Remote backup is the process of creating a backup of computer data from a remote administration point. The term remote backup is often used interchangeably with
online backup, which is the process of transferring backup data to an offsite data storage center. Remote backup typically also uses online backup for data storage offsite.
The ability to perform a remote backup is critical for administrators protecting a distributed computing environment, which may have data residing on geographically-dispersed computer systems such as those located at remote offices and branch offices. Remote backup services such as CRC DataProtection use an
agentless architecture, allowing a backup administrator to protect an unlimited number of machines on a network without manual installation of a backup software agent on each machine.
Remote backup processes require that an administrator define a backup set which may include drives or folders on any number of systems. They can then automate the backup service to compress, encyrpt and transfer the data defined in the backup set to an offsite
data center facility for safekeeping.
The advantage of remote backup for organizations protecting large numbers of machines is that per-seat licensing doesn't apply to
agentless backup services such as those provided by CRC DataProtection. Instead, pricing is based on total storage used, which might be the same net capacity for five systems or five-hundred systems.
