Podcast – A Quick Guide to RTOs and RPOs with Storage Expert Ray Lucchesi

Ray Lucchesi, President of Silverton Consulting

4 min 9 sec

In this Experts & Insights podcast, Matt Law, senior PMM at BakBone, talks to Storage Expert Ray Lucchesi of Silverton Consulting about recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs). Ray discusses how the criticality of business activities associated with an application and its data determines RPO and RTO requirements.

Video – Whiteboard Session with Matt Law – How to Protect Remote Office Data with FASTRecover



In episode #2 of the BakBone Whiteboard Sessions, Senior Product Marketing Manager Matt Law discusses how to protect mission-critical data and applications at local and remote offices by leveraging the capabilities inside NetVault: FASTRecover. Matt explains the benefits of simultaneous local and remote protection, 30-second recovery for applications and data, recovery of consistent data to any point in time, integration with existing backup applications, and the elimination of backup windows.

Heerim Architects Meets RPO and RTO Objectives with BakBone

“NetVault: FASTRecover’s 30-second recovery performance will help increase our company’s productivity and help us continue to meet our clients’ needs. The simple and easy-to-use interface has freed me from the unneeded stress and problems of everyday IT administration.” ~ RH Kwon, Systems Operator of Heerim Architects

The Challenge: With many independent file servers allotted for each project team and hundreds of projects constantly in progress, it was critical for Heerim Architects to protect their data and minimize business interruption. Construction Management and architectural drawings were stored on data servers that contained sub-divided data storage space for saving prototypes separately. The new and old data, which included architectural drawings, required full data protection as well as a system that could manage the history of changes and modifications to these files. Heerim’s old backup solution caused too many backup windows and was increasing data recovery costs for the company.

The Solution: Heerim selected NetVault: FASTRecover for real-time data protection based on its 30-second recovery capabilities, which makes it possible to go back to any-point-in-time to quickly retrieve consistent data. This was not possible with their old  solution. The fast availability of data after recovery (BakBone’s Virtual On-Demand Recovery technology) was another feature that Heerim looked to employ in their data center because it would minimize downtime.

The Benefit: NetVault: FASTRecover enabled Heerim to protect critical data in real-time and eliminate backup windows. And FASTRecover’s easy-to-use interface reduces the level of expertise for system administrators to perform data recoveries. The high availability of information after recovery also limits operational downtime.

Podcast – City of Safford Goes on the Record about FASTRecover

Derek Kruger, IT Supervisor, City of Safford

9 min 39 sec

In this podcast, BakBone customer Derek Kruger discusses the challenges he faced with his old backup solution and why he switched to NetVault: FASTRecover. He shares with us how FASTRecover helps keep the city’s financial databases up and running, how it has eliminated backup windows and how the product works quietly behind the scenes to keep Exchange and SQL data available for the employees and citizens of Safford.  “No one cares if you back anything up, all they care is if you can get it back to them when they ask for it,” Derek says.

Video – Whiteboard Session with Amit Malhotra – Recovering Consistent Data

In the first installment of the BakBone Whiteboard Sessions, Amit Malhotra discusses application-aware data recoveries and how to successfully recover consistent data.