case study
Eighty per cent of The Academy , Selsey , was destroyed by fire in August 2016 .
Implementing an online back up solution In 2015 , Daniel decided it was time to update The Academy ’ s back up strategy . He attended the BETT Show ( British Educational Training and Technology trade show ) for guidance . He met Redstor at the show and following a demonstration and trial of its product , Redstor ’ s Backup Service for Schools ( RBUSS ) was rolled out across the school in July 2015 .
‘ The implementation process was really straightforward and smooth ,’ recalls Daniel .
‘ I had a conference call with one of Redstor ’ s technicians , and after a test to make sure everything was working we were able to roll out the service overnight .’
RBUSS automatically protects data residing on desktops , laptops , servers and network attached storage devices according to retention policies and schedules set by the user . Data is compressed , encrypted and sent to one of Redstor ’ s secure state-of-theart data centres before it is mirrored to a second secure Redstor data centre , ensuring the data is safely stored off site for disaster recovery and regulatory compliance purposes . When data recovery is required , users can simply select the data to restore using an intuitive interface or for large data sets , the data can be securely couriered back to site for local , high speed LAN based recovery .
The implementation of Redstor ’ s online back up solution was very efficient with no system downtime during the shift from the tape based to online back up process . This ensured that The Academy ’ s transition was pain free with the end result being that Selsey was successfully backing up over 1TB of critical student data in a much shorter back up window , with significantly less management overhead required .
Daniel comments , ‘ A noticeable difference using Redstor ’ s online back up has been the time taken to complete a full back up . In the past , it would take approximately two full
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