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| How it Works |
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| Download and install
the DataGuardian client software. |
| Configure your backup
set(s) with the files and folders you want protected. |
| Monitor your backups
via log files and automated e-mail alerts. |
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| THAT'S REALLY ALL THERE IS TO
IT! |
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| Configuration and Setup |
| DataGuardian comes fully configured
and ready to use. Once downloaded and installed, all you need
to do is define a backup schedule with files and folders you
want backed-up. |
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| Backup |
| Users can define one or more
backup sets to be run automatically at one or multiple times
each day. Your initial backup will compress, securely encrypt
and backup every selected file to our secure data centre. Subsequent
backups are performed incrementally - meaning only the changes
made to the files are sent to the backup server. Incremental
backups greatly reduce storage requirements and Internet bandwidth,
thus optimising backup times and server storage space. |
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| Local Redundancy |
| DataGuardian provides users
with a local backup store configurable to any local or network
drive. |
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| Copy to Disk |
| DataGuardian Professional supports
onsite backups to CD/DVD media. The encrypted media can be safely
stored or transported to our Data Centre and copied onto the
Backup Server to optimise large volume initial online backups. |
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| Versioning |
| By
default, DataGuardian maintains the last 30 days of file versions on the Backup server
(user configurable up to 27 years). |
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| Purge |
| Users can configure the client
to automatically purge (delete) any backups on the backup server
older than “#” days. |
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| Restore |
| Users can restore any available
file version(s) from the Backup server via the user interface.
Simply select the appropriate folder(s) and/or file(s) and click
the "Restore“ button. Upon request, each file is
automatically combined with the appropriate incremental backups,
securely transfered to your computer, decrypted, uncompressed
and restored to its original (or optionally temporary) location. |
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| Security |
| Your files are encrypted and
stored at multiple, redundant secure data centres. Even if a
fire, flood, or other disaster destroyed one of our data centres,
your data remains protected and available, on-demand - 24x7x365. |
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| Encryption Key |
| When you subscribe to
DataGuardian, you will select a username and password. By default,
DataGuardian utilises this password as your encryption key. Your
encryption key is stored on your computer and you are the ONLY one
who knows it. For security purposes, we do not store it on our
servers, nor do we keep a record of it. WE CANNOT ACCESS YOUR FILES.
Since you are the only one who knows your secret key, please
write it down and keep it in a secure place. If your secret
encryption key is ever lost, you will not be able to access
or recover any of your backup files. |
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