tapes Tape backups are OK as a ‘standby’, but too slow and unreliable for key data and that which requires safeguarding by mandate/ regulation. Over 30% of full recoveries via tape fail. Because of this unreliability, in a disaster they represent a major risk at a time when ever moment counts towards your organisations recovery - satisfying contracts and serving customers.   Even if your tapes are OK, the process of recovering from tape is slow. Hardware needs to be fitted with an identical device and operating systems built up to a level that supports both the tape drive and its software. In most cases a full operating system. Recovering individual files from tape can be extremely slow & expensive. Operators may need to ‘trawl’ through several tapes to find the correct version. BC Vault can locate files in seconds – recovery is simple and assured. Click above to download   the BCVault brochure

BARE METAL INTELLIGENT RESTORE

BCVault can recover to hardware with the absolute minimum of pre-configuration. For example on Microsoft servers it needs just enough operating system to support the RAID configuration. After this it will restore operating systems, applications and data.

BCVault’s restore is intelligent – it can restore onto dissimilar hardware, saving you time trouble money and difficulties. During the restore process if BCVault recognises different hardware it will stop the restore and verify this with the operator, requesting the required drivers.

RESTORE OPTIONS

In most scenarios you’ll be able to restore all the files you want online. However in a major disaster you may not have bandwidth, premises or equipment. To assist in this we offer a range of disaster recovery options. These include:

TAPES – RISKS – DELAYS, FAILURES & NON-COMPLIANCE

Tapes need storing in temperature, light, humidity and magnetically controlled environments to have the best possible chance of being recoverable - this needs to be secure to be legally compliant. Even this may not be enough. See the box (right).