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Why dataVault? (Why NOT
Tape backups?) |
Over 40% of data is not properly backed up each night.
The Gartner Group
What would happen if your data was suddenly lost as a result of a hard drive crash, accidental data deletion, or theft? What if you began to restore your data from a tape backup and found that your full data set wasn't there?
Tape backups are notoriously unreliable for two main reasons:
- The data is stored on a fragile tape (not a hard disk)
- The whole process requires that a human being remember to rotate the tapes and take them off-site every night.
Of the companies that lose their data in a disaster, 90% are out of business within 2 years.
-University of Texas Center for Research on Information Systems |
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This process saps valuable employee time that could be spent on more important tasks. Tape backups have resulted in numerous failed recovery situations. To guarantee that your data is always available for recovery, it must be automatically backup each night to an off-site location and stored on a hard disk (not a tape). Today, Global Data Vault (GDV) has made this service affordable to small and midsize businesses. |
Still convinced that in-house tape backups are the way to go? CLICK HERE for the details.
dataVault: A better way to protect your data
dataVault couples easy-to-use data backups and recovery software with the unparalleled security of the best data hosting environments in the world. dataVault represents a quantum leap in data security technology for small to midsize businesses.
Install. Installation takes less than five minutes.
Setup. Using a Windows Explorer interface, select the data you want to backup and schedule a backup time and frequency (such as every night at 10pm). It's that easy! dataVault is fully automated-after file selection and scheduling, your files are automatically backed up at the specified time.
Backup. When the time comes for your first backup, dataVault:
- Compresses your data
- Encrypts the data using 448 BIT Blowfish encryption (100 times more secure than an ATM transaction)
- Transmits the data to an offsite data center with the following security features:
24x7 system administration, full systems redundancy, and cypher-locked doors.
Once the initial backup is complete, dataVault detects ongoing changes to your files, making daily backups fast and efficient. With dataVault, no one has to do anything once your backup is schedule - no more tapes to keep track of and transport to off-site locations.
Restore. It's as simple as two mouse clicks. Simply select the files you want to restore and click the "Restore Now" button.

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Using dataVault ensures that your data can be replaced any time, onto any computer, as often as necessary, with no additional costs. |
Why Should I Switch from Tapes to dataVault?
Tape Backup
- Tapes can fail. They can fail to backup and they can fail to restore.
- Orchestrating a tape-based backup is time-consuming and prone to human error.
- Transportation of tapes to and from the off-site storage area is necessary and time-consuming.
- The recovery process is unreliable and even more time-intensive than transporting the tapes off-site. Plus, restoring down to the single file level can be very difficult.
- How many historical versions of your files do you have to restore from? Most tape drive users only have 5, one for each weekday.
- How do you know if all your files were actually backed up properly?
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dataVault
- With dataVault, your data is stored redundantly on high tech storage devices in geographically separate data centers.
- With dataVault, you "set it and forget it"... it's fully automated so the risk of human error is eliminated.
- dataVault gets your data off-site for you. Plus, you can schedule backups to occur every night after your office is closed. No more room for human error, no more tapes to keep track of and transport to off-site locations.
- With dataVault, you can restore a single file or an entire directory with two mouse clicks.
- dataVault gives you instant access to 14 historical versions (or more if requested) of your files so you can restore a file as it existed weeks ago.
- dataVault will automatically notify you via email if a backup session does not run properly.
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"Aren't Tape Backups Cheaper?"
It may appear that way at first glance. But do you really know how much tape backups are costing your firm?
Consider these expenses:
- Employee time spent doing the backup and transporting the tapes off-site. With dataVault, you eliminate this expense entirely.
- Cost of replacing broken/old tape drives - Global Data Vault absorbs the costs of the storage equipment... you never have to worry about costly hardware (or software) again.
- The exorbitant cost of not being able to restore critical business data when you need it. When you experience your first data loss and are able to completely restore with dataVault, the money you save will pay for dataVault for the next decade.
Bottom Line: Your business data is too important to trust to human error, tape drives, and tape media. And your employees' time is too valuable to waste on this task. Tapes were valuable for a time, but today there is a better, safer solution.
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