Unitrends offers disaster recovery with both on-premise archiving and off-premise electronic vaulting.
Choosing which to use will be based on your particular needs, but the most effective disaster recovery strategy will be one in which these choices have been made well in advance.
Archiving is accomplished by storing backups on removable media, while vaulting involves block-level, in-flight deduplication of backups to an off-site location (also referred to as the disaster recovery site) in which a vault has been configured. Vaulting may be used alone for disaster recovery or in conjunction with archiving.
Archiving onsite to a Unitrends system offers a fuller level of retention, while vaulting may provide a higher level of reliability, since the data is transmitted to a location that is geographically distant to the disaster.
Successful recovery from a disaster using Unitrends’ system solution requires that vaulting and/or archiving has been previously configured and implemented.
Note: Disaster recovery from tape archive is not supported.
A Unitrends system’s system state is automatically backed up when archiving or vaulting. The system state holds information such as clients added to the system, client schedules, storage configuration, and system settings. Restoring the system state rebuilds a Unitrends system in the event of a disaster.
Warning! A system automatically protects itself by sending its system state to archive media or a vault each time your archive or vault. You should never manually back up a Unitrends system itself.