GB Labs delivers industry-leading backup and archive solutions built for the demands of media and entertainment. Our intelligent systems provide robust back up solutions for long term data protection, scalable performance to grow with your project needs, and secure archive storage to ensure your content is both safe today and preserved for the future.

A second copy of live projects

The goal of a backup is to provide data security by having multiple copies of important data or work in progress. There are several types of backups: live = a complete failover, scheduled = time to recover before next backup, and snapshot = access previous time-stamped versions.

Store completed projects safely and securely.

The goal of a secure archive storage setup is to free up valuable storage space for new work and helping reduce costs. By moving completed projects into long-term data archive, you can keep media safe and accessible without overloading your primary online systems. Archives can be maintained on disk, tape, or the cloud, depending on your workflow requirements.

It's important to know how they differ and how they can help workflows

The main difference between the two is that backup systems are used to restore your ongoing projects, whilst archives are used to retrieve completed projects.

Secure and reliable nearline storage

The ECHO range of nearline storage is the ideal partner to our online storage ranges offering accelerated movements of data, scheduled snapshot replication with checksums and extensive reporting. ECHO can also be used to backup other storage systems and with very strong network performance can be used temporarily in an online role such as editing in place.