


Should you need to recover an individual file / folder, a real-time on-line web interface is provided where you can choose from either the most recent version (in the event of an accidental deletion) or a previous version (should you have over-written the file) from any point during which we are completing online backups for you. We have users who only want a months' worth of data retaining through to one who for compliance reasons, currently has almost seven years of point in time snapshots he can recover to. The backup software then creates a catalogue of this data providing recovery snapshots at any point in time, subject to the data retention policy agreed at the time of inception. Once the initial seed is created, we utilise a snapshot backup process which analyses the files on your server for changes each night and copy only changed data to our backup servers. All backups are verified upon completion by means of a CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) During the seed process we encrypt your files utilising an industry standard mechanism, compress the data and transfer to our resilient NAS boxes located in our datacentres within the UK. If this is a large volume, the "seed" can be completed to a removable disk / tape / other medium which we can import at the datacentre, saving valuable Internet bandwidth. After the initial installation of our backup agent on your server(s) and the selection of specific files / folders / disks / email / databases / the full server we create a "seed" backup online of the specified data. The CCS Leeds Disaster Recovery Backup Service runs a daily (or more regularly if you require) fully automated online back up of your important data and files.
