Endpoint Backup Solution: Protect Devices outside Corporate Firewall

To be secure and effective, any good enterprise endpoint backup software must meet some requirements listed below, for both end-users and the company IT department.

Handy Backup meets all criteria of endpoint backup definition. It is capable to take data from any devices and storage units (including Google Drive, Amazon S3, Microsoft OneDrive, Box, NAS and FTP units etc.) and save it to any vault approved for corporate centralized backup.

• User laptops and terminals running with Windows 10, 8, 7 or Server 2019, 2016, 2012;
• Any devices synchronized with the servers and terminals described above via any methods;
• FTP, SFTP and FTPS data servers, connected via the Internet or through a local network;
• External (mapped) drives, NAS units, data servers, private cloud services of any type;
• Commercial clouds, e.g. Google Drive, Amazon S3, Box, OneDrive, 4shared and other.

Typical Use Cases

You can describe most use cases for particular endpoint backup solutions as modifications of some simple backup architectures described below as examples:

• From laptops of company employees – to a private cloud inside the corporate network;
• From some Dropbox shared endpoint accounts – to a single Amazon S3 company account;
• From workstations of the staff – to an FTP (SFTP or FTPS) corporate server;
• From endpoint servers of external departments – to a single central server of a company;
• From computers of employees engaged in some project – to some trusted cloud account.

You can quickly modify any of these existing endpoint backup schemes to change the endpoint device set, the destination or both parameters; it can be effective to use two or more schemes simultaneously, or to invent and add a new schedme.

The task of accessing and restoring enterprise endpoint backup is as important as the task of taking snapshots of these data. Any end user must have an option to find and restore (or just view) the data needed as quickly as possible, perhaps, without total restoration of a dataset.

Good endpoint backup software is just a part of a general security strategy for an enterprise. The best endpoint backup software is a program allowing integrating it into a complex, scheduled and pre-planned chain of different data-protecting actions.

To make itself a part of a general security strategy, Handy Backup allows some possible actions, e.g.:

1. Running it as a command-line application, allowing batching its run.
2. Starting other applications or batch files (command lines) before or after each task.
3. Notifying selected users about its activity through email messages.

In addition to key features and advantages described earlier, Handy Backup provides some other options turning it into a best endpoint backup solution for many different cases:

• Automatic backup of any data: databases, VMs, websites, drive images etc.;
• Selecting end user files and folders by the mask of a name and/or file attributes;
• Supporting all modern data storages, including clouds, FTP, NAS, SAN and USB;
• Full, incremental, differential and mixed (full/differential) backup modes;
• Creating versioned backups and marking backup data with time stamps.

Compared to many other endpoint backup vendors, Handy Backup provides much more functionality-to-price ratio. It uses a simple payment model without extra fees or annual charges, and its licensing is permanent for a major version, including free updates.

See also:

• Enterprise Backup Solution

• Centralized Backup Software