With support for Windows, Linux and Mac OS through a single Web GUI, CDP provides granular, globally enforced policy controls over the entire backup operation. Unmatched flexibility enables IT administrators to dictate what information to backup, what to exclude and how the information should be maintained to adhere to recovery and compliance requirements.

A sophisticated new fileset backup methodology combined with agent-based data de-duplication moves and stores only unique data blocks. This speeds the backup process and optimises bandwidth usage while maintaining total information continuity and the ability to flexibly restore multiple revisions. SonicWALL Continuous Data Protection 6.0 offers the comprehensive data protection organisations demand and the power administrators need for vigilant data backup and disaster recovery.

The SonicWALL Continuous Data Protection (CDP) 210 is ideal for small, remote or branch offices requiring flexible disaster recovery for workstations with usable capacity of up to 1.7 TB.

The SonicWALL Continuous Data Protection (CDP) 220 is ideal for small, remote or branch offices and distributed environments requiring flexible disaster recovery for multiple workstations and servers with usable capacity of up to 3.4 TB.

The SonicWALL Continuous Data Protection (CDP) 5040B is ideal for small-to-medium sized organisations demanding high capacity and flexible disaster recovery for multiple workstations and multiple server applications with RAID 5 and usable capacity of up to 10 TB. The CDP 5040B is designed as an upstream unit in a site-to-site data backup environment.

The SonicWALL Continuous Data Protection (CDP) 6080B is ideal for larger organisations with multiple workstations and server applications, with usable capacity of up to 20 TB, flexible disaster recovery options, RAID 5, and replaceable drives and power supplies. The CDP 6080B is a perfect upstream unit to backup multiple CDP appliances in a site-to-site data backup environment.

CDP Appliance operates as a dedicated disk-based backup and disaster recovery appliance, enables all CDP features and functions, including storage, file and application versioning, and offsite encryption and transmission. The SonicWALL CDP appliance is configured and administered via the Web Management Interface.

Web Management Interface provides the system administrator with the ability to create, manage and enforce administrative-level global policies and tasks for agents connected to a SonicWALL CDP appliance. It also provides initial network configuration, system settings, agent and offsite management, diagnostics, logging, reporting, and error handling, and allows for a full purge of data from the appliance.

Agent Software provides individual users and system administrators the ability to configure, create and apply local backup policies, view backup status and recover lost data. With administrative authorisation, a user can log in as an administrator to perform data recovery.

Recovery Manager for Exchange (RME) allows individual, message-level items to be restored from regular un-mounted .edb information store files without setting up a dedicated recovery server. It rapidly searches backups and databases for messages based on specified criteria, so it can easily recover from an accidental deletion or perform email discovery. Administrators can recover multiple mailboxes, single messages, public folders and more—all from a single interface. Administrators also can compare source and target folders for differences.

Universal System Recovery protects servers and workstations, their operating systems, and applications such as Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Active Directory and Domain Controller Server, as well as configuration settings and preferences. In case of a disaster, this enables administrators to quickly recover a complete system to dissimilar physical or virtual environments regardless of make, model, or installed components without having to rebuild a new system from the ground up.