One of the most common problems in the modern work environment is the need of handling backups of data from mobile devices which are (or while) not connected to any network.
There are those who would trust the user's discipline to perform ad hoc or periodical backups, although it is obvious that the quality and extent of those backups would be low, if any.
It is difficult to provide automatic backup for mobile devices, given they are not attached to tape backup systems, and the optical disc backup methods are still not friendly or automated enough for this kind of environment.
Solutions such as Disk2Disk or Disk Synchronization could provide backup to an external device, but only for the last updated version of the data. These solutions do not provide recovery of former data versions.
With BOS we can provide scheduled and automatic backup for all files on the mobile computer system, and store the restore ready data on an external device such as a regular disk or Flash USB drive. This format allows to protect data versions every several minutes.
The big advantage of data stored by BOS in this format is that in case of total damage to the computer, it will be possible to immediately access the files stored on the external device through any regular computer, at any place on the globe, almost with any operating system, and without the need of any special software or assigned hardware - BOS system is not required for restoring of data backed up by it, the files will always be up to their last version and ready to be read any time.
The BOS system can schedule the backup of notebooks in five different ways:
- The corporate backup server backs up the mobile device every predefined time interval.
If the device is not connected to the network at the scheduled time, this format will produce multiple error alerts. However, it will enable the backup whenever the mobile device is reconnected to the network.
- The corporate backup server will receive the command to backup the notebook as part of the Login Script when the notebook will connect to the network. This format will perform backup once at every time the notebook logs in.
- The end user will activate a local procedure which will alert the backup server about the presence of the laptop in the network, to start performing backup. This format depends from the end user, and the regular occurrence of the backup is therefore unforeseeable. This format is usually useful to perform a final and user initiated backup at the end of the work day. The end of the backup process will be confirmed to the user by popup.
- BOS Software is installed on the notebook and currently backs up all the important data to a separate folder on the local hard drive.. This format is mainly used for local and immediate recovery in cases of deletion or corruption of a single file.
- BOS Software is installed on the notebook and currently backs up all the critical data to an external disk drive. This format allows much more flexibility.
All these methods can be combined, according to specific needs.
