Content from Storage Magazine UK Asigra Backup Supports Liverpool FC UK disaster recovery provider Backup Technology is providing Liverpool FC with Asigra's agentless distributed backup and recovery software Televaulting. Liverpool FC needed to protect its data to ensure that, if lost, the data could be quickly restored so that the daily running of the club would not be impacted. Backup Technology currently protects critical business data across Liverpool FC's three main sites: the main Anfield stadium and the two training grounds (Melwood and the Academy), which are geographically dispersed. The backup also includes data generated by the online ticketing information and the club shop (where point-of-sale data is generated), all emails from every office location, as well as desktops and laptops of key members of staff. Liverpool FC was previously using legacy tape-based backup and disaster recovery (DR). Switching to disk-to-disk from tape was essential for Liverpool to increase the speed of the backup and recovery, as well as to guarantee a 100% success rate in retrieving lost data. With the tape-based backup, every time a backup of the AS/400 ticketing system was carried out, the entire system had to be closed down, limiting backups to once a day only. Now Backup Technology carries out a backup for Liverpool FC on an hourly basis without interruptions to the system, even during peak periods. Ritchie Fiddes, head of sales at Backup Technology, stated: "The main reason why Liverpool FC chose our backup and recovery service, and Asigra's software, was RTO (recovery time objective). In a fast-paced business like Premiership football, you can't afford to wait for days for a tape to be returned to the office in order to restore lost, damaged or stolen data. A fully automated and internet-based backup and recovery service was essential for Liverpool FC and, using Asigra's Televaulting software, we were able to exceed all of Liverpool FC's requirements.