Business Backup

Everything you wanted to know about Business Backup

  • How can I get started with Business Backup in 15 minutes?

    Contact Safe Swiss Cloud Sales to get an account. Once you have received your account details:

    1. Login to the WebGUI of the Business Backup Service and download the backup agent.
    2. Install the backup agent on every desktop and server you want to backup
    3. Check the central dashboard of the Business Backup Service to schedule or see the status of your backups.

    Finally, test a restore: this can take more than 15 minutes, depending on the size of your backup.
    Warning: always restore image backups to a new server / VM / desktop. Restoring an image backup to the source device, will destroy it.

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  • What are the main security features of Business Backup?

    Business Backup provides the following security features:

    • Encrypted backups (encryption of data at rest)
    • All connections between servers while writing backups are encrypted (encryption of data in motion)
    • All logins require two factor authentication (TFA)
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  • What are the main characteristics of the Business Backup?

    Encryption: all backups are encrypted by default.

    Compression: all backups are compressed by default.

    De-duplication: Business Backup supports client side de-duplication.

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  • What sort of backups are supported?

    Safe Swiss Cloud’s Business Backups are infinitely incremental. This makes its use of backup storage very efficient.

    A convenient web user interface allows easy restores of files or full backups.

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  • What sort of storage can be used for Business Backup?

    The default is Safe Swiss Cloud’s own S3 compatible object storage. This object storage is always mirrored to a second data center within 24 hours. Having your data in two data centres is ideal for disaster recovery (DR).

    Safe Swiss Cloud’s Business Backup supports a number of storage types:

    • Safe Swiss Cloud’s S3 compatible object storage
    • AWS S3 object storage
    • FTP and SFTP
    • SWIFT
    • Any mounted filesystem like Windows mapped drive or Linux FUSE mount and
    • many other cloud storage services.
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