With Redstor's backup solution, users complete their own restores at the click of a button, and crucially don't have to wait for anything else to be restored - just what they require. Files are opened as normal from original locations and by putting power in the hands of the users, IT staff are free to retrieve data and systems in the background without being hassled for updates.
Elliot is convinced his decision to move to Redstor Pro recently has been fully vindicated.
He said: ''If we had not switched I think we'd have had to courier a USB, an external hard disk or transfer the data across.
"But we would not have been able to access files straight away like we did with InstantData.
''Under the old system we would have taken two or three days possibly restoring the data - because we had 1TB of data coming across the network. Waiting for a full recovery to finish before we could start accessing files would have taken days.''
Redstor Pro continued to recover everything in background, completing a full recovery on the second day, but Elliot said: Because of InstantData the users did not notice that we were still down. They thought we were back up and running. It was that seamless.
The school's previous backup solution required Elliot to manage and administer tape every day and he was more than happy to adopt a recommendation by the Girls' Day School Trust to switch to the cloud.
He said: ''I was sick of tapes. I had to change them every day and it was hard work keeping track of them all, remembering to put a new one in and not override the previous tape. It was also slow because you had to go through the whole tape - and there was the cost of buying the tapes and the drives.
''I'm not sure I would have been able to recover the data I had if I was still using tapes because I had a similar failure when I was putting a tape into a newly built server and it did not know what to do with the software because it was a different version.
''I would definitely recommend Redstor. A few schools were a bit nervous about going over to it, but it's a lifesaver.
"What could have been a disaster for our school turned out to be just another day.''