Redstor Backup for Schools
Redstor Backup for Schools formally known as remote backup service for schools (RBUSS), offers a fully automated, online backup and recovery service which simplifies the management of backups and gives control and visibility of remote devices over the internet with a direct dedicated IP link to our remote data centres.
The RBUSS Redstor Backup for Schools automatically protects data residing on desktops, laptops, servers and network attached storage devices according to retention policies and schedules set by the user. Data is compressed, encrypted and sent to one of our secure state of the art data centres before it is replicated to a second secure Redstor data centre assuring the data is safely offsite for disaster recovery and regulatory compliance purposes. When data recovery is required, users can simply select the data to restore using an intuitive interface or for large data sets, the data can be returned to site for local, high speed LAN based recovery.
RBUSS Redstor Backup for Schools currently protects data for over 80 Local Authorities and service providers in the Education Sector throughout the United Kingdom and therefore Redstor address the protection of over 50% of primary school data.
Benefits of RBUSS Redstor Backup for Schools Include:
- No capital outlay for storage and backup equipment
- No maintenance costs
- Data is encrypted and is stored off site in Redstor high security data centres
- No tapes and tape management issues
- Maximum data availability and data security
- No need to acquire and maintain specific storage technical knowledge or management
- Consistent regular data backups with minimum human intervention
- Safeguards the confidentiality of school data through strong encryption
- Flexible data retentions to comply with internal policy regulations
- Rapid data recovery online or with an optional data recovery appliance
- Ability to prove restores
How it works
The school selects the data which they wish to backup either from an Administration or a Curriculum server. On the first backup, a ‘seed’ backup of the full data set takes place. When the data leaves the school’s site it’s fully compressed and encrypted and remains encrypted whilst at-rest in the data centres.
Once the seed backup has taken place, the software only sends across the incremental changes to the data on an ‘incremental forever’ basis.
After 30 days of backups, the software performs a ‘month end’ roll up of the previous incremental backup and creates a month end. 2 month ends are kept online meaning that you have 60 days of restore points – enough to see you through the Summer holidays should any of your students accidentally delete data on the last day of term!
Restoring data couldn’t be simpler, you can carry out file level restores using our easy to use web management console; or for restores of complete servers just restore over your existing Internet line.
