Managed Offsite Backup Services
The objective of the Managed Offsite Backup service technology is to effectively and efficiently move a point-in-time image of a file system or database to a secure remote disk subsystem. Maintaining a remote image of the data facilitates complete protection of the primary data from viruses, disasters, hardware failures or human error. The remote image is available for ad-hoc, file and folder level restores, which also adds a significant level of convenience to this offsite data protection solution.
Data Maintained Onsite and Offsite
With Managed Offsite Backup Services, you can proceed with confidence knowing that your data is stored on your server in your environment as well as knowing that multiple complete copies of your data are stored securely offsite. Using MOBs technology, automatically maintaining data in two different locations hundreds or thousands of miles apart ensures that virtually no single catastrophe will destroy your jurisdictions official data records.
Automatic Offsite Backups
Application data is immediately transferred offsite to a secure data center via the Internet. Online backups are monitored by Manatron staff to ensure that your data is stored safe and secure.
No Capital Investment
No upfront costs are required to subscribe to Manatron’s Managed Offsite Backup Services. The MOBs backup agent can be quickly and easily installed on your existing server. Backup data will be sent over the Internet using industry-standard encryption.
Rapid Recovery 24x7
A complete restore of your entire jurisdictions data set can be achieved quickly and reliably with unparalleled accuracy. No need to worry about bad tapes or a bad tape drive, data is always available and online for immediate restores. Data backups are always checked for accuracy when received at the data center and are stored on redundant physical media to ensure safe storage after the backups have been validated.
It is critical to protect your data from any type of downtime, resulting from a man-made occurrence or natural disaster. Whether you are looking for immediate backup or long-term archive, MOBs has a data protection and recovery solution that fits today’s governmental data needs.
Benefit Summary
Take Control of your Backup and Recovery
• Reliably move critical data off-site with advanced encryption
• Significantly reduce human error by automating your data backup process
• Centrally monitor & manage backups for multiple facilities across town or across country
Enhance your Data Security
• Address Privacy and Security standards
• Automated backup process reduces human intervention and potential error
• Data remains encrypted and protected throughout the backup and recovery process
Save Time & Money
• Lost or corrupted files are restored online in seconds, 24 hours a day
• Automated process requires no manual prompting
• Eliminate management and shipping of backup tapes offsite for storage
• Reduces bandwidth requirements, backup windows and storage footprint
• Eliminate tape retrieval from storage to conduct simple file restores
Security
Encryption Key
All communication between your network and MOBs backup locations are performed using advanced encryption technology; MOBs provides five levels of encryption to protect your files. Your jurisdiction will be assigned an encryption key that controls access to information stored or needing retrieval. Manatron does not assign the encryption key. It must be assigned and managed by authorized personnel at your jurisdiction. The data is encrypted on the jurisdictions site and remains encrypted on the Manatron data vaults. There is no method to decrypt the data via any “back doors” or alternate schemes. If you need to restore data using MOBs, only the person with the original encryption key may authorize the decryption of the data.
File Compression Offers Maximum Security
As an additional security measure, MOBs assembles only the block-level changes into a single change file, which is compressed and then encrypted, rather than sending a complete backup of the entire system. This prevents unauthorized users from being able to obtain large portion of customer data at one time.
Report Monitoring and Testing
The granular reporting capabilities within MOBs provide an important audit trail for the status of backup and restoration tasks. This is especially critical when centralized IT staff is managing remote office backups. MOBs customers are supported by highly trained Manatron support personnel who continually monitor the backup systems. Frequently, before a customer even knows they have a backup or recovery issue, Manatron notifies specified personnel via automated email messaging or a phone call. Additionally, ad hoc or scheduled testing is always available.
MOBs Technology Defined
Recognizing the flaws in tape backup and the anticipated fall of hard disk prices, MOBs technology was designed from the ground up to take advantage of the random-access capability of disk drives and to leverage existing public networks such as the Internet to automatically move critical backup data off-site.
In accomplishing this goal, the MOBs technology eliminates the need for manual intervention inherent in traditional tape systems, including physically labeling, boxing, shipping (and/or rotating) and tracking tape media.
MOBs Provides Unmatched Data Protection
• Disk-based offsite backup and recovery service for local government jurisdictions.
• Fast, easy file and folder restores
• Centralized and automated backup – to reduce human error
• Securely and reliably move data off-site with advanced encryption
• No additional upfront hardware required
• Eliminate redundant backup procedures
• Store more data with less disk space
• Complete control of your backup and recovery process
• Ensure your data is protected and securely backed up and off-site
• Prevent data loss due to natural disasters
MOBs Security
Five different encryption options are available for encrypting data before it is transmitted to our remote server:
• Blowfish (64 bit)
• Blowfish (128 bit)
• DES (56 bit)
• Triple DES (128 bit)
• AES (128 bit)
MOBs Provides Total Jurisdiction Protection
• Provide offsite backup for all of your critical data.
• Tax, Appraisal, Records and GIS applications and database information
• Financial and Human Resource data
• Exchange Server information – provides immediate retrieval of email
• Personal correspondence and Office forms
MOBs Take the Next Step
The first step to a total disaster recovery plan is to guarantee the safety of your jurisdictions data. Please contact a Manatron sales representative for more information on how MOBs can assist you with your data protection needs.