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Why use a hardware-based backup solution?
BitLeap® recommends that our customers use a hardware-based solution to conduct their automatic offsite data backups. Our innovative hardware-based backup solution, using a LeapServ® appliance at the customer’s location, offers several advantages over software-based 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 appliance can act as another 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.
It Almost Fixes Itself
BitLeap’s 24/7 management package means the ongoing maintenance on a LeapServ is more affordable than a typical PC server. At less than $20 per month per server, BitLeap’s management costs represent less than two industry standard onsite maintenance hours per year! It would not normally even be possible to track an entire year’s PC-related security patches in only two hours of billable time.
BitLeap’s 24/7 management comes with every offsite backup plan and includes:
- Maintenance of OS & BitLeap software
- Installation of new software versions
- Security patch updates
- Hardware health monitoring
- Processor load monitoring
- Bandwidth usage monitoring