Digital Seattle Digital Vault
Data Backup & Disaster Recovery

Digital Seattle offers a comprehensive disk-based Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) solution. With Digital Seattle's Digital Vault BDR Service, near real-time backups happen as often as every 15 minutes, so your downtime is minimized. Recovery from system or data loss takes only minutes, not hours or days.

Our BDR models are Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices installed with Business Continuity Software (BCS) that run on the Windows Storage Server 2003 platform.

Digital Vault Advantages vs. Tape

Tapes have traditionally been the medium for backing up data, but tapes make a less-than-ideal backup solution. Compared to Digital Seattle's disk-based BDR Solution, tapes are time intensive, infrquent, and rely on constant human interaction to continue operating.

Digital Vault Features

Standby Server
With Instant Virtualization capability, in less than 30 minutes, the NAS device can be configured to function as a Standby server. This eliminates costly downtime due to server hardware failures.

Disaster Recovery Testing
Virtualization capabilities allow disaster recovery testing by verifying your backup images. Your system can be restored in minutes, not days. This provides built-in redundancy and allows shorter recovery time.

Backup and Recovery
Our disk-based NAS allows for quick and easy point-in-time snapshots, which take just minutes and won't impact your environment. Restoration is just as easy: Mount your backup file as a drive on the NAS and copy what you need locally or to the network.

Application Recovery
Backup and restore SQL, Sharepoint, and Active Directory databases without additional agents.

Mailbox and Message Level Recovery
Perform mailbox and message restorations faster than ever. With short data recovery times and frequent backup recovery points, setbacks are fewer and employees are able to stay connected and productive.

Exchange Migration
Perform Exchange Server migrations with the Exchange Recovery Tools by restoring all of your Exchange Mailboxes to the new Mail server without ever bringing the old mail server online. Accomplish all this without time intensive backups, as this information is extracted directly from the Exchange Message Store.

Bare Metal Restore
Bare Metal Restore gives you the ability to restore to a virtual server or dissimilar hardware configuration for ease of recovery after a disaster. This gives you flexibility for restorations and doesn't require the cost and effort of keeping a standby server ready at all times.

Recovery Process
When it is time to restore your virtualized server on the NAS device back to physical hardware, a boot CD-ROM is inserted into the new physical hardware. The new server maps to the NAS device and begins to pull the latest backup image. Once the image is copied to the server, the hardware abstraction layer is manipulated and inserts the necessary device drivers for the new hardware. Once the server is completely restored, backups continue to take place on their scheduled interval.

Replication Options
Digital Seattle's Digital Vault Service also provides features to synchronize your backups to a local or network destination. This copies your entire backup chain to a redundant location for archiving and disaster recovery. Synchronizations can be scheduled or run on demand. Retrieve images and restore back to the system if needed from archives.

Offsite Storage
Digital Seattle's Digital Vault Service also offers offsite storage that provides the option of synchronizing your backups offsite to our secure colocation facilities, all through an industry standard 256-bit encrypted tunnel. Be secure in the knowledge your backups have not been compromised during transfer. If your site is destroyed, you're protected. We will ship you a replacement BDR next day air. Virtualize your servers on it until replacement hardware is procured.




For more information about our Data Backup & Disaster Recovery Solutions, please contact us at: 206.709.9556 or e-mail info@digitalseattle.com.

Digital Seattle is an IT support and managed information technology provider serving Western Washington's small to medium-sized businesses throughout the greater Puget Sound area, including Seattle, Bellevue, Tukwila, Burien and surrounding areas.