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Servers are mission critical and typically contain the vast majority of the companies data. That’s why it’s imperative to have off-site server backup – not just to protect against a servers hard disk failing – but to protect your data from loss in fire or theft situation.
If you’ve ever been unlucky enough to have had to do a full system recovery from an off-site backup, you’ll be aware how long it can take to get that data downloaded again, even across the fasted of broadband connections. That’s why we adopt a belt and braces approach and give the best of both worlds; we’d install a small appliance (basically similar to an external hard disk) where you have the server and that’ll keep local backups, and then that will manage synchronising a copy of that same backup data up securely to a remote data centre.
It means in a disaster a backup can either be restored from the local backup, or can be restored from the online one.
We can spin up a virtual-fully functional version of the backup image of your server and use it exactly as if the server was still working.
Should the server encounter a hardware failure where parts need to be ordered, or the fault is going to require a lengthy repair (or even worse, it’s been stolen!) up in the data centre, we can spin up a virtual-fully functional version of the backup image of your server and use it exactly as if the server was still working.
Obviously this would perhaps be from the day before it died, but ultimately the servers up and running in a temporary form. We can then through the powers of VPN link your office network to the data centre using a private, secure and encrypted VPN tunnel and have your machines start accessing the data on the shared drives that would normally have been accessed through the local server – but this time it’s coming from the virtual instance with staff not noticing any difference (other than large files might take a little longer to open depending upon your broadband speed). This enables you to keep on working with minimal downtime as that can all be rolled out within less than an hour, rather than days or weeks..
Should the server encounter a hardware failure where parts need to be ordered, or the fault is going to require a lengthy repair (or even worse, it’s been stolen!) up in the data centre, we can spin up a virtual-fully functional version of the backup image of your server and use it exactly as if the server was still working.
Obviously this would perhaps be from the day before it died, but ultimately the servers up and running in a temporary form. We can then through the powers of VPN link your office network to the data centre using a private, secure and encrypted VPN tunnel and have your machines start accessing the data on the shared drives that would normally have been accessed through the local server – but this time it’s coming from the virtual instance with staff not noticing any difference (other than large files might take a little longer to open depending upon your broadband speed)
Once the original server is back up and running, we’d then arrange a date/time to do a synchronisation so that any data that’s been changed on the virtualised server is pulled down to the local server, and then operations are switched back to the local one and the temporary virtualised server spun down with normal backups resuming from that point onwards.
NOW THAT’S CLEVER!
With our server backup, not only does it notify us if a daily backup is missed for any reason, it actually checks the integrity of the image, actually
booting it up in a virtual environment in the data centre and ensuring that the backup image can be used and is a valid backup. That process is done every day – not just once a month or once per year – so we immediately know when there’s a problem that needs attention.
We’re proud to boast a strong team of IT technicians based in North Yorkshire who thrive on rolling up their sleeves and solving your IT problems and meeting your business tech needs. We service local businesses and their IT support needs throughout Stokesley, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire and Teesside.
Company Number: 08470957
VAT Registration: GB159000042
