Site Backups

Scotserve delivers data protection using R1Soft

Leading Scottish small-business internet services company Scotserve (Scotserve.co.uk) has partnered with R1Soft (Righteous Software Inc.), guaranteeing  data protection and high-performance backup for its premium hosting accounts.

Data  is replicated in snapshots, which means every change to computer data is automatically saved to a separate storage location. Because the process fundamentally captures each version of the data, it enables the administrator or user to restore data down to file level to any data backup point.

“Our premium hosting packages – which run on 16 core servers, complete with R1Soft backups and multiple MX (mail) for high uptime and redundancy – is ideal for clients running high traffic e-commerce websites,” explains Bryon,  proprietor of Scotserve.

Never lose data

Multiple methods are used to capture the continuous changes, each using different technologies to serve varying needs. Solutions provided by Scotserve via R1Soft provide the smallest granularities of restorable objects, from logical objects like mail boxes, files, database files, logs and messages to crash-consistent images..

“We chose R1Soft because of its ability to deliver true user friendly extensive  backup routines, while other companies only offer fixed level backups normally at cost additional to the hosting,” adds Bryon .

Beware of fake protection

Some competitors of R1Soft market their technologies as ‘continuous’ even when they are only capable of restores at fixed intervals – often daily, and sometimes even weekly or monthly. These technologies cannot be called ‘true’ continuous data protection, and are typically only based on “periodical snapshots.”

R1Soft, meanwhile, uses technology that captures data from every five minutes. It also offers disaster recovery and bare-metal restore in Linux and Windows servers.R1Soft also allows the end user to restore only a single file or database table rather than having to restore an entire site.

The company’s  data protection are superior to the more common mirroring and replication back up technologies, which protect only the most recent data copy. Once data is corrupted and not immediately detected, the inferior mirroring and replication technologies just protect the corrupted data. R1Soft’s more robust continuous data protection, meanwhile, allows restoration of a previous (uncorrupted) data version.

Satisfied market

A huge chunk of the world’s most reliable hosting solutions – Scotserve included – choose R1Soft because of the flexibility, scalability, and reliability of its back up technologies. The company is recognized as the leader in the commercial backup software industry, protecting over 200,000 servers worldwide.

“We are proud to be using R1Soft to protect our clients’ data,” Bryon adds. “Scotserve is committed to giving small businesses operating in Scotland, the UK, and the rest of the world with the most reliable and affordable internet services, and R1soft data protection helps us in part to achieve that goal.”

Scotserve servers are monitored 24/7. Call 01862 821431 (UK), +44 1862 821431 (International) or email sales@scotserve.co.uk to inquire about premium hosting services with R1Soft data protection. Budget hosting also available.