Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Solutions

Data backup is a key function in all server installations and should be considered the most important element of your disaster recovery and business continuity plan. Colo4 provides an affordable, easy-to-use continuous data protection solution that safeguards your mission-critical information assets. Our reliable, robust and secure backup services provide:

• Enterprise-strength
• Easy installation, management and scalability
• 24x7x365 near continuous backups

Colo4's continuous data protection solution gives you secure data backup and restoration capabilities in real time. Manage full or partial backups of your server directly from an easy-to-use Web interface. Minimize or eliminate the threat of data loss with our simple system that allows backups and file restores to be completed within minutes, and without an impact to your server performance.

Our Continuous Data Protection (CDP) solution is powered by R1Soft, a leader in server backups. R1Soft's CDP is a server software application that enables disk-based protection and disaster recovery for Linux servers and workstations running Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems. CDP Server protects disk volume data over the network storing point-in-time snapshots in disk-based storage. Benefits include:

• Near Continuous Backups
  Enjoy the peace of mind of a backup solution capable of providing hundreds of recovery points per day, scheduled as little as 5 or 10 minutes apart. During normal host operation, R1Soft's CDP Agent keeps a journal of disk changes. Incremental backups know what sectors on the disk have changed before the backup even starts, eliminating the need for file-by-file or block-by-block comparisons every backup.
• Bare Metal Disaster Recovery
  Restore servers directly from disk-based backup. Unlike traditional backup software, there is no need to first partition your drive and install the operating system.
• Remote Administration
  Manage your backups, restores, and logs remotely using our simple Web-based interface. Control the frequency of recovery points and even restore individual files or tables within a mySQL database with a single click.
• High Performance
  Reduce overhead and increase throughput with sector-based backups. Servers can be fully operational with minimal performance impact during backups. Perform backups almost anytime, even on busy servers.
• Compression
  Reduce backup storage by as much as 90% when combining our backup solution with standard compression. Incremental sector-based backups copy only the disk sectors that have changed since the last backup instead of traditional system-wide file-by-file backup.
• End-to-End Strong Encryption
  Protect data continuously by using RSA keys that encrypt data while in storage and during network transmission. Decryption during a restore is only possible when the encryption key holder enters their pass phrase.
• Data Integrity
  Maintain the highest levels of data integrity. During backup and restore, data is verified using MD5 checksums.
• Snapshots
  View consistent point-in-time system-wide backup images.
• Small Backup Windows
  Complete incremental backups within minutes, because only changed disk sectors are copied between backups.
• Open File Backups
  Protect open files with a total solution that includes built-in support for backing up open files.