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Continous data protection

Monday, October 5th, 2009
An overview of how continous data protection works

An overview of how continous data protection works

Freewind Hosting offers all shared and reseller hosting customers with R1Soft’s continuous data protection software solution providing an added layer of security to all customers’ data.

R1Soft’s continuous data protection is an application that performs high performance disk-based data protection for servers running either Windows or Linux operating systems.

R1Soft’s continuous data protection suite comprises of CDP servers and CDP agents, with the agents synchronising snapshots (differential backups) with the CDP servers. The CDP server protects disk volume data from the connected agent machines and stores them at disk level using highly efficient block-level changes.

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