How The Sonicwall Cdp Offsite Service Works - SonicWALL CDP 6.0 Administrator's Manual

How Does SonicWALL CDP Work?
For more information on Bare Metal Recovery, refer to the Bare Metal Recovery and Local
Archiving - Workstation User's Guide.

How the SonicWALL CDP Offsite Service Works

The SonicWALL CDP Offsite Service provides a secure server, or Portal, that stores backed
up data for protection against local disaster. During registration of your SonicWALL CDP
appliance, you are able to select a North American or European data center. You can also use
the Web Management Interface to configure another upstream SonicWALL CDP appliance for
offsite backup.
The SonicWALL CDP Offsite Service is offered as a subscription-based service.
Note
Data transmitted and stored securely at either the North American or European Offsite Service
is available for retrieval when onsite data has been destroyed or the onsite appliance has been
rendered inoperable, enabling an enterprise to be up and running quickly after a disaster event.
Compressed, full-database and full-file (with latest revision) data blocks are encrypted and
transmitted from the SonicWALL CDP appliance to the Offsite Service. Offsite Service
communication uses SSL/TLS transport layer encryption, and AES application layer
encryption. In the event that a local SonicWALL CDP recovery is not viable, the SonicWALL
CDP administrator can recover the data from the Offsite Service using an encryption key.
Data backed up using the SonicWALL CDP Offsite Service is protected by AES (advanced
encryption standard) 256-bit encryption, and can only be recovered using an AES 256-bit
encryption key, set automatically and available only to the network administrator. Data stored
using the Offsite Service is fully secure, as it cannot be decrypted without the key, even by
SonicWALL technical support engineers.
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