{"id":9449,"date":"2009-02-20T15:04:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9449"},"modified":"2009-02-20T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"my-online-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9449","title":{"rendered":"My Online Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"

We sell secure online backup and data protection services<\/a> at work based on the Iron Mountain technologies.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got the Connected<\/a> laptop\/PC backup product on my work laptop.\u00a0 It uses VSS to grab the file blocks<\/em> that have changed, encrypts them using AES128, compressed the data and sends it up to a vault in our physically secure data centre where we replicated it onto another independent store.\u00a0 Of course, that\u2019s all managed using MS System Center \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to talk all the marketing stuff and sell the story but it\u2019s another thing to put it to test.\u00a0 I work from home quite a lot thanks to technology like VM\u2019s, VPN, ILO, RDP, IM, etc.\u00a0 I\u2019ve a simple policy set up for my Connected agent to backup once a day Monday to Friday \u2013 we can do it much more frequently but I don\u2019t need it.\u00a0 I generated a lot of data over the last 24 hours, 355.1MB to be precise.\u00a0 This is what happened when today\u2019s backup took place just recently: <\/p>\n

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Connected identified the new blocks on my file system that were unique, i.e. not backed up already as parts of other files.\u00a0 It then compressed the data and encrypted it.\u00a0 I may have generated over 355MB of data but only 23.6MB was actually transmitted over my small domestic ADSL line and I didn\u2019t even notice it while working.\u00a0 That\u2019s sweet \u2026 and my data is securely and reliably backed up. <\/p>\n

I do what I preach so my laptop is configured with redirected folders and offline files.\u00a0 When I go back to the office on Monday my \u201cMy Documents\u201d folder will synchronise with our SBS box.\u00a0 And there, LiveVault<\/a> will backup my data once to triplicate independent stores in our Dublin-based tier IV physically secure data centre \u2026 after de-duplicating, compressing and encrypting it with AES256. <\/p>\n

The important thing is that I\u2019m effectively a road warrior generating files that are valuable to the business.\u00a0 The business cannot afford to lose data while I\u2019m away from the office.\u00a0 So Connected takes care of that by securely backing up the folders I want it to back up (or are set by policy).\u00a0 If the laptop is lost then my data is safely encrypted and can be remotely destroyed thanks to DataDefense<\/a>.\u00a0 I can safely restore my laptop data onto either a new laptop or our server in the office using the Connected web portal. <\/p>\n

How is this solution different to the myriad of offerings out there?\u00a0 Firstly it is secure.\u00a0 I mean really<\/em> secure.\u00a0 Security starts at the front door and unlike some computer room<\/u> <\/em>service providers the Tier IV facility we use has 24 * 7 security with at least 2 people on site.\u00a0 You do not get in there without them expecting or authorising you.\u00a0 I know of one place where people have been known to walk in off the street and into the computer room without meeting anyone.\u00a0 The level of encryption and compression is excellent \u2013 we can\u2019t even read customer data unless they give us their key which they can store in escrow with Iron Mountain outside of our access.\u00a0 Data for laptops\/PC\u2019s is duplicated on independent stores while data for servers is stored in triplicate on independent stores.\u00a0 The technology is reliable.\u00a0 Iron Mountain claim a 99.999% recoverability rate and we\u2019ve yet to have a failure *touch wood*.\u00a0 The software is easy to use \u2026 it is \u201cbackup as a service\u201d so you can access a secure web portal to manage backups and restore data.\u00a0 It\u2019s reseller friendly.\u00a0 Most of all, if you\u2019re worried about the Data Protection Act or regulatory compliance (IFSRA, SOX, HIPAA, etc) then this is the solution for you.\u00a0 For Irish companies, a big question is, \u201cwhere is your data?\u201d.\u00a0 You\u2019ll probably be contravening one of the above regulations if it\u2019s gone outside of Ireland so when looking at online backup you should ask \u201cwhere will my data be?\u201d.\u00a0 Our backups never leave Ireland. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s my story on that.\u00a0 Back to regularly scheduled programming. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We sell secure online backup and data protection services at work based on the Iron Mountain technologies.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got the Connected laptop\/PC backup product on my work laptop.\u00a0 It uses VSS to grab the file blocks that have changed, encrypts them using AES128, compressed the data and sends it up to a vault in our … Continue reading “My Online Backup”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t