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pain-free backups. The 75GB was everywhere, what looked The Management team were
daily tape backup process like uncorrupted and exceptionally pleased with the
which had previously taken 4- complete word documents speed of recovery and have
6 hours now takes only a contained spurious excel data justified their investment in
matter of minutes. The unique in the middle of them. We the service. They think the
compression, data simply could not allow access online backup service is a
deduplication and encryption to the data. Based on our perfect fit for an organisation
process that takes place on expectations on what we of any size. “We would
the data prior to it being knew from our previous recommend Redstor to
transmitted means that restores from tape, we anyone” concluded Sam
Gieves and Hawkes also did calculated a worst case Thompson.
not have to upgrade their scenario of 3 days to recover
internet connections. the data”. According to Tony Ruane, the
business development
THOMPSON 1-2-1 “It works very well” recalls All Gieves & Hawkes had to do director at Redstor, Gieves
Sam. Our data is backed up, now was bring online their and Hawkes’ situation is not
SAM
verified and we even get daily test server, a new 64 bit server that unusual, ‘Every business
reports on the success of our that was of totally different has to manage their risks and
backups. The whole process specification to their old reduce their costs- on-line
has reduced our daily backup machine, log in to the Redstor backup is now so viable- not
management time from 1-2 Online Backup account and just for the likes of Gieves
hours down to 10 minutes! start the restore, “I could have and Hawkes but for also for
On Thursday the 25th of June performed the restore from larger enterprises. We have
2009, Gieves & Hawkes had anywhere in the world but I over 25,000 clients now and
to wait no longer to find out was still concerned. Although they range from small
how well the service would we had recovered the odd file businesses right through to
perform in a real data loss we had never successfully enterprises with 30TB of data
scenario. A server failure restored a large set of data and the reason we have been
caused a RAID I/O controller from the old tape solution” he so successful is down to
to corrupt and re-reference all continued “I should not have demonstrating that on-line
of the data in their disk array. worried, the 10 GB of data backup can be cheaper than
“I had never observed such a came back across the wire in traditional methods and take
huge failure before on a live less than 4 hours and this was away the risk normally
data set” Sam continued “ in the middle of a busy associated with running the
only a third of all the data Thursday afternoon!” backup process in-house’
was available, it was
catastrophic, mixed up data www.redstor.com
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