Solid State Backup

Vaultwise™ SSB can be installed on either a Microsoft Windows Server or Linux Server. Regardless of O/S selection for the SSB Server repository both Windows and Linux computers running the SSB Agent program can be protected. Both Linux and Windows data protection are managed from a single web interface on the SSB Server Repository.

SSB works by installing a SSB Agent (client) on the Windows or Linux target server to be protected. The target server could be a physical or virtual machine. The SSB Agents communicate over a PGP key secured TCP/IP network or Internet connection with a Vaultwise™ Server data repository.

Vaultwise Corporate Backup™ service allows users to restore backup data via the Internet through any web browser. This provides you with the option of restoring your backed up data from a computer that has no Vaultwise Corporate Backup™ client applications installed. It would thus be very useful when you need to restore some backed up files during traveling, or when your notebook is stolen during your business trip.

Windows & Linux Live Boot CD-ROM – A bootable CD ISO is available for download. Burn this ISO image to a CD and boot your Windows or Linux server from CD to initiate a restore.
Windows & Linux PXE (network) Boot – Vaultwise™ SSB comes with a distribution of PXE network boot files that you can place on a TFTP server along with sample DHCP and TFTP server configuration. Use PXE Boot to fully automate restores over the network.
SSB Live Boot Remote Restore– Live Boot is a self-extract install available for download. Extract this file to any Linux server. It will install a new boot loader (grub or lilo) option to boot your Linux server directly into disaster recovery mode. Booting into disaster recovery mode can also be initiated via the command line by an administrator. Then you can initiate a Windows or Linux.

Bare-Metal disaster recovery for Windows & Linux. Bare Metal Restore supports Windows Basic, Logical, & Dynamic Disks, Windows Software RAID, Linux MD/RAID, Linux LVM, and all hardware RAID.
Choose from flexible Bare Metal Restore Boot Methods:

• Vaultwise™ Live CD-ROM for Windows & Linux Bare Metal Restore
• Windows & Linux PXE Network Boot
• Vaultwise™ Live Boot Remote Restore for remote/dedicated servers in distant data centers.

Solid State Backup(SSB) uses proprietary device drivers for Windows and Linux to efficiently replicate block level changes (deltas) automatically skipping duplicate blocks. Scheduled synchronizations create point-in-time open file snapshots (Recovery Points) that provide Virtual Full Backups.

Protect files and storage configuration anywhere you can install the Vaultwise SSB™ Windows or Linux Agent program and device drivers.

Data in Vaultwise™ SSB is stored in a unique Disk Safe storage format. This on-disk format enables SSB to archive point-in-time recovery images for long periods of time using as little disk space as possible. For each configured backup schedule a rotation policy can be defined. This policy specifies the number of different incrementals to keep for each schedule. Old recovery points are automatically deleted according to the policy. This system of minutely, hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly recovery point management is flexible enough for all needs.
The following are example policies demonstrating the flexibility of automatic data protection policy:

• synchronize every 10 minutes – retain the last 48 recovery points.
• synchronize hourly – retain the last 48 recovery points.
• synchronize daily at midnight – retain the last 7 recovery points.
• synchronize weekly on Sundays – retain the last 4 recovery points.
• synchronize monthly on the 1st – retain the last 48 recovery points.

Such a policy can be automatically managed by the Vaultwise™ Server. In addition to policy based management any unwanted recovery point can be deleted by an administrator at any time. Selected recovery points can also be locked to prevent automatic deletion by a policy.

The Windows SSB Agent integrates with Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) providing online synchronization of VSS aware applications such as Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange Server, and SharePoint Services. VSS is also used to provide online backup of disk volumes on Microsoft Windows Servers and work stations.

Open File Backups (Point-in-time Snapshots) for Windows Servers
Windows – Vaultwise™ use Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy to take point-in-time consistent snapshots of your open files on Windows servers.

Vaultwise™ SSB is capable of strong encryption of disk data using RSA keys and the blowfish cipher. During a synchronization data is encrypted (and optionally compressed) on the agent and sent to the server over the network where it is stored in encrypted form. The data can only be decrypted using a RSA key protected with a passphrase. During a bare-metal restore disk sectors are decrypted on the fly at the agent.

Browse files from any recovery point using a Web-based Graphical Explorer. The SSB Server instantly re-assembles block-level Deltas back into files for Windows & Linux file systems.

• Restore files to original or alternate location.
• Restore files to different servers.
• Cross-platform (Windows-Linux) File Restore.

Store and Archive SSB Virtual Full Backups onto any disk. Use directly attached RAID, Network Attached Storage, USB Drives, Storage Area Networks, Fibre Channel, ZFS, EMC, NetApps, Sun Filers, etc.

• Centralized logging for all server backups.
• Event history and logs via Web-based User Interface.
• Flexible E-mail reporting for a single or multiple servers.
• Windows NT Event Logging.
• Log events to a remote Unix style syslog network Server.

• Manage 50 or more servers or virtual machines from a single, centralized Web Interface.
• Automatic Disk Discovery.
• Users and Groups (Volumes).
• Fine-grained User permissions: Admin, backup-only, restore-only, view-only, create-users, SSB schedule frequency.
• Quotas for Agents and groups of Agents (Volumes).