D3 Backup Remote FTP Service

Sleep better with your FILE-SAVEs offsite. Use our Remote FTP Service to send your FILE-SAVEs to our FTP server automatically, every night.

Tightly integrated with D3backup. View what's out there in the remote FTP site from a Pick Basic menu.

Get sent an email after each FILE-SAVE summarizing the time/date, # bytes and if any GFE's were encountered and the time it took to FTP the FILE-SAVE to our remote FTP server.

Archive Recommendations

The d3backup system was designed to manage FILE-SAVE's. Seven in a week and month endings, 19 per year. But, as you know, software can only go so far. Hardware must also help us here.

If you do not have a RAID system, I recommend installing a second hard disk and setting it up in Linux or AIX as /archive. This way, if the primary hard disk fails we will not lose the entire archive of d3backup files.

Subscribe to Pathfinders Remote FTP Service to make a copy of each FILE-SAVE each night that is stored offsite.

Best Possible Length Of Time To Send A File-Save

We have a very high speed connection to our backup servers (100 Megabit line). So any slowness will come from your end. Compare these speeds:

Data Transferred	Full T3	Full T1	768K DSL
500 megabytes / night	1 minute	45 min	1.5 hours
1 gigabyte / night	3 minutes	1.5 hours	3 hours 3 min
1.5 gigabytes / night	4 minutes	2 hours 19 min	4 hours 39 min
2 gigabytes / night	6 minutes	3 hours	6 hours 12 min
2.5 gigabytes / night	8 minutes	3 hours 51 min	7 hours 46 min
3 gigabytes / night	9 minutes	4 hours 38 min	9 hours 19 min
4 gigabytes / night	12 minutes	6 hours 10 min	12 hours 25 min
5 gigabytes / night	16 minutes	7 hours 43 min	15 hours 32 min