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How Backup
Vault Works
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Backup Vault operates an off-site storage
facility for your data. An account is maintained for each
user. Each account is protected by a password known only by
you, the end user.
The electronic vault system is set up so that at a preset
time, (usually late at night) your computer automatically
prepares its data for backup. It determines which files have
been modified since the last backup, compresses them, and
encrypts them for security. When the data is ready the
computer uses its modem or Internet Connection to contact a
Backup Vault Server and transmit the data.
The Backup Vault Server verifies and
stores the data. You can rest assured that your data is safe
for you to restore at any time.
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Business Case Study
The consulting company, Newell & Associates,
had a disk drive crash six months
after it began operations. And, even with a fully backed up
system on a tape drive, it took over five days to get a critical
computer system restored. They spent several
months investigating all the alternatives to manual backup
systems. They finally decided that the best backup system is the
one used by Fortune 500 companies. Companies like IBM, GE, and
Amoco.
Most fortune
500 companies use the same basic techniques to protect their
data:
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All their
systems are completely automated
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The data
is copied to a central location
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Highly
skilled technicians implement and monitor the process
Newell & Associates then spent several months
searching for the right hardware and software to enable this
system to work for a typical company, without the high
overhead.
In the middle
of 1999, RBS Inc., a leading backup software
company, released a system that would allow
Newell & Associates to set up a centralized server so
that its customers could lease a highly effective backup system
with no overhead.
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