Abusiness continuityplan - set up just
five months before a power cut destroyed Art of Performance's data
as its server was shutting down - has saved an online bookshop's
business.
Art of Performance produces a website and various e-books based
on the Alexander Technique fitness programmes. The business lost
all of its data in the power cut, but was up and running eight
hours later thanks to a disaster recovery plan based on
Asigra online backup and recovery software.
The back-up system supplied by Falcon IT via Smartways uses
disk-to-disk
online backup and recovery software that creates a full daily
backup, which is stored in an offsite location.
Before Falcon IT installed Asigra's Televaulting software five
months ago, critical data was only occasionally backed up manually
on to rewritable CDs.
Roy Palmer, director of Art of Performance website services,
said, "The monthly fee for the backup is negligible for the
business return. The security of our marketing collateral, e-zines,
invoices and video files is ensured now that we have the backup and
restore technology in place."
Asigra has a pay-as-you-go licensing system, so that clients pay
only for the accumulated compressed data their customers need to
back up and vault offsite. This allows service providers to tailor
their prices for customers depending on the capacity of data
storage required, regardless of how many users there are and
without any hardware or software license costs.