bring servers back to life
• Backup Method
– Full
– Incremental
– Virtual Full Backups
• Cross Platform?
– Manage Linux Backups in Windows?
– Manage Windows Backups in Linux?
Backup Type: Legacy
Method
Full / Incremental
Data Lost In Disaster
Days
File or Block Based Backup? File
Backup Window Length
Hours or Days
Online Backup (Snapshots)
No
Bare-Metal Restore
Not Possible
Backup Window
= Time to Read All Data
Tar
Backup Type: Online
LVM Snapshots
Live State
Method
Full / Incremental
Data Lost In Disaster
Days
File or Block Based Backup?
Depends
Online Backup (Snapshots)
Yes
Bare-Metal Restore
Possible
Backup Window
= Time to Read All Data
Backup Type: Continuous Data Protection ®
R1Soft is ONLY near-Continuous
Backup for Linux and Windows
Method
Virtual Full
Data Lost In Disaster
Minutes
File or Block Based Backup? Block
Online Backup (Snapshots)
Yes
Bare-Metal Restore
Yes
Backup Window
= Only Time to Read Deltas
R1Soft at a Glance
• Cross Platform Backup & Recovery
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Linux & Windows servers & MySQL databases
• near-Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
– Fast backup scheduled e.g. every 15 minutes / hour
• Over 85,000 servers licensed
• Used by major hosting companies
• Division of BBS Technologies
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Based in Houston, Texas
Systems management software for Windows & Linux
165+ staff , 4,000 customers
49th Fastest Growing Technology company in US (Deloitte)
4th largest software company in Houston
One CDP Server to Many Agents
•CDP Server to Agent Authentication using RSA Keys
•Compression
•Blowfish and RSA Encryption over wire
•MD5 Check Sum Verification At all Failure Points
•Bare-Metal Restore with Live CD, Remote Restore, PXE Network Boot
•Hosting Control Panel Integration
•Provisioning and Billing API
•Command Line Interface
•Easy To Use Web Interface
R1Soft Implementation
Backup Load Usually Disappears with R1Soft
(Server Load Avg. Dropped From 3.0 to 0.0 )
Nightly Plesk Backup (tar & rsync) V.S. Hourly R1Soft CDP
|tar
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rsync | R1Soft CDP |
Archive Many Virtual Full Backups
in R1Soft Disk Safe ®
Manage All Backups Centrally
Recover Files or Volumes
Parallels Integration
• Plesk
– Control Panel Account Level Restores
• Parallels and R1Soft Partnership
– Technology Integration
Questions and Comments
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