DC Protect

Innovative backup and restore solution

Some questions to think about...

How many percent of the data on your servers gets backed up on a daily basis?

Is it easy to restore data in case of an emergency?

Do you check regulary that your backups are still functional?

How much time and resources does it take to perform and maintain your backups?

Is it an automated process or does it require frequent manual interventions?

How much does it take to troubleshoot backup errors?

How easy is restoring your data ?

Is the restore process going smooth ?

Key aspects to address

Backups must be reliableTape backups sometimes fail:

Order of tapes gets mangled up Tapes have a limited lifetime (tape strech, alignment) An incremental backup plan increases speed, but significantly

decreases reliability as wellDiskcopy operations tend to fail on open files

Backup & restore operations must be as fast as possible to minimize downtime

Tape restore operations are much slower and requires ‘tape juggling’

Distributed backups have to use minimal network bandwidth and storage

Only data that is not stored already should be backed up at a central location

Key aspects to address (cont.)

Backup & restore operations should be easy to perform

Central management and event monitoring

Backup solutions must be easy to setup and be scalable as well

Support for all major operating systems (Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP UX, IBM AIX..)

DC-Protect overview

Product positioningDisk Based backupContent-Based file backupDistributed SW Client – HW Server based

FeaturesFull daily backup with long retention ratesInstant restoresSelf service web interface

Value offeringProtection of information, reducing business riskRapid Return on Investment, lower requirementsInstallation in minutes not weeksScalability first, supporting any size server farm,from 10 to 1,000s of serversHW/SW independent, supports various OS and server types

Product concept & designPrebundled Software/HW

Installed on redundant DC-Protect Storage Serverper 50 servers one DC-Protect Storage Server Works with any NAS/SAN

Characteristics

Self-service

System rollback/forward

Efficient data storage

Minimal network throughput

Minimal storage needed

Central administration

Open and firewall friendly

Option: Off Site Backup

Feature Overview

DC-Protect

DC-Protect Features

Disk based backup

Content based backupEfficient data storage

Minimal network throughput

Self-service Backup & Restore

System rollback / roll forward

Central administration

Off Site Backup

Disk Based Backup

Fast backup data transferOnly unique files are transferred

Transfer speed determined by network and disk speeds

Immediate and fast file restoreFiles are online

no slow searching through tapes

Files are stored in full version no incremental backup reassembly

Efficient storage/network throughput

Existing backup methods copy all data from the servers to a central storage medium. Storage and network capacity needed to execute this process is overwelming.

Our patented content based backup scheme will reduce those requirements upto 1/1000 for needed network throughput and upto 1/100 for needed storage.

Tape backup system

Single Host Tape LibraryNon-optimized

storage

Backup

Weekly fullDaily full file incremental

Block based backup

Single Host

Daily backupBlock based incremental Full

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Daily full backupUnique files only

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Disk Storage

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Parallel backup operation

Agents on the target machines perform backup tasks in parallel and simultaneously.

This allows to backup a large number of machines within a tight backup window

This guarantees datacenter grade scalability of the backup solution.

Agent

Light agent2 Mb RAM usage

Minimal bandwidth usageAll files are compressed before transport

Self contained:Does not install anything outside its own directory

Does not rely on any functionality of the OS to operate

Agent

Server agentsMS Win 2000 Server / Adv. Server / Datacenter

MS Win NT4 Server

Linux

Sun Solaris

BSD (Planned)

Client agentsMS Win 98 SE (Planned)

MS Win ME (Planned)

MS Win NT4 Workstation

MS Win 2000 Home / Pro

MS Win XP Home / Pro

Linux

Self-service Backup & Restore

Our intuitive self-service interface lets customers/divisions managers and end-users schedule and restore their own backups.

The DC-protect backup server has supervisory control over the backup cycle and will guarantee a working backup.

To recover lost data, the user can simply log on to a web interface and restore the particular version of the file or even full system.

Self-service Backup Interface

Backup Definition

Backup Schedule

System roll back / roll forward

Each day a restore set is made of the system.

A resore set is a text file with all the information about a (full)backup run. This file is the only thing needed to restore a server to its original state.

Because of DC-protects unique technology we maintain all data up to 3 months on a day to day bases.

DC-Protect can restore full or partially a server upto 3 months back and roll back or forward. E.g. You can decide to roll the server back to a date 6 weeks ago, you can change your mind and roll the server forward to a date only 4 weeks ago.

Backup history and restore

Central administration

The administrator is able to install, configure, and administer the “client software” from a central location.

The administrator is able to install, configure, and administer the “storage repository” from a central location.

Web Interface to DC-Protect server and agents on target machines

Central administration interface

Security

Public – Private Key mechanism for Agent Authentication

Encrypted SSH tunnel for Agent to server communication encryption

Pass phrase encryption of user dataData is encrypted before network transfer

Data remains encrypted while stored

Redundancy

DC-Protect server redundancy

Storage redundancy

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Open and firewall friendly

DC-Protect is based on an innovating, highly scalable multitier architecture using open standards:

HTTP protocol

FTP

Easy to install and use

Preinstalled on a base unit:Initial configuration through LCD

Web based central graphical user interface

Platform

HW platform (1U)Basic Configuration through front LCD display Terminal connection for disaster recoveryMinimal (no) maintenance designInternal HD for logging information.6 network connections (4 * for connecting the storage (e.g. DC-Storage or 3e party NAS, 1 * for connectivity towards the servers link, 1 * for redundancy sync and heartbeat)

Optional redundant configuration

One DC-Protect platform for up to50 servers to be managed.

Runs our DC-Protect orDC-Operate software.