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CaminoSoft is dedicated to providing solutions that ensure high availability, disaster recovery and data reliability. This paper details CaminoSoft's vision for a disaster recovery solution that provides electronic protection of critical data at a remote location. The solution that provides this remote data protection is CaminoSoft's OFFSite Archive for NetWare. OFFSite Archive is a server application that can operate in conjunction with CaminoSoft's StandbyServer for NetWare or in a stand-alone configuration (primary server to remote data vault machine). Preservation and quick restoration of critical data are some of the benefits of OFFSite Archive. By maintaining a copy of critical data in a remote location, OFFSite Archive reduces the chances of data loss that could result from natural disasters, system threats, electrical outages, hardware faults, and software crashes. With OFFSite Archive, the remote data vault machine can be brought up in the remote location as the primary server or it can be moved to another location to service the needs of users. The software provides organizations with the needed flexibility and security as organization data contingency plans are implemented. No proprietary disk systems, monitoring devices, or special operating system software is required. OFFSite Archive is designed to function over slower, less-expensive WAN or Internet connections.
OFFSite Archive and the StandbyServer family of products are excellent network-based solutions for offsite disaster-recovery and local high-availability protection. They leverage industry-standard hardware and the NetWare operating system to extend electronic data vaulting to the general networking market place.
OFFSite Archive for NetWare offers:
- Protection for mission-critical network servers and data through electronic data vaulting.
- Configurable for local high-availability and remote data availability/disaster recovery.
- Facilitation of reliable disaster recovery-files are always in a known state at the remote site.
- Backups can be done locally and/or remotely-any time of the day or night.
- Data vaulting and open file protection solution that meets company contingency planning requirements, including the mandated regulations to financial, brokerage, insurance and government organizations.
- Leverages industry-standard hardware and software.
- Flexibility in choice of communication links: LAN, WAN, Internet (i.e., 56k modem, Frame Relay, ISDN, T1).
- Works with or without the StandbyServer solution.
- Support for NetWare 4.11, 4.2, 5.x and 6.
- Affordable solution-designed specifically for the general NetWare market.
- Novell certification and endorsement.
- Data mirroring traffic can optionally be routed over the production network or backbone.
Introduction
Traditional methods for backing up the network are, in many instances, becoming inadequate for ensuring the protection of an organization's data. Increasingly, organizations rely on their networking services and data integrity to such an extent that these are fundamental to business survival. If the business suffers a complete loss of data, it may not be able to survive. Recovery from just a single day's loss may require an immense amount of time and effort. The potential for this type of failure is so great in some industries-such as financial, brokerage, and government-that they are required by regulation to create contingency plans that ensure data protection and accessibility. OFFSite Archive is designed to address these issues.
System administrators now realize that a nightly tape backup may not be adequate. It leaves at risk as much as an entire day's worth of data transactions. Furthermore, because tape backup is not automated and is dependent on the diligence of a human operator, it may not have been executed correctly or adequately, putting even more data at risk. In the event of a disaster, whether physical or logical, the consequences can be exacerbated if conscientious procedures to move the backup copies to a remote site have not been followed. Copies of data that are not moved to a remote location could be destroyed in the same disaster that affects the online data. Restoration of the copied data can also be problematic, time consuming, and expensive.
The objective in developing a data protection/vaulting product such as OFFSite Archive is to provide a solution that protects against a localized disaster. Many studies suggest that as organizations increasingly rely on client-server systems to make real-time decisions, the data on those systems must be made not only secure but also available in the event of a hardware, software, or site failure.
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