4TB Backed in Cloud by Skender Construction

Zetta, Inc. announced that Skender Construction's almost four terabytes of data are now backed up in the cloud with Zetta Data Protect.

Skender installed the lightweight ZettaMirror agent on two local backup servers, as well as the file server, to create and maintain nightly offsite copies of the locally backed-up data.

"Zetta was up and replicating in a matter of minutes," said Robert Bogucki, IT manager at Skender. "It was very simple to implement and use."

ZettaMirror runs on a prescheduled or on-demand basis and securely pushes changes, at the subfile level, from the local system up to the Zetta Storage Service. The files are recreated in file system format, mirroring the local storage environment. Data is stored in an encrypted format and protected against multiple failures for safety and security. Files on Zetta are directly mountable and accessible over the Internet either through a browser or through direct server mount points, so restore time can be as fast as a file system mount.  

"Cost was an important factor and paying $1.40 to $1.60 per gigabyte just didn't make sense after finding Zetta," said Bogucki, who started the disaster recovery project at Skender and looked at multiple solutions before making his final decisions. "Zetta has a much more reasonable cost model with no charge for the ZettaMirror agent software, no matter how many copies are installed."

Skender also runs ZettaMirror against the corporate file server, creating nightly offsite copies of all of the changes to the departmental file shares including Word, Excel and PDF files. With the automatic snapshots on the Zetta storage service, past versions of end user files can now also be accessed or recovered over the Internet

"I log in about once every couple of weeks to check on things, and so far, everything's working as promised. Customer support has been outstanding, too," said Bogucki. "I'm confident we can now recover from anything."