The Challenge
Core to any data management practice is backup and recovery. Backups must be done. Recovery plans must be real and tested. Although these processes have long been operational necessities, they continue to be complex and inefficient. Restoring data from tape is a long, slow process. And disk-based backups typically require a substantial amount of additional disk space and cost. 3PAR® enables greater levels of availability and protection, while cutting effort and expense.

Unique Solution Benefits
3PAR's solutions for backup and recovery are based on a uniquely flexible and efficient copy-on-write snapshot technology. Virtual Copy lets users maximize both their recovery point objective and recovery time objective, affordably.

Maintain Frequent Recovery Point Objectives—3PAR Virtual Copy allows users to take hundreds of backups per base volume cost-effectively, so frequent or extended histories can be maintained. Since only the changed base volume data (or “preserved” data) is stored within the snapshot, it consumes the minimal amount of physical capacity, with no need for volume-by-volume space reservations. And the faster your business is back up and running. Learn more.

Recover Rapidly from Disk without Paying for It—3PAR Virtual Copy's automatically dedicates fine-grained capacity to snapshots from a common pool. Since only the changed base volume data (or "preserved" data) is stored within the snapshot, it consumes the minimal amount of physical capacity without space reservations. For added efficiency, preserved data can also consume physical capacity with a quality-of-service independent of the base volume (e.g., different RAID or drive type). Learn more.

Shrink Tape Back-up Windows—By backing up from snapshots, users eliminate impact on production servers and, in the case of SAN-based back-ups, network resources as well.

Special Integration for Mission Critical Oracle & Exchange—For Oracle and Exchange, 3PAR offers an intelligent snapshot manager that is application-aware and ensures a complete and consistent snapshot set (Recovery Manager for Exchange, Recovery Manager for Oracle). A point and click GUI minimizes operator error and speeds time to recovery. For Oracle environments, additional backup integration is included with VERITAS NetBackup, providing "one-click" non-disruptive, immediate off-host backup. Learn more.