School IT files were saved from the recent
Yorkshirefloodswith a fast and
flexibledata-storage and back-upsolution.
When the Toll Bar village school near Doncaster was warned that
rapidly rising storm waters were on their way, office manager Anne
Newton realised she had time to rescue all the school's computer
records with the BackUpMaster unit the school had owned for just
two weeks.
Toll Bar Primary School is now one of 40 schools out of the 170
schools in the Doncaster area that rely on the BackUpMaster
platform from TakeWare.
The "beyond tape" solution promises to cut data retrieval and
average storage time from hours to around 15 minutes, with 100%
file recovery.
Just hours after Newton rescued the data all classroom
information files, plus essential school administration documents,
were reinstalled and running on another Doncaster local education
authority computer - while the original computer wallowed in three
feet of floodwater.
The
data protection move has smoothed the transfer of 150 Toll Bar
pupils to other schools, while repair work is carried out.
Newton said of the system, "It meant that I could save every one
of our pupils' Word, Excel and office documents within 15 minutes.
Our old system would have taken four hours. Everything would have
been lost."
BackupMaster uses the patented Plug&Go technology from
TakeWare. The hot-pluggable standalone software extracts all
computer data at high speed.
Compatible with SIMS (School Information Management System) as
well as a wide range of other educational and commercial software,
it forms a modern alternative to older tape technology
conventionally used in the educational and business sector.
SpecSavers and Vision Express are among the commercial
organisations that have now deployed the TakeWare solution.
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