How Many Organisations Fall Short with Backup Procedures?
IT infrastructure is becoming more complex by the day, and network and security devices are critical elements enabling business continuity, whether in a B2B provider or a B2C retailer. By enabling security and other mission-critical applications, your organisation’s network and security devices are absolutely essential to maintaining business continuity.
Each device must be configured correctly to provide the necessary connectivity and security, and failure of even one of them can cause network downtime and loss of business.
BackBox is the simple way to backup and restore device configuration.
Without backup of critical network device configurations, recovery from a device failure or disaster can take far longer as correct configurations are tracked down for each device. But with BackBox, configuration information is saved automatically and regularly, so you can be confident you have the right network device configuration settings at your fingertips at all times. It’s common for organisations not to bother saving and backing up configurations for load balancers and content filters, and backups for router and switch settings are rarely performed.
With firewalls, manual backups are most common, and often there is no central coordination of this process nor verification that it was done correctly. Likewise, settings for offsite storage devices are often backed up manually, and may or may not be backed up frequently enough. With custom devices, many organisations depend on vendor-based backup capability, which may or may not be adequate.
With BackBox, you can use one solution to provide automatic scheduled and verified backups for network and security devices from over 60 vendors. Wave goodbye to all those hand-crafted scripts and manual processes!
Compare today’s backup methods with BackBox:
| FEATURE | TODAY | BACKBOX |
|---|---|---|
| Routers | Rarely saved | Automatic scheduled backup |
| Switches | Rarely saved | Automatic scheduled backup |
| Firewalls | Manual backups - No central location or verification | Fully scheduled - automated and verified backups |
| Load Balancers | No backups | Fully scheduled - automated and verified backups |
| Content Filters | No backups | Fully scheduled - automated and verified backups |
| Custom Devices | Vendor based | Fully scheduled - automated and verified backups |
| Central Dashboard for Backup status | Not Available | Real-Time Dashboard with device status |
| Notifications | Limited | e-Mail Reports and Syslog |
| Reports | None | Scheduled reports summarizing network and security device backup status |
| Off Site storage | Manual | Automatic support for TFTP SCP and FTP |
BackBox a single solution that takes care of all your network device configuration backups, and can be a critical part of your organisation’s disaster recovery plan as well as a convenient and powerful way to ensure all network devices are configured correctly at all times. BackBox is run from a user-friendly central dashboard from which you can ascertain backup status at any time. You can schedule automatic email and syslog notifications, as well as reports summarizing network and security device backup status.
The result is better business continuity, better network security, and decreased impact of network downtime.
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