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If your company depends on data, data backup should be an integral part of your IT environment. Data integrity, speed of recovery, and disaster recovery are key elements of any backup solution.
VeriCenter's backup processes and infrastructure have been architected to be scalable, secure, and manageable, and a skilled operations staff is in place around the clock to ensure accuracy and completion. As with the storage product suite, VeriCenter offers a variety of warm, near-real-time, and archived media to meet both business and regulatory requirements. This media combines to create a sophisticated utility-based infrastructure designed to perform one task: back up the data on your servers and store that data in secure facilities.
Veritas NetBackup is used to back up operating systems and application data to DLT tape cartridges, which reside in STK 9710 and Adic Scalar robotic tape libraries. Each application that is backed up has its own user-specified scheduling and procedural requirements. Veritas database extension agents are used to achieve a "hot" backup of databases, such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, without interrupting customer access to the application. To provide the foundation for data recovery, weekly full-image backups are performed on application data and operating systems. These backups are supplemented with daily incremental backups. The amount of data transferred for backups is based on the amount of data being stored on disk and how often it changes. Since VeriCenter performs incremental backups every night, if you change all of your files every day, each of the incremental backups will be a full backup to tape every night. Files that do not change are not backed up in the incremental backups but, instead, are backed up only during full backup cycles. Our weekly backups are retained onsite for two weeks and then shipped offsite for two weeks. Monthly backups are shipped offsite and retained for 90 days. Quarterly backups are shipped offsite and retained for one calendar year.
Restoration Services
In the event of data corruption or other problems requiring data recovery, the parameters for data recovery are defined by your application engineers and VeriCenter's evaluation of how the data corrupted and when the corruption manifested itself. Based upon that evaluation, the most appropriate recovery scenario is employed. For non-critical restores, a VeriCenter technician will begin the restoration process within three hours, provided the backup media is onsite For service-affecting situations, restoration will begin within 30 minutes, provided the backup media is onsite.
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