NMS TotalCare Backup and Disaster Recovery(BDR)
Protecting what matters most
Q. What hardware and software is required for this solution?
A. The NMS TotalCare BDR appliance is a Networked Attached Storage (NAS) device. Think of it like another server on your network. It’s a complete hardware and software solution in one device. It doesn’t even need a keyboard, monitor or mouse. All it needs is power and a network connection.
Q. How often are my backups taken?
A. Backups may be taken as frequently as every 15 minutes or once a day, depending on your preferences. For maximum benefit, we recommend taking the backups as frequently as feasible. Most of our clients backup every 15 minutes.
Q. How easy is it to restore data from the NMS TOTALCARE BDR?
A. Restoring data from the NMS TOTALCARE BDR is as simple as copying files between hard drives. That’s one of the main benefits of this technology. Unlike tapes, which take time to rewind, inventory and locate files that need to be restored, finding files to restore from the NMS TOTALCARE BDR is as easy as finding and copying a file via Windows Explorer.
Q. Where is the off-site backup data stored?
A. The NMS TOTALCARE BDR sends your data to two secure data centers; one located in Maryland and a second in Arizona. This accomplishes three things: 1) It gives redundant destinations for the data in the event Internet congestion is slowing down data from reaching its primary data center. 2) It provides redundancy for the safe off-site storage of your backup data and 3) It provides time zone advantages in the event you have a disaster. If a disaster strikes at 5 pm Eastern time, the Arizona data center still has several hours to ship a replacement NMS TOTALCARE BDR loaded with your data.
Q. Is my data vulnerable at the off-site data center?
A. No. Your backup data is secured and encrypted using a private encryption key that is only known to you and NMS. This means that while your data is stored at the off-site data center, the staff at the data center can only see that your backup files are there, not the actual data within them. This system meets all federal requirements for data security.
Q. How does the NMS TOTALCARE BDR take over for my server, if necessary?
A. The NMS TOTALCARE BDR uses advanced virtualization technologies to allow your backups stored on the device to be mounted into a virtual server that takes the place of the failed server. Simply stated, your users will not be aware that the server is running virtually on the NMS TOTALCARE BDR, as opposed to the original server to which they have always connected. That’s the real power of NMS TOTALCARE BDR.
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