Protection Methodology

The e-fort conceptual diagram (above) shows a high level view of the service offering. Essentially, target data is collected by DPM from all identified systems and stored to redundant disk within the e-fort Primary Node, which is located within the customer premises. This data is then replicated to a customer-specific e-fort Secondary Node, located within the e-fort secondary offsite storage facility.

Recovery Methodology

Should the need for recovery arise, the preferred option is recovery from the e-fort Primary Node which houses data up to 28 days of age (typical). Should the required data be older than this, or the e-fort Primary Node is unavailable, then data is recovered from the e-fort Secondary Node across the wire. In the event the recovery request is deemed too large for the available e-fort WAN bandwidth, e-fort will deliver the data to the client site via alternate methods.

The system offers the following typical granularity of protection (can be customised for individual needs);
File Data: Primary Node daily recovery for up to 28 days, then Secondary Node weekly for up to 52 weeks.
Exchange, SQL, SharePoint (excluding file data): Primary Node daily recovery for up to 28 days, then Secondary Node daily recovery for up to 365 days.