Data Recovery

S2s Ltd is a UK provider of network consulting and implementation services
that needed data protection to ensure business continuity
even in the event of a server breakdown.
s2s was previously using disk-to-tape to back up all the various systems the business was running on.
Backing up and recovering data was not only a very complicated and time-consuming process
it was also very unreliable. When retrieving data
from the tapes
once they had been delivered back to s2s
a lot of the data from the tapes was irretrievable.
SecurStore’s online solution automatically transfers data offsite in real-time
eliminating the risk of having backups located onsite in case of a disaster or loss of data during transportation to an offsite location. Data is transmitted and stored offsite in a state of the art data centre on a reliable disk subsystem
which is in turn duplicated and backed up onto a second disk sub-system located apart from the primary disk sub-system.
Due to the nature of the business
s2s runs on a variety of operating systems. Most of its servers are Linux-based and some of them are Mac-based

because many s2s employees use Apple Macintosh machines. It also has the obligatory Windows applications and operates with a SAN architecture. SecurStore also needed to take into account the fact that most of the s2s servers are virtualised and that s2s already had a NAS (network-attached storage) system in place.
The backup service uses many defense mechanisms
such as strong
authentication
data encryption
password protection and client and
system side log legitimate users at s2s to perform a data recovery
when needed.
SecurStore backs up the critical data of s2s (120GB) online on a continual basis
so that from the moment a server goes down
all the data can
be quickly retrieved online. The remaining less critical 80GB of data is either backed up to SecurStore’s Backup Lifecycle Management (BLM) offline service
or backed up by the outsourced provider.

SecurStore is suitable for businesses that need to protect data from a few gigabytes to terabytes. The service ensures that any data held on PCs
Macintosh computers
file servers and application/database servers is securely backed up. SecurStore supports many platforms including Windows
NT/2000/2003/XP along with AS-400 iSeries
Unix and Linux. SecurStore can also protect a wide range of databases including Oracle
SQL
Exchange
Lotus Notes and DB2.