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Starting an Online Backup Business with StoreGrid – How to kick start your Trial

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At a glance…

• How do I setup and trial StoreGrid?

• How do I manage my customers?

• FAQs

StoreGrid Deployment

Location Your Customer’s location

Your hosted data center

Case A: • StoreGrid client installations

• StoreGrid Backup Server installations(s)

• StoreGrid Replication server for second level of protection

Case B: • StoreGrid Backup Server installation(s)

• StoreGrid client installations

• StoreGrid Replication server for second level of protection

File server

Desktops

Setup StoreGrid in server mode at your location – to receive backups from your customer location

Service ProviderHosted Backup Server(SERVER mode)

Laptops

MS Exchangeserver

MS SQL server

Service Provider

(CLIENT mode)

Case (A)

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File server

Desktops

Service ProviderHosted Backup Server(SERVER mode)

Backup desktops, MS Exchange servers, MS SQL Servers and file servers from client location

Laptops

MS Exchangeserver

MS SQL server

Service Provider

(CLIENT mode)

Case (A)

2Setup StoreGrid in server mode at your location – to receive backups from your customer location

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File server

Desktops

Service ProviderHosted Backup Server(SERVER mode)

Replication server

Add a second level of protection for backup server by StoreGrid Replication Server

Laptops

MS Exchangeserver

MS SQL server

Service Provider

(CLIENT mode)

Case (A)

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Backup desktops, MS Exchange servers, MS SQL Servers and file servers from client location

2Setup StoreGrid in server mode at your location – to receive backups from your customer location

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File server

Desktops

Setup StoreGrid in server mode at your customer’s location – as a local backup server.

Backup server at customer site(SERVER mode)

Laptops

MS Exchangeserver

MS SQL server

Service Provider

Case (B)

(CLIENT mode)

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File server

Desktops

Backup server at customer site(SERVER mode)

Replication server

Add a second level of protection by replicating the local backup server to a remote StoreGrid Replication Server

Laptops

MS Exchangeserver

MS SQL server

Service Provider

Case (B)

(CLIENT mode)

2

Setup StoreGrid in server mode at your customer’s location – as a local backup server.

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At a glance…

• How do I setup and trial StoreGrid?

• How do I manage my customers?

• FAQs

Backup server

Service Provider

Once you sign up customers for your business, you would add them under ‘Customers’ in StoreGrid server.

Trial CustomerABC Enterprises John Hopkins Medical Center

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Backup server

Service Provider

Once you sign up customers for your business, you would add them under ‘Customers’ in StoreGrid server.

The clients installations would be listed as ‘clients’ under each customer.The ‘Trial Customer’ in StoreGrid allows unlimited number of client machines to back up.

Trial CustomerABC Enterprises John Hopkins Medical Center

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Backup server

Service Provider

Once you sign up customers for your business, you would add them under ‘Customers’ in StoreGrid server.

The clients installations would be listed as ‘clients’ under each customer.The ‘Trial Customer’ in StoreGrid allows unlimited number of client machines to back up.

Trial CustomerABC Enterprises John Hopkins Medical Center

As your business grows, you can just keep adding more ‘Customers’ in your StoreGrid server console!

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Do I require a trial license key?

No, you do not require any license key for the first 30 days trial. StoreGrid's Service Provider Edition Trial installation has a 'Trial Customer’. StoreGrid client installations can backup the data without requiring any trial license key.

Which means that you can have unlimited clients backing up for 30 days without requiring license keys.

If you wish to add more customer groups to test StoreGrid, you need a license key (Please apply for the license key at: http://www.vembu.com/storegrid/data-backup.html)

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Q How do I trial more customer groups other than ‘Trial Customer’ within StoreGrid server?

You can use StoreGrid SP Edition to trial more customer groups:(a) in the initial 30 days,

- by using the trial license key to add more paid customer groups to which clients back up to.

(b) After the 30 day trial, by - either purchasing StoreGrid to support more clients- (or) by using a trial license key

To receive your trial license key, please apply http://www.vembu.com/storegrid/data-backup.html In case you wish to renew your trial license key, please write to us at storegrid-partner@vembu.com

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At a glance…

• Other FAQs– Can I trial MS Exchange

and MS SQL backups?– Is there a data storage

limit? – What is the recommended

configuration? – Can I re-brand StoreGrid? – What OSes are supported?– How can I upgrade from

trial version?– Can I have a trial

extension?

Does the trial license support MS Exchange and MS SQL backups? How do I test them?

Yes, the StoreGrid trial version supports MS Exchange and MS SQL backups. You will find detailed instructions to backup MS Exchange server in our help documentation here. http://www.vembu.com/storegrid/helpStoreGrid supports backup of Microsoft Exchange servers using two types of plug-ins: Basic Plugin and Advanced Plugin. The trial version has the Advanced Plugin functionality included. The Advanced plug in is much more flexible and efficient while backing up MS Exchange servers. It supports backup of storage groups in entirety, as well as individual mailboxes within the storage groups. Note: that with Microsoft Windows 2008 servers, basic plugins for Exchange backup will not be supported as Microsoft is deprecating the NTBackup utility.

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Is there a limit on how much data can be backed up in the StoreGrid trial version?

No, StoreGrid has no limit on the amount of data backup storage in the full featured trial version.

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Is there any recommended hardware configuration for StoreGrid trial?

StoreGrid’s minimum required hardware requirements are 64 MB RAM and at least 1 GB of free disk space.

Please refer to our sizing guide at: http://www.storegrid.net/docs/storegrid/Storegrid-Sizing-Guide.pdf

- This document discusses the scalability and recommended infrastructure for a StoreGrid server in terms of number of clients and bandwidth requirements.

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Can I re-brand StoreGrid with my Company and product logo?

Yes, you can. We have three branding options – basic, advanced and white-labeling.

You can customize the user interface with your company and product logos, configuration settings etc. and generate your own branded build using Build-O-Matic, our automatic build generator.

You can view the complete set of customizable features for each of the branding options to get your branded builds. To receive access to this, if you haven’t already applied, please fill up our enquiry form here: http://www.vembu.com/storegrid/partner-form.php

If you have, please explore the ‘Overview of branding options’ section.

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Windows OSes

Windows 2003/2000 Server Windows 2003 SBS Windows XP, Vista, 2000 and 2008

Linux OSes

RedHat Enterprise, 8.0 and higher Fedore Core 3 and higher CentOS 4.2 and higher

Mandrake Linux 10.0 and higher

Debian 3.0 and higher

Ubuntu 5.10 and higher Gentoo 5.10 and higher SuSE Linux 9.0 and higher

Macintosh (Client Only)

Intel Mac - Mac OS X 10.4.5 & above, PowerPC Mac - Mac OS X 10.3.x & 10.4.x

Unix OSes

FreeBSD 5.4 and later

What Operating Systems are supported in Vembu StoreGrid SP Edition? Q

A The following operating systems are supported in the latest version of StoreGrid SP Edition.

If you opt for 'no branding' or 'basic co-branding' then you can continue to use the trial installations in production once you buy the licenses.

You could simply apply the new build over your existing one and everything will work as before.

What will happen if I purchase - should I re-install StoreGrid all over again? What will happen to the backups taken under trial licenses?

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I have not had a chance to test the software fully. How do I extend the trial?

In case you require an extension of your trial licenses, drop us a mail at storegrid-partner@vembu.com and we will revert back to you at the earliest.

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To receive access to pricing, discounts and other benefits, please fill up our enquiry form here: http://www.vembu.com/storegrid/partner-form.php

In case of any other query, feel free to write to us at storegrid-partner@vembu.com

Happy Testing!

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