White Paper: E-Book: 10 Everyday Things Your Data Backup System Should Do

Backing up data from a desktop, laptop or server sounds simple enough. You just copy your data from your system to someplace else; a backup tape, a central server, a second disk, an off-site SAN, a CD, a flash drive – you get the idea. Yet that simple act, copy from "here to there", vexes nearly every organization at some point as backups don't occur, fail in the middle or worse backed up data can't be recovered.

The SonicWALL Series of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) products and services is designed to provide foolproof, intuitive data backup and data restoration.

Automatic Transparent Backup
CDP delivers automatic, transparent backup that ensures data, applications and systems are reliably protected from common user error, hardware failure, deletion, potential disaster and malicious attack. In addition, Administrators can easily pre-configure set policies to ensure that specific business-critical files, folders or applications are backed up.

User-directed Restore
Enables end-users, as allowed by Administrators, to securely restore their own files, including multiple historic versions.This increases user satisfaction and improves both user and IT productivity.

Low-touch Administration
CDP automates tedious backup administrative tasks, providing an easy-to-manage, low-touch solution. This includes automatically generating e-mail alerts and producing regularly-scheduled reports on backup activity.

Flexible Disaster Recovery Options
CDP provides flexible disaster recovery options, including SonicWALL Offsite Data Backup, SonicWALL Site-to-Site Data Backup and SonicWALL Local Archiving, as well as SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery of complete systems. Extensible across multiple platforms including Windows and Linux®, CDP solutions can instantly recover data, applications or entire workstation or server systems onto original, new or virtual devices with SonicWALL Universal Restore.