What is Snapshot EFB?
Snapshot EFB is an Enterprise Disaster Recovery, Back-up and Restore Appliance.
What are the key differentiators?
Snapshot EFB is a revolutionary new concept in data protection solutions for desktops, laptops and distributed servers. A disc based storage solution that provides a comprehensive answer to an organisation's backup, recovery and disaster recovery needs. Snapshot has been designed to simplify and automate backup, recovery and disaster recovery processes, improving system availability.
Snapshot EFB employs Intelligent Data Flow Optimisation (IDFO) which compresses and de-duplicates files across machines to maximise backup space on the Snapshot Appliance, achieving more than 95% compression in most cases. Through file versioning and archiving the solution provides a truly reliable roll-back to a point in time; whether it is an entire system or just a single file. IDFO dramatically reduces the amount of data transmitted across the network performing a full backup to disk for the price of an incremental backup.
Once a full machine backup has been performed the Snapshot EFB appliance only ever backs up files that have changed, and then only if it doesn't already have them from a previous backup; even if the file was originally collected from another machine. Using this approach Snapshot EFB significantly reduces the amount of data being held and the time a machine takes to perform a backup. For example, in the case of backing up 100 laptops after they have received a Windows XP OS patch. This will result in only the first laptop transmitting a copy of the OS patch to the backup server. For the remaining 99 laptops the backup server will note that they have the OS patch files and not request further data, meaning faster backup, lower network usage, a lesser amount of user disruption and less storage used for the backup.
Snapshot EFB provides not only data protection but also peace of mind. Inbuilt into Snapshot EFB is the ability to assure a machine and its data can be restored. Using virtual machine technology Snapshot EFB is able to restore a physical machine backup into a virtual machine creating a fully working clone.
Breaking the link between physical hardware and production server backup is the key differentiator behind the Snapshot EFB's ability to simplify and reduce the cost of disaster recovery. The benefits of this in a disaster recovery scenario are no more mirroring of hardware between production and disaster recovery, maintaining separate disaster recovery builds that need to be kept in sync with production. Just let Snapshot EFB build a virtual disaster recovery environment from the latest production backups. Snapshot EFB holds a register of all license keys of all software products resident on the machines being backed up.