LiveVault and CDP

LiveVault takes CDP to a much higher level, with many more capabilities for the most reliable, complete continuous data protection available today. Only LiveVault, which pioneered continuous data protection and holds several CDP patents, includes CDP as an essential component of a complete online backup solution. LiveVault removes the risks inherent with tape backup while providing companies with a complete solution for continuously protecting their business-critical data. LiveVault solutions uniquely:

• Eliminate tape backup from the overall data protection process by providing continuous data backup coupled with continuous offsite protection.
• Protect your most crucial data: databases, applications, email servers and operating systems along with files – rather than only protecting closed files.

The Challenge: Tape-Based Backups Don’t Provide 24x7 Data Protection

Traditional tape-based backup presents numerous obstacles and challenges for providing full protection of your business-critical data, starting with the fact that tape backups are typically performed only nightly. With tape backup, should your company experience a server failure or file corruption, you would only be able to recover data, at best, from the previous night’s backup. You could lose up to a day’s worth of data or more!

The Solution: Continuous Data Protection (CDP)

Continuous data protection (CDP) uses disk rather than tape to back up data on a continuous basis as the data changes. After an initial backup of your full system, CDP solutions capture only changes to the data.

With CDP, you’re not constrained by the limitations of nightly backups and time window limitations. CDP solutions provide the following core benefits:

• More accurate and complete recoveries with reduced data loss.
• Faster and easier recovery of short-term data.

LiveVault Delivers Complete CDP

• Offsite Protection – LiveVault solutions continuously and securely transmit your changing backup data offsite, for more complete, efficient and reliable data protection.

• No Tape Backup Required – Competing CDP solutions still use tape as a key part of their overall data protection process. Only LiveVault removes the time, risk, complexities, and costs associated with tape backup.

• Greater Backup Protection for All Types of Files – LiveVault solutions provide continuous protection for an organization’s most crucial data: databases, applications, e-mail servers, and operating systems along with files – not merely closed files.

• Faster Recoveries of Short-Term Data – You can recover the short-term history faster, more easily, and more reliably from disk than recovering from tape.

• Granular Selection of Recovery Points – LiveVault CDP solutions give you more flexible, targeted Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), through the ability to recover the point-in-time version of the data that is needed. Since backup is continuous, you can choose from a multitude of recoverable versions. You recover from a corruption or a data loss that occurs during the day without losing that day’s data.

• Efficient Bandwidth Consumption – Since LiveVault solutions continuously capture only data changes, they allow for highly efficient bandwidth usage.