Jeff Darcy the Canned Platypus:
My employer finally came out of stealth mode yesterday, so I can finally talk a little bit about what we do. What we provide is an “appliance” that plugs into a storage network in front of your old disk array, and gives you the ability to turn back the clock on your storage to any arbitrary point in the past. This differs from the snapshot products everyone already has, because it doesn’t require that you had the foresight to do a snapshot just before your database went nuts and messed up all of your data. You can always restore to just one minute before, without needing an omniscient snapshot strategy. Furthermore, restoration is instant. Sure, we’re still doing stuff behind the scenes for a while but, as far as anyone in front of us is concerned, every block on that volume just went back in time. Lastly, we store all that old data in a way that’s very space-efficient. We’ve worked with some Big Brains on how best to do this, and the result is a huge improvement over snapshot or backup non-solutions that require anywhere from 2x to 6x your original dataset size to get even less functionality.
That’s some mind boggling stuff. I didn’t even know that was possible. Good luck.