Continuous Data Protection

When you turn to MSEDP, you get state-of-the-art data protection. Safeguard your data with a disaster recovery system. We offer enterprise-level backup and disaster recovery (“BDR”) solutions for businesses of all sizes. No business is too large or too small for a professional backup and disaster recovery system. Our services can get your business up and running again in minutes rather than hours or days or even weeks. Count on our reliable technical support team for assistance. Contact us today to learn more about our continuous data protection.

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What Is Continuous Data Protection?

Continuous Data Protection is a system that backs up data on a computer system every time a change is made. It maintains a continuous journal of data changes and makes it possible to restore a system to any previous point in time. Having continuous data protection solves the problem of the “backup window," where organizations are at risk of losing data created between two scheduled backups. It also provides needed protection against threats like malware and ransomware, as well as sabotage or accidental deletion of data. This may be necessary for compliance with stringent data protection regulations. We can come up with a custom solution that exactly meets your needs.

Near Continuous Data Protection vs True Solutions

There is a slight difference between near continuous data protection and true continuous data protection. Here are those differences.

• True CDP: This solution backs up data with every change and allows an organization to achieve a Recovery Point Object (RPO) of zero.
• Near CDP: This is a regular backup system that runs scheduled backups very frequently. It is close to achieving the effect of continuous data protection. RPO will be higher than zero and equal to the interval between scheduled backups.

Benefits and Challenges of Continuous Data Protection

Continuous data protection is a powerful concept that can help organizations achieve secure data storage. However, like with any tech operation, it also raises a few operational challenges that you will need to consider. The IT team at MSEDP can help satisfy these difficulties due to our years of experience in the field.

Benefits

Here are four common benefits every who opts for continuous data protection will receive.

1. Prompt disaster recovery: Continuous data protection is an important component of any disaster recovery strategy. The continuous data protection backup store can be replicated at frequent intervals to a remote data center.
2. Records every write and copies to the target: All changes are stored in a log, allowing you to “replay” the data from any point in time.
3. Preserves a record of every data transaction: This is important for auditing and compliance reasons, as well as for forensics for security reasons.
4. Version control: Continuous data protection keeps multiple versions of each file, which allows all creators and users of data to roll back to previous versions. Ensuring full control of the version they want.

Challenges

Here are three common challenges presented by continuous data protection.

1. Single point of failure: A continuous data protection server can become a single point of failure for the enterprise, so it is essential to have high data availability in place.
2. Increased load on data resources: Continuous data protection effectively doubles data throughput. This is due to the fact that every data transaction needs to be saved immediately to backup. The critical resources you will protect with continuous data protection are typically highly loaded anyway, which may create performance or stability issues.
3. Disk-based challenges: Continuous data protection solutions require fast disk drives, which may require a significant investment in physical disk storage. Which some businesses simply may not have the space to store.