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The long story so far…<\/h2>\n
The topic of\u00a0data backup\u00a0is not one of the most popular. There are various reasons for this. Firstly, hard drives – even solid state disks and SD cards – generally work relatively\u00a0problem free\u00a0and one rarely hears any complaints regarding\u00a0their failure. Secondly, the matter is not at all trivial. Creating a backup may not require any special kind of witchcraft, but the checking of a\u00a0backup that has been created (ideally during ongoing operation) can be enough\u00a0to put off\u00a0even self-confessed computer experts, because the fear of destroying a functioning system with a faulty backup is simply too great.\u00a0 Thirdly, the IT sector is perfectly happy to carry on\u00a0inventing new solutions, for which, at the end of the day, no-one can actually be held responsible.<\/p>\n
This includes, without doubt, the backing up of data in the Cloud, because providers can always then say that the \u00a0data never actually arrived in the Cloud. Nobody can seriously claim that\u00a0clouds represent particularly stable domains: clouds\u00a0come and go, they are suddenly no longer there, either sunshine prevails (causing\u00a0an outbreak of joy), or it rains, or snows, or there is thunder and lightning (something for which\u00a0nature\u00a0– or in this case, the imperfect knowledge of the natural sciences – is held responsible).\u00a0\u00a0 Even users know, in principle, that storing data in the Cloud means that any\u00a0subsequent control over that data is made more difficult. Access protected by passwords means that\u00a0it is not oneself, but some unknown third party\u00a0that decides whether or not the data\u00a0is\u00a0available.<\/p>\n
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The ArchivistaBox\u00a0takes\u00a0data backup\u00a0much more seriously. And so, over the last decade (since the very founding of ArchivistaBox), we have had not\u00a0just\u00a0one backup option, but many.\u00a0\u00a0 This has resulted in us being able to prevent any instances of\u00a0complete customer system failure. In practice, however, there are always cases in which additional backup options could have helped customers avoid falling into borderline situations. The borderline situations we refer to here are those, for example, in which there was no backup (although the data was still available in the box(es)), where backup copies had not been checked for years, where nobody had responsibility for the backing up of data, where no hard drives were available, where the drive was too small, where nobody actually noticed that the target data carrier was already full, etc.<\/p>\n
\u2026and two new data backup options<\/h2>\n
The first new backup option<\/strong> is relevant to the case in which nobody at the customer\u00a0has been\u00a0able to make a network drive\u00a0available\u00a0for the backing up of data.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There was also no USB disk available. The customer was, however, able to access the\u00a0ArchivistaBox network drive. One option could have been to create a backup in the TEMP folder of the shared ArchivistaBox folder. The customer could then at least copy this from the local computer to another folder (e.g. to an existing network drive). So, Version 2015\/VI offers the option of backing up data onto the local\u00a0ArchivistaBox.<\/strong> For this, the following settings must be made in WebConfig:<\/p>\n These settings allow a backup to be made in the local (shared) TEMP folder. It is important to be aware, however, that doing this „shrinks“ the maximum size of the database by half because, alongside the data, the same amount of space must also be provided\u00a0in the local TEMP folder for the backup.<\/p>\n Selecting the „rapsi“ option when backing up to a server is now a new possibility.<\/strong> With the ArchivistaBox Bachtel,\u00a0a\u00a0USB micro SD adapter with an SD card of the same size must be inserted.<\/strong> When backing up, a\u00a01:1 copy of the integrated SD card is made onto that of the USB stick that is inserted. The data carrier created in this way can\u00a0be removed from the USB stick at any time and inserted as a clone directly into the internal SD slot of the (already switched off!!!)\u00a0ArchivistaBox Bachtel.<\/strong> The ArchivistaBox Bachtel can then be switched on and operated with the clone. Hence, redundancy is achieved when backing up data, without the need for a second ArchivistaBox Bachtel. There is also no need for an active USB hub when backing up data,\u00a0as sufficient power is already provided for the USB SD adaptor. The required components can be ordered in the Shop.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The ArchivistaBox Matterhorn is normally supplied with hard drives with a size of two terabytes. This means that two terabytes\u00a0are available for the data. Archives that have become\u00a0larger can be upgraded with either the ArchivistaBox Universal or a\u00a0SwissRocket processor, which allow archive sizes in excess of\u00a0two terabytes to be achieved at any time. An existing customer asked whether it would be possible to achieve archive sizes of four or six terabytes with the standard\u00a0ArchivistaBox Matterhorn housing –\u00a0provided, of course, that\u00a0the corresponding hard drive sizes were in place.<\/p>\n No sooner said than done! With the current Version,\u00a0archives with sizes of four or six terabytes can now be achieved with standard ArchivistaBox Matterhorn\u00a0housings\u00a0. This obviates the need to set up a hard drive array (solution with the ArchivistaBox Universal) and will therefore be of special interest to customers looking to spend less. It is worth mentioning that the basic ArchivistaBox Matterhorn package with six terabytes is now available for less than 10,000 Swiss francs,<\/a><\/strong> and this allows the archiving of up to 120 million documents (in black and white) or 24 million (in colour).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/archivista.ch\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/backuplocalhost.png\")
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The second new backup option is available on the Archivista Bachtel.<\/strong> For this option, we have to thank a comment made in response to an article\u00a0on ProLinux.de.<\/a><\/strong> The comment suggested that the ArchivistaBox Bachtel should be supplied with a redundant configuration. It would be easy enough to do this, of course, but\u00a0we feel that two ArchivistaBoxes would be a bit over the top in small\u00a0environments and, in\u00a0the case of SD cards, the additional data traffic associated with redundant databases would not enhance the service life of the cards over the long term. The option we are now putting\u00a0forward is far more elegant.<\/p>\nHard drives with four and six terabytes with the Matterhorn<\/h2>\n