Risks to mission-critical data include hardware and software failure, file system corruption, accidental deletion, virus infection,
theft, sabotage and natural disasters. Managing those risks is your responsibility and our expertise. Gulf-TCS' data services incorporate
the latest in software technology, providing all the components to create a robust backup solution for any configuration, maintaining
affordability for your small to mid-sized company. Non-disruptive database backups can take place on a schedule that your business
requires without having to take critical data off line. Our backup designs can take advantage of SAN and NAS technologies, dedicated
backup-to-disk data protection techniques, as well as the older standard tape-based implementations. Our service includes:
- Design
of a data transfer strategy that meets your required backup and restore windows
- LAN-free Backup on SAN
- LAN-free Backup on NAS
- Backup-to-Disk
- Performance of scheduled backups
- Tape media management based on defined retention policies
- Management of offsite vaulting strategy
- Tape-restore management
- Execution of on-demand backups of volumes, files and database applications
- Tape library sizing as your storage
requirements change
- Monitoring of tape resource utilization to identify potential problems
- Creation of duplicate tape volumes for
increased data protection
The specifics we would invoke will depend on your Recovery Time Objective (RTO). The Gulf-TCS' disaster
recovery planning service will help you choose what is your most appropriate implementation. One possibility is high-availability server
configurations where data is held on dedicated disk. This allows tape drives and automation systems to focus on archival functions.
Backup is freed from many of the limitations associated with the real-time use of tape, while retaining tape's economic and archival
advantages. |