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  • The Problem:

    The photo agency manages over 4TB of photographic material. In addition to the company’s own creations, this also includes pictures taken by customers for post-processing. All pictures are available in digital format and are kept in different resolutions and formats which can rapidly increase the amount of data stored. A loss of this data might cause irreparable damage and even lead to business closure.

     

    They believed, that the disk mirroring of their workstation was an adequate protection for their business-critical data. However, this technology, referred to as RAID 1, only protects against the failure of a hard disk. But what if another disk or the entire system fails?

  • Media rotation for comprehensive data protection

    The removability of RDX media allows the implementation of a comprehensive data protection concept using media rotation. In this system, one media is in the RDX drive, ready for the next backup. Another media is located in an external location and is protected against unexpected events. A third media is
    transported to or from the external location. With this arrangement, most of the legal requirements for data backup and recovery are met.

USE CASE - PHOTO AGENCY

  • RDX Dock – reliable, removable and secure

    1 RDX® Dock

    3 RDX media for media rotation scheme

  • The Solution:

    The photo agency came to the conclusion, that a reliable, regular and automated data backup is essential. Among their customers is TandbergData, which regularly produces photos of their storage products for web catalogues and brochures. So, the photo agency asked the TandbergData storage consultant for advice. After they discussed the requirements, the agency opted for the RDX Dock removable disk system and the ActiveImage Protector backup software from NetJapan.

     

    TandbergData’s RDX Dock was simply connected to their workstations via USB 3.0 and was immediately ready for operation. After the installation of the ActiveImage Protector backup software, the first backup job was ready to roll. An important criteria for the selection of the solution was support for media rotation. This means that RDX media can be stored at an external location and are thus protected against viruses and ransomware attacks.

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