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How does BitLeap’s Automatic Offsite Backup work?
BitLeap®’s offsite data backup service is the latest and best technology the data recovery market has to offer. Using exclusive data replication methods, BitLeap is able to maintain a large amount of data offsite by using only a fraction of the Internet bandwidth available on mainstream broadband connections like Cable, DSL and T1s.
This advance in data replication is accomplished by transferring only your new files and the parts of files that change over time. Under this technique even a multiple gigabyte Access™ database files can be replicated offsite by only transferring a few megabytes of data at a time.
What’s the best part of BitLeap’s offsite data backup service? It is completely automatic! Once setup, your backups are conducted on a schedule as your files change without you doing any work! You no longer have to worry about who is out sick or on vacation for your backups to work.
Read on to find out exactly how BitLeap’s technology works to help protect your data.
Incremental and Bit-Differential Efficiency
BitLeap has developed an innovative method of bit differential analysis, which allows us to very efficiently store your backed-up data and also makes our monthly service plans more affordable than most of our competition. You can see examples of this by searching for “online backup” in Google and comparing BitLeap’s pricing plans to other companies.
Once your LeapServ backup system is installed, it collects all of your current data from each of your servers for the first time during an initial backup period. After your initial backup is completed, you can set the LeapServ to check for changed and new data as often as you would like. When your LeapServ identifies new or changed information, it will analyze each file at the bit level and only has to copy and transfer the new bit sequences in the files themselves. This techniques saves you a lot of Internet bandwidth and keeps your cost down for storing many revisions of the same file over time.
There is no difference with BitLeap’s backup system between a full and incremental backup like you may be used to with traditional tape backup systems. BitLeap’s backup system looks at all of your data every time a backup runs to make sure you have the latest version of all your files backed up.
Hardware-based Backup Advantages
BitLeap’s appliance server, called a LeapServ, sits on your network and connects to your servers you want backed up. It pulls your data from the servers, compresses, encrypts and sends it securely offsite to one of our secure storage locations. That storage location then replicates your data onto a second separate storage server. Therefore, your data is actually backed up three times with our system: once on your network and twice offsite.
Do not worry, it is not complicated to use a LeapServ. In fact, you do not need to plug a monitor, keyboard or mouse into it. To start using your LeapServ, simply plug in the power cord and connect it to your network.
That’s it – after you have made those connections just push the power button on the front. Your LeapServ will automatically find your network’s Internet connection, securely connect to BitLeap’s data storage network and you can begin backing up your data.
Best of all, you do not need to worry about high maintenance costs with your LeapServ. BitLeap’s management service makes sure your LeapServ is always running at top notch. BitLeap recommends that our customers use a hardware-based solution to conduct their automatic offsite data backups. Using a LeapServ appliance at your location offers several advantages over software-based backup solutions:
- Dedicated processing power to manage complex backup routines that increase efficiency and save you bandwidth.
- Backup solution does not hamper your existing server(s) ability to perform.
- No need to learn how or pay someone else to install, setup, or maintain software.
- Backups are quick and easy to setup out of the box.
- LeapServ acts as a local data backup on your network.
- Data restores can come directly from the LeapServ on your network, reducing lengthy download times.
- LeapServ can provide additional file storage capacity on your network.
Safe & Secure Offsite Storage
BitLeap protects your data by storing it in multiple geographically separated offsite locations after it is securely transferred from your location. Customer information on the BitLeap data storage network is encrypted and secure. It is transferred from your LeapServ under the highest level of encryption, stored in encrypted parts and available for access only by authenticated users over a secure connection.