R1Soft CDP

R1Soft CDP Solution is a server software application that enables disk-based data protection and disaster recovery for linux servers and workstations running Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems. CDP Server protects disk volume data using replication and synchronization over the network storing point-in-time snap shots in disk-based storage.

R1Soft’s Continuous Data Protection solution is a near-Continuous Backups system capable of providing hundreds of recovery points per day scheduled as little as 5 or 10 minutes apart. For an introduction to Continuous Data Protection technology we recommend the following Wikipedia articles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_Data_Protection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Continuous_Backup

CDP Server works by reading your hard disk volumes at the sector level, bypassing the file system for the ultimate in performance and recovery. This disk sector synchronization is performed while the server is online and provides no interruption to other I/O requests even on a busy server. By reading the disk at the lowest possible level point-in-time recovery images contain your files and all the formatting, partition tables, and volume configuration needed for complete and instant disaster recovery.

Top Benefits

1. Bare-Metal Disaster Recovery

Bare-Metal Disaster Recovery: Restore servers directly from disk-based backup. Unlike traditional backup software, there is NO need to first partition your drive and install the operating system.

2. High Performance

Sector based backups increase throughput and reduce overhead. Servers can be fully operational with minimal performance impact during backups. Backups can usually be performed at anytime, even on busy servers.

3. Small Backup Windows

Only changed disk sectors are copied between backups. Incremental backups can now be completed in minutes.

4. Open File Backups

Righteous Backup is a total solution including built-in support for backing up open files. NO 3rd party software is required.

5. Snapshots

Our technology provides consistent point-in-time system-wide backup images.

6. Near Continuous Backups

During normal host operation, the R1Soft CDP Agent keeps a journal of disk changes. Incremental backups know what sectors on the disk have changed before the backup operation even starts. This eliminates the need for file-by-file or block-by-block comparisons every backup.

7. Designed with Resellers in Mind

Delegate control to different administrators on a server-by-server basis.

8. Remote Administration

Software can be completely controlled offsite using a web-based interface.

9. Compression

Incremental sector based backups ignore unused portions of the disk and copy only the disk sectors that have changed since the last backup. This when used with traditional compression, reduces backup storage by as much as 90% when compared to a traditional system wide, file-by-file backup.

10. End-to-end strong encryption

Data is continuously encrypted while in storage and during network transmission using RSA keys. Decryption during a restore is only possible when the encryption key holder enters their pass phrase.

11. Data Integrity

During backup and restore data is verified using MD5 checksums.