IS/IT departments are responsible for ensuring that business-critical applications are always available to users including the following requirements:

1. Implement non-disruptive backup and still meet increasingly stringent SLAs for business continuance, restore requirements (RPO / RTO), and disaster recovery.
2. Keep remote sites protected with limited resources.
3. Maintain consistent version control and staging environments.

Backup-to-Disk has been the answer to many of these requirements. However, the initial Backup-to-Disk solutions were expensive and cumbersome.

Advantage of backup to Disk Gen I	Disadvantages of Backup to Disk Gen I
Predictable, scalable backup for growing data volumes Reliable recovery Fast, granular recovery Point-in-time volumes with history Increased administrator efficiency Emergence of lower-cost ATA disks	Cost of storage / capacity (Limitations of disk-based backup data stored) Traditional data backup schedules: base incrementals Data archived from D2D2T difficult to manage (no single-step recovery Limited application integration

The Answer! Syncsort – Backup Express Next Generation Disk-to-Disk Technology

Backup Express provides technology that takes backup-to-disk to the next level. What is “The Next Generation”? Syncsort technology provides:

1. Block-level incrementals forever (Seed base and then schedule incrementals forever)
2. Synthetic full backup images on backup destination storage
3. Single-step restore (Search once, recover any object)
4. Full or selective restore from any point in time

Next Gen Backup-to-Disk Benefits:

1. Performance – Reducing Backup Transfers by >90%
2. Shorter backup times – minutes not hours
3. Minimal server resources used – CPU/Memory
4. Much less network bandwidth used
5. Less Backup Data Stored
6. Only the blocks that change are stored
7. Much less secondary storage capacity needed – saves £’s
8. More (Very) Frequent Backups!!

Finally, you can protect critical data frequently!

Features of Backup Express Next Generation Backup-to-Disk Are:

• High speed performance:
• Direct Disk Access (Bypassing File System)
• Block-level Data Movement
• Built-in snapshot backs up open files
• Minimal CPU burden
• Synthetic Base Image for Each Point In Time
• Application & Database Integration (SQL Server, Exchange, Active Directory)
• Software on secondary disk tracks a snapshot after each BLI backup is completed
• Does not require significant storage for many copies of data on secondary storage
• Only saves changed blocks
• Does not require staging environment for recovery
• No recovery staging storage/disk
• No recovery-time resource drain (CPU)
• No recovery-time delay while full volume is being logically “recreated”