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Abstract

Disaster recovery planning is a major component of the strategy for the proper conduct of the security process. While the hardware component of this program is also available in the manuals and white papers from vendors of hardware, software that is no less important, is often neglected in planning.

Solid File System (Solf) is a software component for programmers working on data and data integrity solutions. Solf data integration solutions in the recovery of the recovery period to minimize data loss and ensure data integrity, to prevent pests or hardening of the destruction and the condition of the High Level staff. This white paper examines the advantages Solf use in the field of data recovery after a catastrophic event of any kind.

Recovery Plan

Statistics show (Jim Hoffer, Health Management Technology), only 6% of companies in its entirety of the following serious software or hardware disaster, whether due to malignant tumors or neglect, while 43% never open and 51% of the companies within two years.

Planning of data recovery on a generalization of the process and necessary for every company that can not afford downtime due to significant loss of data, and in real life, this means that each company. Losses inevitable interruptions of the activity can be:

The loss of direct revenue
The loss of “face” – the trust of our customers, the image damage for companies, etc.
Brand damage
Loss of know-how, information leakage, the availability of information, etc.
Court Costs

The main components, to prevent these serious consequences of the disaster and ensure business continuity is a careful planning of the strategy for recovery after disaster. For each company, this strategy should be a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO). As always, a compromise between speed and cost-effectiveness of the recovery would be more appropriate. Of course, the “zero data loss, zero-time recovery solutions are the most expensive.

In addition to the known material, based on the precautions to be taken one at a way to reduce the costs of disaster recovery is the use of custom file systems, such as file system SolidWorks. Solid File System lets you create encrypted compressed file large memory, which prohibits any form of data exchange. This article explores the possibility of applying solid file system (Solf) on each of seven levels of identification of traditional continuity solutions.

Level 1: data protection without hot site

Companies rank 1 solution of continuity of tape backups at intervals. These tapes are then shipped off site for storage.
To copy the reserve, it is very convenient to transfer data in memory of Solf. All documents are comfortable in a file. It is not necessary to fix the tape back looking for a document – the entire store can be restored quickly.
In addition, the fact that Solf a built-in cryptographic protection, enables the company in this field Tape Storage for nearly all third-party service providers without risk of information leaks. In this case, the encryption key or password to be respected and, separately, for a backup. A loss of this key does not affect the feasibility of storing food, but the recording of data impossible.
Solf also allows the use of incremental backups, the systems operate on a sectoral basis: There is no need for all file storage minimal, if changes were made to the data. Feasibility of this approach depends on the frequency of the recorded file exchange, ie for each application. The advantage of the reserve to copy all memory is that the backup system does not need to know the internal structure, encapsulation at or tree storage. The entire memory are copied without the possibility of the loss of a single attribute.
In addition, native support Solf data compression. If a data storage, Solf vulnerable to compression, the use of storage for Solf all compression is much faster and less expensive than regular use of tools for files or folders. Solf based memory Journaling for integrity analysis. If part of a band or a sector on the hard disk is damaged and is unreadable, all memory, save the damaged file (s), is still intact and functional. It is also possible, separate backup files from your storage Solf, if necessary. Solf driver allows you to access your regular memory files and folders from the application of reserve copying or any other application. This allows the development of a tool for monitoring changes in just the files in a storage Solf and any form of reservation for copying or other manipulations.
Of course, restoration of a set of storage Solf takes more time as a single file, but as a result all of the memory of all the files and directories get content interdependencies. This data recovery may, by poorly trained personnel as that for a comprehensive re-assembling the storage structure.
In addition, the use of Solf memory makes it possible to separate the memory back-up of the operating system back-up procedure: the rapid storage, regardless of your operating environment.

Level 2: Data backup with a cold

This category has the same provisions as for disaster recovery level 1, plus a reserve system (the “Hot-page) in a remote location. The hot top is able, with the same data as the main system processes. After an event, the data stored on tapes to restore, to the reservation system. This approach allows a faster recovery of the system, since only the data, not the system itself, are restored.
The memory usage based Solf offer significant advantages over traditional backups. Since the reserve copies of data is independent of the system, it may, in new positions faster and with less staff. The remote site will have the opportunity to work in less time, thereby reducing RTO.

Level 3: Electronic vaulting

Level 3 is an additional provision for some of the data, the permanent copy to a remote server (electronic vault) on a specific channel. For such a bandwidth permanently open channel is limited to predefined data of utmost importance, can be assured under these provisions.
Solf allows partition of critical data storage, simplify significantly and its subsequent use. Solf The feature can be improved so that the modification of data, critical data automatically by the procedure above channel for electronic safe. In addition, multi Solf storage access: Your system can be separated from the state of critical data and transfer them to electronic data storage. The integrity of the violation of storage, encryption and authentication of access are also supported.

Level 4: Point-in-time copies

This level is the previous three, the disks are in the band. The hard disk access faster, but still be delivered to a remote storage on the same channel bandwidth.
Solf The advantage here is that memory Solf are based on individual files, and the inclusion of a single file takes much less time than writing all the files and directory trees one by one. The same goes for recovery. As in the previous case, the distance is encrypted installation of hard drives, data manipulation impossible. Native use of compression increases the speed of writing to hard drives and more.

Level 5: Transaction integrity

Retail and service organizations are more often around transactions: towers communication between the company and its customers, suppliers, vendors, applications, etc, these companies are also on the activities of the company, and preserving the integrity of transactions between the opening and the conclusion is very important.
Solf-based memory support for the integrity of transactions by default. All transaction files remain in their original context, their relationships and dependencies. Recovery process of storage, all transactions in the period immediately preceding the disaster. The operation of generation / management to restart the application that may be exactly where it was still almost no loss of data. To increase the safety and efficacy of all files in a transaction may, in its view, in a backup memory for immediate real-time electronic safe distance. The feasibility and applicability of this approach depends on the logic and concept of operations for the application to produce.

Level 6: Near zero data loss

This level requires the existence of a constant demand to synchronous or asynchronous mirroring of data on a remote server. This solution is independent of the software used to carry out daily operations.
Solf storage are fully compatible with these applications more rapidly and the benefits of compression, encryption and control over data access and authentication.

Step 7: Top automated and integrated business solution

The seventh, the highest level, is different from the previous to the disaster that the event is recognized automatically with a device (s) separated from the system. The disaster event triggers the system and restore the activation of reserve mirror, without the man.
Solf benefits of memory in this scenario, as described above.
Whatever the specific data recovery category, the company to choose the memory usage Solf benefits faster recovery time, preservation of the integrity, confidentiality or non-harmful and destruction of handling during storage, and generally the condition of the high qualified customers on the solution.

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