Disaster Recovery Solution

Over 90% of the clients that I work with are configured to use StorageCraft Backup for their server backups.  About 30% of them are configured with a "hands-free" solution that I created and implemented with help from vendors and my senior level technicians.  The concept is not new but had to be designed to be cost effective for our clients, profitable for our company, and most importantly...work!  The servers (and in some cases workstations) are running StorageCraft Backup.  The backup jobs that are created are continuous incrementals.  This means a full image based backup (base image) is taken of the system and backed up to a network attached storage appliance.  In this scenario we used the Netgear ReadyNAS RNDU2220 model as the local repository.  All backups were pointed to directories located on the ReadyNAS.  Then we used a couple of technologies to replicate the backup directories to a secure offsite datacenter where other Netgear ReadyNAS appliances host the replicated backup images for our clients.

Upon a server crash or something happening to the facility, we can take the image backup files, create a virtual machine, then run that VM on a virtual server host at the client location or offsite if necessary.  Or we can restore the image to different hardware.  This allows the client to continue to function in the event of a catastrophic incident.