Backup Services
Layered protection against and for Total Catastrophic Failure.
There are some disaster situations from which an organization cannot recover using only local redundancy systems. Orange County Computer, Inc trained, certified technical staff can assist you and your company with fail over and data integrity if an event leading to a total catastrophic failure should occur. From planning and restoring off site relocation of secondary failover infrastructure for disaster site to Backup of critical systems and Data recovery, Orange County Computer, Inc. is your disaster recovery solution.
Off Site Standby:
A secondary location where in the event of Earthquake, Fire etc. leads to no access to organizations primary location. Often called disaster site.
Orange County Computer, Inc can assist in planning an Off Site Standby for your infrastructure including critical systems: Duplicate Hardware, Servers, and most recent critical data backups, thereby reducing downtime from months to mere hours.
Backup:
Loss of data can happen in many ways wither it be a virus infection, bad media (drives, tapes, etc.) or power failure and spikes; a good backup solution should be in place to prevent against critical data loss. Orange County Computer, Inc can plan and implement a reliable backup solution with little or no end user intervention thereby protecting critical data while not interrupting work flow leading to better performance and increased savings due to lowered total cost of ownership.
The benefits of using Orange County Computer, Inc Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN) solution.
To all companies, data is a vital resource for business operations. Protecting data from corruption, user error, hardware failure, theft or site disaster is widely recognized to be a critical requirement for information systems and data management.
For decades, tape-based backup and restore technologies have been the primary mechanisms for protecting data from corruption or loss. However, managing many server-based tape backups in a LAN (Local Area Network) can become a problem as small and medium-size businesses grow. With each additional server brought online to increase storage and production capacity, an additional tape drive must be directly attached to provide backup protection, which drives up equipment costs and overwhelms server administrator resources.
Is there a less-expensive way to simplify management and improve backup operations? Yes. Orange County Computer, Inc Network-attached storage (NAS) or Storage Area Network solution (SAN) delivers a more efficient and effective way to protect data by providing a network-based centralized backup model. Orange County Computer, Inc controls the backup processes of all the clients and servers providing centralized disk based storage. This centralized networked approach reduces the amount of equipment required for backup operations and, in turn, lowers the management costs of backup administration.
Orange County Computer, Inc Network Attached Storage (NAS) or Storage Area Network (SAN) are the best choice for backup operations in the following three scenarios:
- Client backups.
- Server backups.
- Remote replication.
Consolidation of backup equipment:
With storage attached to the network rather than directly to the server, it’s no longer necessary to attach a tape device to each server for backups. This reduces labor and costs of tape backup equipment.
Streamlined backup management:
Using Orange County Computer, Inc NAS or SAN solution to control the backup and restore processes simplifies management by centralizing backup operations. Server administrators save valuable time since they no longer have to go to each individual machine to execute backups. Using a Web-based interface, Orange County Computer, Inc can schedule the NAS or SAN system to back up all servers to off-site storage, eliminating any data conflicts between servers and providing better failover against catastrophic failure.
Effective management and workflow:
All backups are scheduled and controlled through Orange County Computer, Inc NAS or SAN solution. Data can be backed up from the NAS or San to off-site storage when network traffic is minimal and is fully automated.
Reduced backup time:
Disk-to-disk backups with Orange County Computer, Inc NAS or SAN solution are faster than disk to tape, reducing the backup window time. When backed-up data must be frequently accessed, disk-to-disk restores are much less time consuming than restores from tape. With a SAN solution this is accomplished even faster due to the speed of Fiber Optic performance.
As businesses grow, the amount of data that requires storage and protection will increase dramatically. At the same time, the window of time during which data can be backed up without having a negative impact on business operations has decreased. These factors make the server administrator’s job of storing and protecting data fundamentally more challenging. Incorporating an Orange County Computer, Inc NAS or SAN solution into backup operations streamlines management operations, lowers the total cost of ownership and offers a better performing backup solution in the form of disk-to-disk backups.
Glossary of terms:
LAN (Local Area Network) – A physical location where all nodes or PC’s, Laptops, Servers and appliances are linked securely together by a common Network. A simplified LAN would consist of one Server, several PC’s, a Router, Switch and Ethernet cable linking the devices together. In contrast a WAN (Wide Area Network) utilizes the Internet to link two or more LAN’s together.
Fail Over – Utilizes redundant systems. In the event that one system fails and secondary system is in place to insure availability of resources.
NAS (Network Attached Storage) – Storage with redundant disks for failover that is directly attached to the LAN via IP Address rather than attached to a single device such as a server.
SAN (Storage Area Network) – Storage with redundant disks for failover that is directly attached to the LAN via IP Address rather than attached to a single device such as a server. SAN’s typically allow for greater performance and file transfer speed due to Fiber Optic architecture.
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