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

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Backup Type: Online

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

Live StateLVM Snapshots

Backup Type: Continuous Data Protection ®

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 is ONLY near-Continuous Backup for Linux and Windows

R1Soft at a Glance

• Cross Platform Backup & Recovery– 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

– 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 and rsync | R1Soft CDP |

Archive Many Virtual Full Backupsin 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

David Wartell can be reached at founder@r1soft.com

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