Who Needs Data Protection?

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Topics

• Who Needs Data Protection?
• Evaluating Backup Software
• Three Backup Software Types
• Legacy
• Online
• near-Continuous (CDP)

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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

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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/Ss 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?

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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?

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Backup Type Legacy
Tar
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
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
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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
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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

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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

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R1Soft Implementation
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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
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Archive Many Virtual Full Backupsin R1Soft Disk
Safe
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Manage All Backups Centrally
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Recover Files or Volumes
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Parallels Integration

• Plesk
• Control Panel Account Level Restores
• Parallels and R1Soft Partnership
• Technology Integration

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Questions and Comments

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  founder_at_r1soft.com
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