Idealstor IBAC
Idealstor Ibac for Windows is a data protection software solution for the most demanding business needs. Its scalability, performance, and reliability make it an ideal backup solution for enterprise networks.
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Idealstor Case Study
Idealstor provides us with near-instantaneous recoverability of data that is fundamental to success and survival in our business environment.
Rob Evans
Head of Payroll Services
Selima Bureau Services Ltd
Ibac for Windows has been developed to speed up and simplify the job of backing up critical data. Imagine if each day you could parse every file in the enterprise and only back up those files that have changed since the last backup was run. This would save enormous amounts of time compared to the traditional backup method that involves backing up entire files, databases and objects each time a backup is run regardless of whether they have changed from the previous backup. Ibac for Windows introduces a new medium for data protection and retention that logically looks at the process of backing up mission critical data.
The Ibac Difference
What makes Ibac unique is that is was developed by the manufacturers of disk based backup hardware that had seen the shortcomings of current backup software that was on the market. Ibac was developed to look at backup, restore and disaster recovery in a new light by introducing concepts that are new to the backup software market:
- Agent free backup - Ibac does not require any agents to be installed on the remote servers to be backed up.
- Native format backup - Rather than putting data into a proprietary format, Ibac completes a high speed copy of data in its native format so that the backup media is identical to the data found on the production server.
- Backing up only changed files - Once an initial backup or baseline backup has been run, Ibac intelligently senses which data has been changed since the last backup and only backs up the changes and fuses them into a full backup. This provides theoretical speeds up to 10GB/minute when backing up any type of server.
- Lightning fast restores - Administrators and users can quickly access backup data at the file level and restore data in mere seconds. Because Ibac keeps data in its native format, files can be restored by name or instantly accessed on the backup server without requiring a restore. Imagine if you could just redirect your users to your backup data as opposed to restoring your data before it can be used.
- Unique DR Capabilities - Ibac allows backup administrators to failover servers to the backup server temporarily until the production server is fixed. The backup server actually assumes the role of the down server and takes it place until the server has been restored to production capabilities.
- Database and Open file backup - Unlike other backup software where multiple agents are required to backup an entire system (example - SQL and Exchange), Ibac only requires the optional Open Volume Snapshot license to backup both databases and open files.
How does Ibac Work ?
Ibac leverages the random access nature of disk to create a high speed copy of your data. Ibac can determine if any changes to a file or its attributes have occurred since it was last backed up to a specific media. If modifications are detected, only the changed files are backed up. This can eliminate the unnecessary copying of large amounts of data, thus significantly speeding up backups.
