Backup Software Technology Well over 100 Backup Applications In The Wild Three Backup Software Categories: 1. Legacy 2. Online 3. near-continuous Data Protection
Legacy Backup Software Data Lost in Disaster Backup Window Open File Backups Point-in-time Snapshots Days Hours or Days NO NO Bare-Metal Restore NO Examples: tar rsync amanda Veritas Evault etc.
Online Backup Software Data Lost in Disaster Backup Window Open File Backups Point-in-time Snapshots Days Hours or Days Yes Yes Bare-Metal Restore Yes Examples: Acronis True Image Symantec Live State
near-continuous Data Protection Data Lost in Disaster Backup Window Open File Backups Point-in-time Snapshots Hours or Minutes Minutes (average case) Yes Yes Bare-Metal Restore Yes Examples: R1Soft is the ONLY near-cdp for Linux!
Why We Need Another Backup App. Legacy Software Like tar and rsync: Copy Files from point A to point B Breaks down on Large File Systems (> 1 Million Files) Reads All Used Data on Disk Every Backup
File System is Not Efficient for Backups
R1Soft First True Linux Kernel Level Backups
Kernel Level Backup = Reduced Overhead
Server Load Nightly CPanel Backup (tar & rsync) V.S. R1Soft CDP Server Load Avg. Dropped From 3.0 to 0.0 tar and rsync R1Soft CDP
R1Soft Point-In-Time Snapshot
R1Soft Kernel Level CDP R1Soft Linux Device Driver Below File System (ext2/3) Above Real Block Device NO OVERHEAD FOR TRACKING CHANGES Uses ~3 MB of Memory / 100 GB of Disk for tracking changes NO MATTER HOW MANY CHANGES!!!
Synchronizations Block Level Compression Encryption Only Changed Disk Sectors are Sent Only Changed Disk Sectors are Stored! Auto-rotate old recovery points (keep last X) Delete any recovery point you want
R1Soft Network Protocol for Block Data CDP Server to Agent Authentication using RSA Keys Blowfish and RSA Encryption over wire Compression Done on Agent MD5 Check Sum Verification EVERY STEP OF THE WAY
Store MANY Recovery Points in R1Soft patent-pending Disk Safe
Manage ALL Backups Centrally
R1Soft Data Recovery Best of Both Worlds
Bare-Metal Restore Rocks! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 0 CDP Server Bare-Metal Restore Repair Hardware if Necessary Boot into Disaster Recovery (CD-ROM / PXE / Live Boot) Restore entire system or hard disk partition(s) Reboot Traditional Disaster Recovery Methods Repair Hardware if Necessary Collect all necessary OS install media and CDs Re-install O/S from CD Reboot Apply service packs or patches (multiple) Reboot (this could be several reboots) Re-install backup software from CD Patch backup software to latest level Reboot Load recovery tapes or files and restore data
R1Soft Disaster Recovery Boot Methods Boot CD-ROM (some times called Live CD) PXE (network) Boot Live Boot
How You Will Make $$$$ w/ R1Soft CDP Resell CDP Software and Backup Space to Dedicated Server Customers Resell or Value-Add to Virtual Hosting Customers
R1Soft CDP Designed for Resellers! Customers Can Manage Their Own Backups and Restores! Customers can manage Backups in Easy to Use Web Interface Define Disk Quotas in the CDP System for Customers Resellers of Resellers!
Service Provider API (resell to dedicated servers)
Service Provider API (SAPI) XML-RPC Fully Documented Sample Implementation in Perl Open Source Linux Command Line Interface
CDP for Data Centers Manage N number of CDP Servers and Customers from a Single Web Interface Single Point of Control Scalable Backup Capacity Separate User Interface Servers License Tracking
Control Panel Integration H-Sphere Coming Soon
How Does Control Panel Integration Work? Hosting Company Manages Backups and Schedules CPanel Users Can Restore Files from Existing Backups CPanel users Login directly to CDP Server Web interface Secure Sand Box for CPanel Users (chroot) Open Source Integration (Apache license)
Why is R1Soft CPanel Integration Add-on Free? R1Soft Learning how to add value w/ Control Panel Integration You said you like what we have You Said one-click CPanel Account Level Restores for Server Admin Would Be Killer!
What is Vision for R1Soft and CPanel? Control Panel Backups Re-defined New Features Coming Only when CPanel and R1Soft CDP Combined
R1Soft CDP for MySQL some time in June of 2007 Only Near-CDP Solution for MySQL Consistent Point-in-time Hot Backup of MyISAM and InnoDB Online MySQL Backups - NO DOWNTIME - NO INTERRUPTIONS (Lock Held for < 1-2 Milliseconds) - 100% Consistent
R1Soft CDP for MySQL Managed via CDP Server Web Interface First Database and Table Level Granular Restore for MySQL Instances Restore Any Combination of tables or databases to original or Alternate Location
How is R1Soft Licensed? CDP Server (where backups are stored) Agent (runs on computer you backup) Add-on Modules Some modules licensed per CDP Server Other Modules licensed per Agent
Pricing Models / Licenses Pay-As-You-Pricing Boxed / Shrink-Wrap Pricing Foundation License (new) Fixed Number of Agents Use of Add-on Modules Monthly Payment Plans w/ qualified credit Enterprise License (while we can / limited time) Unlimited Use In Your Business (Linux or Windows) Aggressive Volume Discounts Monthly Payment Plans w/ qualified credit
Pay-as-You-Go Includes First 200 GB Additional GB = $0.10 / GB / month NOT A BACKUP SERVICE NO Add-On Modules Available (Billing API, MySQL, etc)
Boxed / Shrink-Wrap Pricing CDP Server One-time: $600 Annual Maintenance: $150 Linux Agent One-time: $55 Annual Maintenance: $25 Windows Agent One-time: $75 Annual Maintenance: $25 CPanel Integration (per Agent) One-time: FREE for limited time Annual Maintenance: FREE for limited time Service Provider API Add-On (per CDP Server) One-time: $499 Annual Maintenance: $250 MySQL Add-On To Be Announced
R1Soft CDP Server Acronis True Image EMC Retrospect Daily Backups Hourly Backups Open File Backups Bare-Metal Restore Continuous Data Protection Restore Linux LVM Restore Linux Software RAID Easy To Use Web Interface Manage Thousands of Servers Control Panel Integration Price $80 - $100 / server $699 / server You Can t Afford It
CDP Server 2.0 Pre-Release Coming Soon Multi-threaded Disk Safes Backup and Restore Files at Same Time Multiple Restore Jobs for Same Host Run More Simultaneous Backups Lots of Performance Tweaks, reduced memory usage No More File Indexing To Browse Files Disk Safe Repair