The three main rationales for choosing BOS
1. Recuperation Methods
BOS recovers any version of any document, either a current or archived one, with a single mouse drag and drop.
BOS locates and recuperates any deleted item or its previous archived versions with a single drag of the mouse.
The number of versions to keep of each object, and the maximum time period to archive these versions, are unlimited and can be set in BOSs configuration.
2. BOS as the missing link
Fault tolerant solutions protect the availability of current data
They do not keep versions for a long time.
These solutions only protect the system on which they are installed.
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- BOS Protects the backed up data including its versions, such as in a backup.
- Backed up data is kept in a format identical to original data just like in a Fault Tolerant solution.
- BOS backs up every computer system in the network regardless of its operating system.
- Old versions of your data could be kept indefinitely.
- Other Backup solutions protect the data and its versions. They do not provide availability to updated data.
- With BOS, Recovery processes does not require an operators intervention.
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3. Comparisons
BOS Recuperation Method versus Backup, Fault tolerance and Snapshot methods.
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BOS |
Backup |
Fault Tolerance |
Snapshot |
| Recuperates previous versions |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Recuperates Updated version (minutes) |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Online Recuperation available |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Depended on software to recuperate |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Depended on hardware to recuperate |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Need Process to recover |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Recuperates local and remote files |
Yes |
Yes (Agent) |
No |
No |
| Recuperates data on any connected system. |
Yes |
Yes (Agent) |
No |
No |
| Recuperates from USB Disk |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Recuperates Deleted file |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Recuperates last minute version of deleted file |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Recuperates last minute version of exchange server single item |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Recuperate NoteBook files |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Recuperation in different operating systems.
|
BOS |
Salvage
(Novell) |
Shadow Copy (Windows 2003) |
Snapshot
(NAS/SAN) |
| Recuperate last minute version of deleted file |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Recuperate Novell Server Files |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Recuperate Windows Server Files |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Recuperate NAS/SAN Server files |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Recuperate Mac Server files |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Recuperate Unix Server Files |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Recuperate other Servers' files |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Recuperate other workstation files |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Recuperate data from computers other than itself |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
