Backup Server
Some applications dictate a more flexible, customized approach to data protection and restoration. For customers requiring backup on several servers, larger amounts of storage, data isolated from other users or more control over the administration of backup processes, Hostway offers the Continuous Data Protection Center. It's a dedicated server and storage solution that provides complete control over backup schedules and retention policies, access control and Web-based file or machine restore.

A dependable storage solution is the key to your continued success. As your critical data inevitably grows, dedicated storage frees up space on your primary server - especially if you share data across locations or have images, streaming video or backup files - and protects you from accidental data loss.

Hostway offers a range of customizable storage solutions designed to fit your exact needs - from entry-level to advanced. We house your data in our disaster recovery-ready, ultra secure data centers across the globe. You get a dependable, highly available and completely scalable storage environment for your critical data.

Hostway has partnered with R1Soft to offer the only Continuous Data Protection (CDP) solution for Linux server backups. R1Soft's CDP is a solution that enables disk-based data protection, Linux and Windows disaster recovery and Bare-Metal Restore for servers and workstations running Linux and Windows operating systems.

Benefits of the R1Soft CDP Solution include:

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.

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.

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

Open File Backups
R1Soft's backup solution includes built-in support for backing up open files. No third party software is required.

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

Near-Continuous Backups
During normal host operation, the R1Soft CDP Agent keeps a journal of disk changes. Incremental backups know which 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.

Designed with Resellers in Mind
Delegate control to different administrators on a server-by-server basis.

Remote Administration
Software can be completely controlled offsite using a Web-based interface.

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

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.

Data Integrity
During backup and restore, data is verified using MD5 checksums.

The CDP Center can be utilized to backup your existing Hostway dedicated or collocated servers or to provide off-site backup to servers in your office, data center or third party location.

Remote Site Protection and Recovery

The server location can be optionally configured to provide an additional level of protection by separating the backup servers and disk storage from your core production servers.

Multi-site Replication/Backup
As demands for secure, long-term data storage increase, so the backup systems that have to cope with that demand have also become more complex. Again, Hostway supply a range of utility backup systems that offer customers the ability to store data in a range of environments (from dynamic/high availability or medium to archival), and in more than one global location.