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WhitepaperChoosing an online backup tool?Why speed should be a key considerationIntroductionWhen a managed service provider (MSP) or an IT supportHere, if you do one incremental backup daily, you arecompany comes to choosing an online backup tool, therebelieved to be doing well. If you have a serious crash, aare several criteria to consider: price, ease of use, trust infull day’s data could be lost. And restoring from tape couldthe vendor and, of course, speed. Speed is arguably thetake at least that long. Possibly longer.most important issue when it comes to backup, perhapssecond only to reliability.And if you are still on tape, all those incremental ordifferential backups still require a heap of tapes, all of whichBackup isn’t just about storing copies of your customers’have to be mounted, copied to, stored and managed.data; it’s really more about what happens when you needIn a LogicNow survey of 200 IT professionals at small toto restore it and your ability to recover your customers’mid-sized businesses, people were asked how often theybusiness. You see, the more often you back up, the more upbacked up business data:to date the data is when the time comes to restore it. Muchof this is driven by the backup window, which is the time it32% of respondents admitted to not carrying out dailytakes to perform a backup without impacting system andbackups as they do not believe it to be an efficient usenetwork performance. Performance degradation is oneof their timereason backups are usually done during off-peak hours.9% claim not to have room for their backupsWhen backups take time, they burden the IT department31% wish their backups were more efficientthat has to manage them. And they tax the network thatsupports the backups. Time definitely impacts – andThis is due in part to the sheer size of some backups butperhaps even dictates – backup behavior.it is also due to the fact that some still use tape, which isa difficult, unwieldy, unreliable, and time-consuming wayDue to the state of most backup solutions, few businessesto do backup. Or simply put, backups are too big and takeback up as often as they should. This is particularly true fortoo long.shops that still use tape.

Speed solves everythingIf you can optimize the selection of data, as well asminimize the time it takes to perform the backup,without compromising an ability to protect yourcustomers’ data, applications, and systems, high-speedbackup can fundamentally change how you protectyour customers’ data and positively impact the cost todo so.MAX Backup employs a number of cutting-edgetechnologies to achieve blazing backup and restorespeeds that revolutionize the selection of whatshould be backed up and how quickly backups occur,increasing the frequency of backup to ensure yourdata is as fresh as possible.The most efficient backupYou only want to backup what’s changed. So MAXBackup uses several methods to establish exactlywhich files have been modified and then exactlywhat’s changed within those files. With intelligentreviewing of file structures and file system metadata,as well as its Backup Accelerator technology, whichactively monitors files larger than 1GB, MAX Backupspeeds up the process of identifying what files havebeen changed, leaving backup windows to focuson actual backups. This helps keep backup windowsshort, allowing for more frequent backups, if needed.Once data is selected for backup, MAX Backup’s TrueDelta technology enables the deepest deduplicationof the backup data possible today, reducing the rawbackup data size to as small as possible.Other backup solutions will send over the completefile even if a single number or letter was altered in thatfile, regardless of the file size. MAX Backup only sends“ MAX Backup uses several methodsto establish exactly which files havebeen modified and then exactlywhat’s changed within those files. ”the changed blocks of data, deduplicates the data toensure data is only sent once.

And to complete the trifecta of speedy backups, MAXBackup compresses and stores data at super-highdensity, far higher than with traditional, file, or otherblock-level backup tools. In fact. In fact, MAX Backupcompression is in the order of 8-10 times.You can reduce backup amounts by a minimum of99.5%. And for Microsoft Exchange, you can expectMAX Backup’s deep duplication to reduce backupamounts by as much as 98%. Simply put, the less datayou have to send over the network for backup, thefaster your backup will be.This massive data reduction opens up a whole newworld of possibilities. Using MAX Backup’s on-premisestorage, the Local Speed Vault (LSV) along with itsComprehensive backup coveragecloud-based storage in a hybrid-cloud configuration,MAX Backup intelligently integrates with theyou can back up far faster and far more often. Backupsapplications, operating systems, and virtualizationsimultaneously go to the cloud and to the LSV. Whenplatforms your customers use every day, including:the LSV finishes, the job it is marked complete and MAXBackup automatically completes the synchronizationto the cloud for you, further shortening backupwindows.The best news is that this performance opens up aWindows OS X Linux VMware revolutionary way to do backup. It means that hybridcloud backup is not only workable; it is now theMicrosoft Hyper-V preferred method of data protection. The availabilityof bandwidth is greater in today’s networks by severaldegrees compared to a few years ago. Coupled withTrue Delta and compression, you can now movelarge sets of backup data over IP networks – right outto the cloud.It can seamlessly protect:Network sharesSharepoint SQL Server Slow restore speed killsShops that use tape are in tough shape. If you are forcedto recover from tape, you could be looking at recoverytimes of a day to a full week to get all your data backbecause tape is a slow, non-linear media. And it onlycontains data. In the event of a major incident, you willbe forced to rebuild and reconfigure servers for yourclient before all the data can be poured back in.MySQLExchangeOracle

Because of it’s deep deduplication, MAX Backup canrestore over 5GB per minute Instead of taking hours,or far longer, most restores will take just minutes.And because MAX Backup allows such control, morerestores are fast and easy – even your customers cando their own restores.MAX Backup also offers several options to speedup the recovery process. For those customers withshort recovery times, MAX Backup supports imagebased backup using both public and private cloudbased recovery targets to recover entire servers andinfrastructures virtually. For the most critical systems,MAX Backup also supports creating a Standby Image– an always-ready virtual machine backup lying in waiton the LSV.And since 99% of all restores involve the recovery of asmall group of files, end users can use a standard webbrowser to find and restore the files themselves. WithTrue Delta the restore is more or less instant.ConclusionKeeping pace in today’s digital world requires a needfor speed and flexibility – especially when it comesto backing up business intelligence on behalf of yourcustomers. Fast backup means you can schedulebackups as your customers’ business imperativesWant to know more?Do you need more information aboutour MAX Backup or do you want tostart a 30-day trial today?demand. That means their data can be current when itcomes time to recover. The speed of restoration is justContact our sales team:as pressing an issue. When awaiting recovery, chancesUK: 44 (0) 1382 309040are your customers’ are not working at full capacity orUS: 1 (919) 957 5099maybe not even working at all.APAC: 61 (8) 7123 4060Online backup eliminates these hassles commonlyassociated with slower methods. It also gives youcontrol over what you back up and when you do it.

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This helps keep backup windows short, allowing for more frequent backups, if needed. Once data is selected for backup, MAX Backup's True Delta technology enables the deepest deduplication of the backup data possible today, reducing the raw backup data size to as small as possible. Other backup solutions will send over the complete