Site-to-Site Backup

Offsite Data Backup

When disasters strike, small-to-medium-size businesses (SMBs) are more financially sensitive to business disruption than larger enterprises. This is because SMBs are more vulnerable to lost revenues and productivity when vital business systems and data become unavailable. In today’s highly-competitive 24x7 marketplace, losing even a single day’s data—including communications and transactions with prospects, customers, suppliers and partners—can put an SMB at risk of going out of business. In an emergency, it is essential for SMBs to minimize business systems downtime and quickly recover crucial data and applications.

Single-site backups alone are inadequate protection against fires, floods, earthquakes, or any other disaster that could make the primary site inaccessible or unviable. For fully effective disaster recovery, SMBs also need redundant backups at secondary data storage sites. Yet SMBs struggle to find solutions that offer comprehensive offsite or site-to-site backup and disaster recovery options, while still remaining cost-effective within SMB budgets.

SonicWALL® Continuous Data Protection (CDP) solutions provide automatic transparent onsite and offsite backup, as well as flexible disaster recovery options to fit the needs and budgets of any SMB, including Local Archiving, Bare Metal Recovery, Offsite Data Backup, and Site-to-Site Data Backup.

The SonicWALL CDP Site-to-Site Data Backup solution automatically replicates mission-critical data to a secondary offsite CDP appliance. All data is securely transmitted and encrypted in flight and at rest using industry 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Because the offsite appliance always stores the latest version of mission-critical data, administrator can easily recovery data and get SMB systems up and running quickly after a disaster.

Features and Benefits

Continuous Offsite Data Protection ensures that current copies of files and multiple point-in-time versions of application data such as Exchange and SQL databases are replicated in real time to the offsite CDP Appliance for disaster recovery.

Minimal bandwidth impact on the network is ensured by only transmitting incremental changes to the offsite appliance.

Point-and-click data recovery enables the administrator to get business-critical systems up and running quickly and easily.

AES 256-bit encryption key ensures all data is securely transmitted and stored encrypted.

Confidential encryption key provides each end-user with total control of their data. SonicWALL employees have no access to the key.

Flexible configuration settings allow the administrator to send any or all mission-critical data residing on the CDP appliance to another CDP appliance.

Typical Deployment Scenario

Redundant backup within local network

Additional layer of protection when offsite is not required

Eliminate data loss at a cost-effective price point

Customer in complete control of their data protection strategy

Off-site data backup at secondary location protects against disasters at primary site