Off-site Backup


CCS Cloud Storage for Off-Site and Disaster Recovery Backup Options

Are you putting business-critical data at risk? Operating without offsite data protection is a gamble that over half of all small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) take every day. Due to the high cost of online storage methods, only about 10% of SMBs store their valuable information in data centers. Many still use backup tapes, which require constant human intervention and often fail, thus providing little to no real protection.

A Better Solution: CCS Cloud Storage has reinvented online storage. Here are some of the major benefits CCS Cloud Storage offers:

  • No more tapes – Use existing spare drive space on your current server or add inexpensive external drives.
  • Affordable Flat Fee – CCS Cloud Storage offers a low, monthly rate instead of per gigabyte charges.
  • Friction-free Adoption – CCS Cloud Storage adds offsite storage of your existing backup files.
  • Enterprise-class Disaster Recovery – You get fully redundant data protection along with the efficiency of local restore capability.
  • Military-grade Data Protection – Online storage with built-in “RAID-96” redundancy and 256-bit AES encryption provides utmost protection against data loss or breach.

How does it work?

The CCS Cloud Storage is a revolutionary solution that combines the best practices of disaster recovery, data security, and distributed networking. It’s simple:

  • CCS Cloud Storage handles the management of network security and storage.
  • Encrypted on your machine using federally certified 256-bit AES algorithm
  • Divided up into redundant fragments using industry standard Reed-Solomon scheme for robust durability and high availability
  • Distributed to multiple destination nodes to ensure no single node holds all the data
  • Sent and retrieved in parallel to maximize the speed of backup and restore
  • Easily recovered in the event of a disaster

The CCS Cloud Storage service is easy-to-use, affordable and eco-friendly. It is the long-awaited antidote to unreliable tape-based backup and high cost, resource-intensive data center storage.

StorageCraft® ShadowProtect® Small Business Server™

ShadowProtect Small Business Server™ provides fast and reliable disaster recovery, data protection and system migration to get servers online as quickly as possible, including bare metal recovery to the same system, dissimilar hardware or to and from virtual environments. Protect your entire server environment including the operating system, applications like Microsoft™ Exchange and SQL, and your data.

Centrally manage your point-in-time backup images and restore them in a matter of minutes. The easy-to-use management console allows you to simultaneously push install ShadowProtect to all your Windows servers from a central location and view the backup status of all your protected Windows servers.

In addition, ShadowProtect Small Business Server provides you with VirtualBoot™ technology — for failover to a virtual server — as well as a virtual converter to convert ShadowProtect backup images into virtual machines.

ShadowProtect ImageManager™ allows you to consolidate point-in-time backup images on a daily, weekly and monthly basis for simplified management. Automatic verification and re-verification tools ensure your backups are in a good state when server recovery is necessary.

ShadowProtect Small Business Server provides the following benefits:

  • Rapid recovery from bare metal, to dissimilar hardware or to and from virtual environments.
  • Integrated backup administration from a management console.
  • ShadowProtect ImageManager to automatically consolidate backup image files.
  • Verification and re-verification of backup images.
  • VirtualBoot technology for quick failover to a virtual server.
  • Converter tool to convert to .VHD or .VMDK
  • Automatic backup of SQL, Exchange and other critical applications.
  • Granular recovery of individual files and folders in moments.
  • Simplified migration to new Windows servers.
  • Scheduler for automatic full and incremental backups.

Upgrade your standard support (maintenance) with StorageCraft Premium Support

Get access to StorageCraft's world-class support, 24 hours a day, seven days a week with StorageCraft Premium Support (requires an active Standard Support or Maintenance agreement). Let our highly-skilled professionals help you with your support needs. Our technical support team is based in StorageCraft's U.S. headquarters, where our support pros can consult with development engineers in the unlikely event a support case needs to be escalated.

Premium support includes the following:

  • 24-hour telephone support for Emergency support issues
  • 24-hour online support for high, medium and low-severity support issues
  • Priority placement in support queue during regular business hours
  • StorageCraft Premium Support is purchased on an annual basis as an add-on to the StorageCraft Maintenance agreement.

Requirements: ONLY for Windows Small Business Server 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2011.

Maintenance: 1 year of maintenance included.

StorageCraft® ShadowProtect® Server™

ShadowProtect Server™ provides fast and reliable disaster recovery, data protection and system migration to get servers online as quickly as possible, including bare metal recovery to the same system, dissimilar hardware or to and from virtual environments. Protect your entire server environment including the operating system, applications like Microsoft™ Exchange and SQL, and your data.

Centrally manage your point-in-time backup images and restore them in a matter of minutes. The easy-to-use management console allows you to simultaneously push install ShadowProtect to all your Windows servers from a central location and view the backup status of all your protected Windows servers. In addition, ShadowProtect Server provides you with VirtualBoot™ technology — for failover to a virtual server — as well as a virtual converter to convert ShadowProtect backup images into virtual machines.

ShadowProtect ImageManager™ allows you to consolidate point-in-time backup images on a daily, weekly and monthly basis for simplified management. Automatic verification and re-verification tools ensure your backups are in a good state when server recovery is necessary.

ShadowProtect Server provides the following benefits:

  • Rapid recovery from bare metal, to dissimilar hardware or to and from virtual environments
  • Integrated backup administration from a management console
  • ShadowProtect ImageManager to automatically consolidate backup image files
  • Verification and re-verification of backup images
  • VirtualBoot technology for quick failover to a virtual server
  • Converter tool to convert to .VHD or .VMDK
  • Automatic backup of SQL, Exchange and other critical applications
  • Granular recovery of individual files and folders in moments
  • Simplified migration to new Windows servers
  • Scheduler for automatic full and incremental backups

Requirements: Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 families.

StorageCraft® ShadowProtect® Desktop™

ShadowProtect Desktop™ provides fast and reliable disaster recovery, data protection and system migration to get desktops and laptops online as quickly as possible, including bare metal recovery to the same system, dissimilar hardware or to and from virtual environments. Protect everything on your desktops and laptops: operating systems, applications like Microsoft™ Office, configuration and personal settings and your data.

ShadowProtect provides you with VirtualBoot™ technology - for failover to a virtual desktop - as well as a virtual converter to convert ShadowProtect backup images into virtual machines.

ShadowProtect ImageManager™ allows you to consolidate point-in-time backup images on a daily, weekly and monthly basis for simplified management. Automatic verification and re-verification tools ensure your backups are in a known good state when recovery is necessary.

ShadowProtect Desktop is an automated backup that works in the background. In the event of a disaster, its flexible recovery options allow you to complete granular recovery of files and folders or full bare metal recovery in a matter of minutes. Hardware Independent Restore™ (HIR) technology makes it quick and easy to recover to the same system, to dissimilar hardware or to and from virtual environments. ShadowProtect's HIR feature also makes system migration to a new desktop or laptop or consolidation to virtual environments a straightforward process.

ShadowProtect® Desktop™ provides the following benefits:

  • Rapid recovery from bare metal, to dissimilar hardware or to and from virtual environments.
  • Integrated backup administration from a management console.
  • ShadowProtect ImageManager to automatically consolidate backup image files.
  • Verification and re-verification of backup images.
  • VirtualBoot technology for quick failover to a virtual server.
  • Automatic backup of your entire system.
  • Granular recovery of individual files and folders in moments.
  • Simplified migration to new Windows desktops or laptops.
  • Scheduler for automatic full and incremental backups.

Requirement: Windows 2000 Professional, XP, Vista or Windows 7.

Bottom Line

Save Time. Minimize the time required to restore desktops, laptops and data. Restore or migrate to a new system with HIR or quickly browse to specific files and folders to perform recovery of your data.

Save Money. Get system back up and running in a matter of minutes, rather than hours.

Save Space. ShadowProtect® Desktop™ allows you to consolidate your backup images to simplify management and minimize the amount of disk space required for system backups.