Seven seasons of data recovery software - Aspects

disaster recovery planning is a key component of business strategy without security problems. While the hardware components of the plan, manuals and technical documents discuss hardware, software components, not least, is often overlooked in planning.
Solid File System (sulfate) is a component for software developers working on solutions for data storage and data integrity. Solf integration in data recovery solutions to reduce recovery time, minimize data loss and data integrity to prevent malicious temper, or destruction, and reduce the requirements for highly qualified IT professionals. This article examines the advantages Solf, free use in data recovery after a catastrophic event of any kind.
Recovery Planning
Statistics show (Jim Hoffer, health management technology) that only 6% percent of companies fully recover from hardware or software disaster, or maliciously or negligently, 43% never return and open the remaining 51% businesses close within two years.
Planning for data recovery has become a ubiquitous and necessary process for any company that can not afford downtime due to significant data loss, and in real life this means that each company. The losses resulting from business inevitably breaks may occur:

   First direct loss of income
   Loss According to the "face" - customer confidence, damage to corporate image, etc.
   Third Fire Damage
   Fourth Loss of ability, leakage of inside information, the public availability of sensitive information, etc.
   Fifth Circuit Court
The main elements needed to prevent these serious consequences of the disaster and business continuity to ensure careful planning of proactive strategy for disaster recovery. For each management strategy process should be to establish a recovery point objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO). As always, a right to compensation must be selected by the cost and speed and efficiency of use. Obviously, zero data loss, the solutions are zero recovery time among the most expensive.
In addition to hardware-based care is well known, is one way to reduce the cost of disaster recovery by custom file systems, file system as a solid. Solid File System allows creation of a single giant compressed encrypted file storage cover any type of data. The paper analyzes the potential use of solid filesystem (SOLF) in each of seven levels of traditional business continuity solutions.
Level 1: Data backup with no hot site
Companies with a solution of continuity on the basis of level 1 backup tape to a specific time interval. These tapes are delivered to the storage site.
For the purposes of backup, it is very useful for space-based data storage Solf. All documents are conveniently stored in a file. No need to rewind the tape in the search for a particular document - the whole field can be restored quickly.
Moreover, the fact That Solf integrated company provides cryptographic protection tape count nearly one in three service without the risk of data loss. In this case, keys or passwords used to encrypt stored and locked separately from the backups. A loss of this key is not effective storage feasibility of restoration, but restrict access to data impossible.
Solf also allows the use of backup systems for incremental work in the field: There is no need for update of the storage system files when minor changes to the data. Feasibility of this approach depends on the frequency of the stored file will change, which is specific for your application. The advantage of the backup copy of all memory is that the backup system is not necessary to know the internal structure, the layer of encapsulation and storage directory structure. The total memory is no possibility of loss of a single attribute file will be copied.
It also supports data compression native sulfur. If we include data storage Solf vulnerable to pressure, the use of sulfur for the conservation of all compression is applied much longer cost-effective and regular use of compression tools for individual files or folders. Solf storage based on the diary for the use of self-integrity checks. If part of a band or a disk sector is corrupted and unreadable, the entire inventory, save the corrupted file (s) remains intact and functional. There is also a way to separate the backup file storage Solf, if necessary. Solf edition controller allows access to your storage space as regular files and folders from the backup application or another application. This also allows the development of a monitoring tool monitors changes to files storage and export Solf maintained in any format, copying or manipulation of others.
Of course, the restoration of a storage pool Solf requires more than one file, But as a result of obtaining all of the available memory on each input file and directory content. This recovery can be performed by less qualified staff as needed for the complete manual re-installation of the storage facility.
In addition, the storage utilization based on simple storage separation Solf operating system backup procedures backup: Restore enables fast, regardless of their operating software storage environment.
Level 2: Data backup with a hot spot
This track has the same provisions for disaster recovery as Tier 1 and a computerized reservation system (hot site called) to a remote location physically. The hot side is able to process the same data as the main system. After a disaster, the data stored on tape, restore the reservation system. This approach allows a faster recovery of the system, because not only data, the system itself will be restored.
The use of Solf significant advantages over traditional backup-based storage. Since the reserve is to copy the system-independent data, can be used in new locations faster and with less qualified staff. The remote site can start work in less time and reduces the RTO.
Level 3: Electronic vaulting
Level 3 is an additional provision of some critical data is continuously copied to a remote server (electronic time) in a dedicated channel. Since that constantly open channel limited bandwidth, only the preset data is very important to be covered by these provisions.
Solf partition possible storage of critical data at hand, which greatly simplify the transfer and recovery. Solf functionality can be enhanced to manipulate data, such as critical data automatically turns on the channel dedicated to the electronic transfer. Solf also allows multi-stream, access to the media: their separate subsystem can monitor the status of critical data and electronic vaulting. The integrity of conservation is not violated, encryption, authentication and access are supported.
Level 4: Point-in-time copies
This level is different in the three previous ones, the disks are used instead of tape. The hard drive has faster access times, but still must be delivered remotely via the same channels as the tape.
Solf The advantage is that the storage file specific Solf-based, and the inclusion of a single file, much less time than writing files and directory structure one by one. The same goes for the rest. As before, the remote system is encrypted hard disk so that data manipulation impossible. use native compression increases the speed of writing to disk and use even more.
Fifth Rank: transactional integrity
Retail and service organizations are more often of operations: the interaction speed communication between the company and its customers, suppliers, vendors, etc. are used for these applications company focused on the transaction, and preserving the integrity of the transaction between the beginning and the conclusion is very important.
Solf integrity of transactions based on the storage medium by default. All transaction files remain in their original context, to preserve their relationships and interdependencies. recovery process of conservation, are all processes in the time immediately before the disaster. The transaction generated / management application can once again exactly where you left with almost no loss of data. To increase security and efficiency, all the files that can be changed during a transaction are removed in a separate memory for instant reservation in real time to a remote electronic vaulting. The viability and feasibility of this approach depends on the logic and design of the application generating transactions.
Level 6: Near zero data loss
This level is about the existence of a request synchronous or asynchronous mirroring of data to a server geographically remote. This solution is independent of the software for professional use daily.
Solf storage are fully compatible with applications of these experiences and provide additional benefits of faster compression, encryption and control over data access and authentication.
Seventh Level: Highly automated, business integrated solution
The seventh, the highest level, unlike previous ones, disaster relief automatically by a device (s) decides to separate from your computer system. The event will allow the return of the emergency system and the activation of mirror Reserve website without human intervention.
Solf benefits of storage in this scenario are similar to those described above.
If the recovery of animals specific data, which is society, the use of storage Solf advantages of faster recovery time, integrity, preservation, data from accidental destruction or unauthorized access and manipulation during storage, and generally choose to reduce the need for highly qualified specialists in the solution to customers.