Uplevel Systems Storage Backup Services

Uplevel Systems Storage Backup Services

Enabling Backup in the Portal

  1. Login to your Portal and choose Storage
  2. Edit each Share
  3. Choose Backup to set your back up preferences
  4. Save all the way out. 




Local Snapshots: (needs to be enabled in the Backup section, no extra fees)

Uplevel's Storage snapshots work by leveraging the filesystem's copy-on-write (COW) architecture. When a snapshot is created, the filesystem doesn't duplicate all the data. Instead, it only copies the metadata that describes the structure and location of files and directories. This metadata points to the same data blocks as the original subvolume.

The reason the filesystem snapshots are very small is that they initially contain only this metadata, not the actual file contents. The snapshot shares the existing data blocks with the original subvolume. As a result, creating a snapshot is nearly instantaneous and requires minimal additional storage space.

The snapshot's size only increases when changes are made to the original subvolume after the snapshot is taken. When a file in the original subvolume is modified, the filesystem creates new data blocks for the changed parts, leaving the snapshot's view of the data unchanged. This approach ensures that snapshots remain an accurate representation of the filesystem's state at the time they were created, while still being highly space-efficient.

These backups are ideal for restoring unintentionally lost files immediately from the Windows Previous Versions tab on their local host, and they also protect against crypto viruses. Local snapshots can be used for restoration in a ransomware situation.

We have a How-to article for restoring Previous Versions from a Windows machine at our Office - Link

Disaster Recovery ( Cloud backups - please contact our Sales Team for the exact pricing per TB ):

Disaster Recovery replicates the entire drive in the cloud and then will incrementally push the deltas for ongoing changes. This means the first initial cloud backup will take far longer to complete while the remaining backups should be much more reasonable on the uplink speeds. However, keep in mind changing large amounts of data could still cause upload speeds to be impacted. Replicating these drives in the cloud is really intended for disaster recovery or “the gateway died and we lost all of our data”.  In most cases we can download the cloud image and overnight a new Gateway to your client. This depends on the size of the backups and the overnight cutoff time with our shipping partners. We can also send out the Gateway and have the data download at your clients location.

Use of Uplevel's Disaster Recovery service is not required.

We must emphasize how crucial it is to have a tried-and-true Disaster Recovery strategy in place for the data of your clients.
Nearly 94% of companies that experience a severe data loss never fully recover.

Data loss may have such a profound effect that it ultimately causes a company to fail. This is in part because of the fact that it can take over nine months—or around 280 days—to find and control a data breach. The consequences are quite alarming:

  • 51% of companies close within two years of the incident.
  • 43% do not reopen again.
  • 70% of small businesses close within a year of a large data loss.

Archives: ( Deep Cloud Storage - please contact our Sales Team for the exact pricing per TB)

Archives are compressed  copies of the Disaster Recovery Cloud Backups. Archives are intended to hold older data that does not need to be accessed frequently but must be retained. These files are not immediately available; they must be uncompressed before the dataset can be accessed. The amount of archive data required, as well as how far back they may need to go, will vary by industry.

In the event of an audit, an accounting firm may need to preserve 7 years' worth of data in archives, whereas a medical facility may need to keep a lifetime's worth of medical imaging for each patient. This means that the customer can delete non-current files and lower the quantity of data necessary locally while being prepared in case of an inquiry. Of course, the data remains accessible on the local storage and if files are infrequently changed, a few months' worth of archives could be enough to satisfy many types of businesses. 



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