Data Backup and Mirroring

Security

There are other methods of having your data available and backed up. However, most of these services require that you put your data in someone else's control. What you don't hear is how your files are secured or how easy and convenient remote access is. How comfortable are you with that concept?

Backup Services

Vivatech will soon be offering a service that will provide off-site backup services using Reflections, DriveShare and CryptoFS to our customers. This will allow our customers to have a cryptographically secure backup that is accessible via the web. This backup will be constant using the Reflections product and will mirror your data to our servers every time you hit the save button on an application. Also, if you're ever away from your home LAN and need to access your data you can log in from your laptop or mobile device to view or download your files.

Rendezvous

Rendezvous is a service that Vivatech Incorporated provides that allows a Reflections client and server to access each other when one or both systems are behind a NAT (Network Address Translation, which allows a router to act as an agent between the Internet and a local network). The problem with NAT is that it relies on an outbound connection being instigated by the host computer and a system across the Internet cannot directly access a system behind a NAT router. This is where Rendezvous comes in. Two systems both connect to our server at the office. When only one device is using NAT we simply tell it to connect to the other system. When both devices are using NAT we can either proxy the connection (additional services charges may apply) or, in many cases, use an IP handoff technique.

Using Rendezvous is simple. You just register at Vivatech for the service, enter your user name and password on the server and client. The server will automatically detect when you need assistance to make a connection. The DriveShare server will show Rendezvous all the shares that it currently has and when you connect with a client all those shares will be available.

Also, Rendezvous will allow you to access files via a secure web server (so you will not have to download or install the client if you just need to get or drop off a few files) and future enhancements will allow you to search all the files you have access to and to set 'watches' for files and information. When a watch is triggered an email or instant message will be sent telling you of its availability.

Installation

Ease of installation: Simply provide the host, user, pass and let Reflections do the rest. It will attempt to log into the server in a variety of ways, find out what OS is in use, provide you with a choice as to how to make a connection to the server and then install the appropriate server software for your OS.

Installation is easy:

1. Simply install the service on both machines, select a user name, password and a directory to reflect.
2. Give the address of the remote Reflections server.
3. Log in to the remote server, select.