Bank Switches to AppAssure’s Replay 4 Backup and Recovery Software to Run Operations Flawlessly
Logan Bank and Trust has designed secure backup and disaster recovery plan switching from Backup Exec to AppAssure’s Replay 4 for virtual standby and offsite replication.
Reston, VA, June 19, 2011 --(PR.com)-- AppAssure Software, a leading developer of award-winning backup and disaster recovery software products for mission-critical Windows application servers, today announced that Logan Bank and Trust, a privately owned and operated community bank in Logan, WV, replaced their old backup solution with AppAssure’s Replay 4 backup and recovery software for virtual standby and offsite data replication. Using Replay 4, the bank developed and implemented a comprehensive, state-of-the-art backup and disaster recovery plan for branch and main bank data security.
As Logan Bank & Trust’s Network Administrator Matthew Bailey notes, when he began as the bank’s first full-time IT staff, he was asked to evaluate the backup & disaster recovery process and what encryption was like for the bank. At the time, he remembers, the bank was using old backup solution with each of the bank’s six branches rotating among 10 tapes.
“What I discovered,” says Bailey “is that no one checked the backups to see if they were working correctly and no one had any idea what was being backed up. Someone would just put in a tape.” After a rigorous 30-day test period, Bailey found out the answers to the two questions he asked: (1) the bank had only four out of 30 days of successful backups — a 15% success rate, and (2) there was no encryption. Bailey had his work cut out for him.
“With our old solution, we were spending thousands of dollars on tape replacements alone,” says Bailey, “and if we needed redundant hardware or if one broke, we’d have to pay for one to be overnighted to us. So management gave me sole discretion to throw out the playbook and to get what we needed for the bank. I got to design the whole backup and disaster recovery infrastructure and process from the ground up.”
After rigorous testing, Bailey chose AppAssure’s Replay 4 to provide the foundation of Logan Bank & Trust’s comprehensive backup and disaster recovery plan.
“On a day-to-day basis, Replay’s reliability is key,” says Bailey. “It alerts me if there’s an issue and it doesn’t eat up my time in any unnecessary way. With Backup Exec, I’d easily spend 10% of my time each week making sure we got a good backup, which meant I couldn’t fix the teller machine or deal with some other IT need. This translates into dollars because clients would have to wait for their financial transactions and that made them unhappy.”
As Bailey says, the cohesive disaster recovery plan he designed and implemented was put to the test when the hotel next door to Logan Bank & Trust’s main branch suffered a severe fire last fall. The main branch is essentially Logan Bank’s data center, so when the fire department turned off power to the entire city block and wouldn’t let bank employees or clients back into the bank for about two weeks, Bailey’s DR process kicked in.
“Most people think of DR as a hurricane or something huge,” says Bailey. “It becomes huge if you’re not able to work, but fortunately with Replay, we could.”
With every branch’s data replicated back to main branch, and also backed up locally along with everything on virtual recovery using VMware, none of the bank’s data was lost. “We have a virtual copy of every server and had the virtuals ready to go,” says Bailey.
“If this would have happened before Replay, we probably couldn’t have recovered,” resumes Bailey.
“This is the question I’d ask any bank right now: ‘What would you do if your data center was without power for two weeks without notice?’ or, ‘What would you do if you couldn’t physically be on premises for two weeks?’” As Bailey says, he knows what he’ll do because he’s done it and Replay’s got him covered.
About Logan Bank & Trust
With six branches located in Logan, W.V., Logan Bank & Trust is the only surviving privately owned and operated community bank in the area. For over 40 years, it has taken pride in being the most reliable and personal source for banking—for both private individuals and growing businesses, with confidentiality, quick and courteous service, and smart, easy to use products.
About AppAssure Replay 4
Replay 4 is the world’s fastest and easiest backup and disaster recovery software for Windows application servers, VMware and Hyper-V Virtual Servers. The only complete “all-in-one” backup and recovery solution, Replay 4 enables local recoveries from any type of failure in just minutes, with the added assurance of offsite application and image backup and bare metal recovery from a total site disaster.
For a free 14-day Replay 4 software trial, visit www.AppAssure.com.
About AppAssure Software
AppAssure Software is a leading provider of innovative backup and disaster recovery software for Windows application servers. AppAssure’s flagship product, Replay 4 is an application-aware, disk-based imaging solution that automatically and continuously snapshots entire Windows application servers delivering accelerated application backups and disaster recovery for in minutes. For more information about AppAssure Software, visit http://www.appassure.com.
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As Logan Bank & Trust’s Network Administrator Matthew Bailey notes, when he began as the bank’s first full-time IT staff, he was asked to evaluate the backup & disaster recovery process and what encryption was like for the bank. At the time, he remembers, the bank was using old backup solution with each of the bank’s six branches rotating among 10 tapes.
“What I discovered,” says Bailey “is that no one checked the backups to see if they were working correctly and no one had any idea what was being backed up. Someone would just put in a tape.” After a rigorous 30-day test period, Bailey found out the answers to the two questions he asked: (1) the bank had only four out of 30 days of successful backups — a 15% success rate, and (2) there was no encryption. Bailey had his work cut out for him.
“With our old solution, we were spending thousands of dollars on tape replacements alone,” says Bailey, “and if we needed redundant hardware or if one broke, we’d have to pay for one to be overnighted to us. So management gave me sole discretion to throw out the playbook and to get what we needed for the bank. I got to design the whole backup and disaster recovery infrastructure and process from the ground up.”
After rigorous testing, Bailey chose AppAssure’s Replay 4 to provide the foundation of Logan Bank & Trust’s comprehensive backup and disaster recovery plan.
“On a day-to-day basis, Replay’s reliability is key,” says Bailey. “It alerts me if there’s an issue and it doesn’t eat up my time in any unnecessary way. With Backup Exec, I’d easily spend 10% of my time each week making sure we got a good backup, which meant I couldn’t fix the teller machine or deal with some other IT need. This translates into dollars because clients would have to wait for their financial transactions and that made them unhappy.”
As Bailey says, the cohesive disaster recovery plan he designed and implemented was put to the test when the hotel next door to Logan Bank & Trust’s main branch suffered a severe fire last fall. The main branch is essentially Logan Bank’s data center, so when the fire department turned off power to the entire city block and wouldn’t let bank employees or clients back into the bank for about two weeks, Bailey’s DR process kicked in.
“Most people think of DR as a hurricane or something huge,” says Bailey. “It becomes huge if you’re not able to work, but fortunately with Replay, we could.”
With every branch’s data replicated back to main branch, and also backed up locally along with everything on virtual recovery using VMware, none of the bank’s data was lost. “We have a virtual copy of every server and had the virtuals ready to go,” says Bailey.
“If this would have happened before Replay, we probably couldn’t have recovered,” resumes Bailey.
“This is the question I’d ask any bank right now: ‘What would you do if your data center was without power for two weeks without notice?’ or, ‘What would you do if you couldn’t physically be on premises for two weeks?’” As Bailey says, he knows what he’ll do because he’s done it and Replay’s got him covered.
About Logan Bank & Trust
With six branches located in Logan, W.V., Logan Bank & Trust is the only surviving privately owned and operated community bank in the area. For over 40 years, it has taken pride in being the most reliable and personal source for banking—for both private individuals and growing businesses, with confidentiality, quick and courteous service, and smart, easy to use products.
About AppAssure Replay 4
Replay 4 is the world’s fastest and easiest backup and disaster recovery software for Windows application servers, VMware and Hyper-V Virtual Servers. The only complete “all-in-one” backup and recovery solution, Replay 4 enables local recoveries from any type of failure in just minutes, with the added assurance of offsite application and image backup and bare metal recovery from a total site disaster.
For a free 14-day Replay 4 software trial, visit www.AppAssure.com.
About AppAssure Software
AppAssure Software is a leading provider of innovative backup and disaster recovery software for Windows application servers. AppAssure’s flagship product, Replay 4 is an application-aware, disk-based imaging solution that automatically and continuously snapshots entire Windows application servers delivering accelerated application backups and disaster recovery for in minutes. For more information about AppAssure Software, visit http://www.appassure.com.
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