XPNTLArchive

Backup Planner

How long would your backups take?

Pick an XPNTL Archive system and see how long your first full archive takes, how long each backup after it runs with and without the staging tier, and how much data your schedule puts at risk. Every number comes from the Recovery Planner.

Backups after that (RPO)
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First full archive

 

With more or fewer drives

The Xponential difference · Backup window

 

Each backup: XPNTL staging vs conventional direct-to-tape

The Xponential difference · Recovery point (RPO)

 

Worst-case data at risk: XPNTL staging vs conventional direct-to-tape

Built on the LTO Show Recovery Planner. Methodology and sources are public. Tape write times are the Planner's; staging write speeds come from the SSDs' figures, or estimates for the Deskside's 2-drive RAID, and a backup to staging is never faster than the network link. The systems and staging sizes match the storage cost calculator and the Recovery Planner. LTO Show and XPNTL Archive share an owner.

What the three numbers mean

First full archive. The time to write everything you archive the first time to tape. Either the tape drives or the network link sets the pace, and the calculator says which. A first archive larger than the staging tier runs at tape speed, so more drives or a faster link are what shorten it.

Backup window. How long each backup after that runs. With staging, the changed data lands on disk or SSD at that disk's speed, and the tape write follows in the background. Direct-to-tape, the backup lasts as long as the tape write.

Recovery point (RPO). How much data you could lose: roughly the time between backups plus how long a backup takes. A shorter backup window lowers it, and so does backing up more often.

Restore time is the other half

How fast you can get the data back is a separate question. The Recovery Planner models restore time for recent projects, large restores, ransomware and site loss, with the steps before any data moves.