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What is PIPs Warm Server Backup & Recovery ?
“Ensuring Data Security and Business Continuity for your Peace of Mind”
In today’s fast-paced digital world, maintaining uninterrupted access to your IT infrastructure is crucial for business success. Unforeseen events such as natural disasters, theft, power surges or security breaches can disrupt operations, leading to significant downtime, data loss and financial losses. PIP’s Warm Backup system provides a robust and reliable safeguard, ensuring that your business can continue to work seamlessly from any disaster.
What is PIP’s Warm Backup Solution?
PIP’s Warm Backup solution involves taking complete system images of all your servers, whether they are on-premises or hosted in a cloud environment. These system images capture the entire state of your servers, including the operating system, applications, and data. These images are then stored in one of our data centers in what is known as a warm state. A warm state, means that they are in standby mode and can be accessed in real-time whenever the situation warrants. Warm sites, provide an economical advantage, especially on licencing costs over a complete replica system which known as a hot site. Whilst still providing a complete business continuity and an enterprise disaster recovery strategy that a standard backup or offline backup does not provide.
Daily and Customizable Backup Frequency
Typically, PIP takes system images from your primary system typically, once per day to ensure that your data is consistently protected. However, the solution’s flexibility allows for backups to be taken as frequently as you require, even less than hours apart, aligning to your recovery time objective. This customizable backup frequency ensures that your business’s most critical data is always up-to-date and ready for recovery.
Australian Based Data Centres
All system images are securely stored in PIP’s Australian-based data centres. These state-of-the-art facilities are equipped with advanced security measures to protect your data from physical and cyber threats. By keeping backups within Australia, PIP ensures compliance with local data sovereignty and privacy laws, providing you peace of mind that your data is stored securely within the country.
Advantages of PIP’s Warm Backup System
Rapid Recovery and Business Continuity
In the event of a total disaster, such as natural disaster, power surge, theft, or a security breach at your primary site. PIP can bring your warm site online within minutes to full operation. This rapid recovery capability ensures complete data recovery for your business and seamless continuity of business operations. By minimizing downtime, PIP helps you maintain productivity and avoid the financial and reputational damage associated with prolonged outages.
Comprehensive Protection
PIP’s Warm Backup solution provides comprehensive protection for your entire IT environment. By capturing complete system images to our warm site, the solution safeguards not only your data but also your operating systems, applications and configurations. This holistic approach ensures that your business can recover fully, without the need for complex and time-consuming reinstallation and reconfiguration processes.
Scalability and Flexibility
The Warm Backup solution is designed to scale with your business. Whether you have a few servers or a large, complex IT infrastructure, PIP can accommodate your needs. The solution’s flexibility also allows for custom backup schedules and retention policies, ensuring that your backup strategy aligns with your business requirements and compliance obligations.
Enhanced Security
Security is a top priority for PIP. The Warm Backup system incorporates robust security measures to protect your backups from unauthorized access and cyber threats. These measures include encryption, secure data transfer protocols, and regular security audits. By choosing PIP, you can trust that your backup data is safeguarded to the highest standards.
How PIP’s Warm Backup Process Works
Initial Setup
The setup process begins with a thorough risk assessment of your IT environment to identify all servers and critical data files that are required by your business for minimal downtime. PIP’s team of experts will work with you to design a customized disaster recovery plan that meets your specific business goals and budgets. Our skilled engineers will answer any technical questions and explain best practices for warm standby systems.
System Image Creation
Once the initial setup is complete, PIP will create an online backup for the first set of system images or an onsite backup to an external hard drive. These server backups capture the entire state of each server, including the operating system, applications, and data. The process is designed to be non-intrusive, ensuring minimal disruption to your operations. These images will then be installed at the designated primary data center and a copy of data distributed to any further disaster recovery sites.
Ongoing Backup Process
PIP’s Warm Backup solution automatically takes a continuous backup
of all systems by means of determining changed data between the primary and secondary site. This data is then integrated into the primary backups at the same time the original sate of these servers is catalogued providing backup sets and adhering to the required recovery point objective. The solution includes monitoring and alerting capabilities to ensure that backups are completed successfully and any issues are promptly addressed.
Recovery Process
In the event of a disaster, PIP’s Warm Backup solution enables rapid recovery of your IT infrastructure. The recovery process involves restoring the system images to new or existing hardware, effectively bringing your servers back to their pre-disaster state. PIP’s team of experts will assist with the recovery process, ensuring that your business is back online performing normal operations as quickly as possible.
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