With growing needs for online backup with initial backup sizes in 100’s of Gigabytes, IBackup now provides a way to do a faster initial backup via physical transfer of data to a temporary storage device shipped by IBackup to the user’s location.

Depending on the size of the initial data, IBackup can either send you External USB hard drives or Snapservers. The external hard drives can be directly plugged into user’s computer via USB and initial backup can be done directly onto the device. This is an ideal solution for data sizes up to 500 GB. For data sizes exceeding 500 GB, IBackup recommends Snapservers. Users would simply need to copy their data onto these devices and ship it back.

Once user’s data is transferred from these devices to IBackup’s primary storage devices, users can continue incremental backups through the online backup process. This provides an efficient means to establish online backups for datasets with sizes 100GB and higher. The Snapservers are preconfigured with RAID 5 storage of up to 1.5TB and DHCP. If users have DHCP servers on their LAN, they simply would need to hook up one of the Snapserver ports to their LAN and copy their data. If they do not, they will need to configure the Snapserver networking details to suit their network. IBackup personnel would provide necessary authentication information to configure the Snapserver. Users will need to make sure that appropriate packing material is used for proper handling of the device during shipment.

For more details, please call us at 1-800-949-3555 ext 114 or email to support@ibackup.com for a quote.