Backup Technology & Asigra’s Continuous Data Protection enables you to instantly protect any new or modified files or emails in a data source as soon as they are updated. Continuous Data Protection therefore eliminates the possibility of losing any data between backup windows and gives you multiple restore points per day.
To minimise the bandwidth demands during a backup, Backup Technology’s solutions incorporate a series of WAN optimisation techniques, including de-duplication, data compression, block-level incremental backup and incremental forever backups.
Continuous Data Protection also mitigates anticipated WAN latency issues. If the WAN speed cannot keep up with the CDP data load, CDP dynamically and automatically adjusts the Recovery Point Objective granularity based on the available WAN capacity. The objective is to do the best possible job with the available bandwidth.
CDP operations are not impacted by occasional small data recovery and file restoration operations. The solution allows these actions while CDP backup is still active, ensuring that no data is put at risk during a recovery. Restores are continuously available from Local Storage or Backup Technology’s secure UK data centres.
In addition automatic retention policy enforcement without manual intervention is also included. Once the initial retention rules are set, enforcement is enabled for both regular and CDP backup sets, and separate retention configurations can be established for both Local Storage and data held in the secure offsite vault.
