Northampton Saints rugby club has implemented
anonline backup and recovery systemto
protect the club's critical data, including players' contracts and
medical records.
The move comes after the club's business was affected by a major
data loss, prompting a replacement of its manual tape-based backup
with an online system as part of its revised business continuity
plan.
The club chose a backup system from IT services company
Datastore365 using
Asigra's Televaulting automated backup and recovery
software.
The software enables the club to restore only lost data, whether
that involves a whole server, single directory, or individual file,
said Ali Hepher, head of technical services at Northampton
Saints.
The software also allows rapid backup and restore processes by
including only unique data that has not been stored previously,
cutting time and storage requirements.
Datastore365 is continually backing up 120GB of data to a
datacentre in Northampton. The data is also being mirrored to a
second datacentre at Greenham Common.