Off-Site Backup: Full Disaster Recovery

If a disaster results in loss of your entire office — servers and on-site NAS included— you order a newly imaged NAS with the most current backup-normally the last daily that was done, to be shipped out via next business-day air transportation to a location of your choice.

Depending on the NAS model used, multiple servers can be virtualized on one NAS even as the NAS continues to perform backups of other servers.

When the NAS arrives, all you need to do is plug in a patch cable and you’re up and running.

For additional protection in the event of a complete disaster, data is securely transferred to an off-site co-location facility on a daily basis. The storage facilities are two XO high-availability data centers in Phoenix and Baltimore.

They provide backup images stored at the data centers on a Storage Area Network (SAN) at the primary facility, then replicated to the secondary facility.

Connectivity is provided by multiple providers with automatic failover capabilities.

Two fiber optic network drops are used for our backbone. Full physical security at each facility including security cameras and key card access. The network is secured with high-end redundant, automatic failover firewalls. Fire suppression and environmental control are provided. Automatic back-up power is provided with on-site generators.