Think back to the day when accidentally you or a rogue employ intentionally deleted a very important file and you had to run the whole day, fetching out methods to recover the deleted files but unfortunately were unable to do so and ultimately had to bear the loss. Don’t want to recall the very incident ever again in your life? How about if we say that we could help you actually recover your lost data? Well, we could actually do that with Granular Recovery. Before we discuss the benefits and uses of granular recovery let’s understand the basics of this concept.
What is a Granular recovery?
An advanced technology that majorly helps IT organizations perform data recovery at both file and image level. Until now, major backup systems required multiple backups to restore any file or the entire system. In contrast, granular recovery can backup specific files at a much faster speed. Often there are times when the customer is looking for the backup of some subset of a larger dataset. For instance, he wants to recover an individual message from the exchange mailbox Database. It would be completely irrelevant to perform mailbox-level backups that takes much time and storage.
Where is granular recovery used?
Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and Microsoft Server are the most reliable mail servers on which the whole of the business relies. Granular recovery is being chiefly used over those systems that do not support traditional backup approaches. The frequency of this support is also an important consideration that needs to be taken into consideration for both virtual and physical environments. A major use of this recovery technology is made in the IT industries where administrators require to recover both data and systems including emails, folders, and messages.
Traditional recovery Vs Granular Recovery
The stereotypical way of recovery required multiple agents and backups. Briefly, it involved a full database backup to enable a full recovery of the exchange server. Next followed the “brick-level” that involved the running of the backup and took a longer time. Lastly, the incremental backups of the database and mailbox were a must run.
Contrary to the traditional methods came the granular recovery enables mounting the backup instead of a backup of exchange. You could then extract the required data directly from the recovery console. Sounds easy right? Well, it equally simple!
Benefits of Granular Recovery
- Add another service offering to your business as granular recovery does not only operate for Exchange or SharePoint but takes the process of levelling to an altogether different level with easy
- Since the goal is to provide best and efficient services to your customers, granular recovery offers much more than this putting in the least efforts.
- Granular recovery saves you from coverage of the extra costs of storage space that you have to bear while running the traditional recovery methods.
If you are considering the idea of providing your customers with a granular recovery option, go ahead, it does deserve at least a try. It has the potential to make your employees more efficient and adds incredible value to the services you offer to your customers.
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