Neverfail for Microsoft File Server is the only high availability and disaster recovery solution
that proactively monitors your entire File Server environment, ensuring maximum
data availability and protection for the critical documents that drive
your business.
Typical file server backup strategies that mix frequent incremental backups with
occasional full backups may work in theory, but they cannot prevent losing changes
to data after the last backup was finished. In addition, these types of backups
do not address the redundancy required for true File Server high-availability and disaster recovery. Backup
archives may be available, but restoring data from multiple tapes is a time-consuming
process with an open invitation for error.
Neverfail for Microsoft File Server automatically configures protection for all
of your file shares as they are created, edited, or deleted, and continually reconfigures
itself to ensure that any and all changes are included in its replication set so
that the file server's data is always up-to-date and fully protected - no manual
intervention required.
Powerful VSS technology
Neverfail for Microsoft File Server can be used with the Microsoft®
Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) for added levels of protection. By configuring
VSS with different snapshot intervals on your primary and secondary Neverfail servers,
more frequent copies of old data are maintained. The combination of VSS and Neverfail
for Microsoft File Server gives you a robust failover environment that provides
continual access to files and maximum data protection, while doubling the performance
of VSS in retrieving deleted documents compared to VSS alone.
Automatic “one-button” failover and switchback
In addition to offering both manual and automatic failover / switchover capabilities,
Neverfail for Microsoft File Server also features the ability to seamlessly switchback
— something replication solutions can't offer. Neverfail seamlessly resynchronizes
servers when the primary server comes back online, then enables you to switchback
with the simple click of a button.
Designed for LAN and WAN environments
Flexible Neverfail architecture can be implemented in both LAN and WAN environments.
And, where bandwidth or network utilization is an issue or needs to be reduced,
the Neverfail
Low Bandwidth Module — a data compression tool — is available
to optimize and reduce the amount of data that is transmitted between the two servers.
Protection for a wide range of applications
Award-winning Neverfail products and plug-ins support mission-critical Windows®-based applications, including Microsoft® Exchange, SharePoint®,
SQL Server, File Server, and IIS, as well as RIM BlackBerry®,
IBM® Lotus® Domino®, VMware vCenter Server and Captaris®RightFax.
An added layer of powerful functionality is offered through our optional Low Bandwidth Module — a data compression tool, and all plug-ins include our Data Rollback Module.
Neverfail even provides out-of-the-box support for auxiliary applications such as anti-virus, archiving, back-up, anti-spam, and fax products. Please visit the Neverfail plug-ins page for a complete listing of all supported products.
Point-in-time data rollback
Neverfail's Data Rollback Module complements our core technology by providing a
simple and swift application restart from earlier points in time. This ensures data
restoration and the ability to regain data integrity quickly and efficiently after
data corruption has occurred. Neverfail Data Rollback Module runs directly on top
of Neverfail Heartbeat and utilizes the Microsoft® Volume Shadow Copy Service
(VSS) technology to provide an efficient application/data restoration and retrieval
mechanism.
Continuous Data Protection for File Server - Your Neverfail advantage
With Neverfail, you have a reliable, easy-to-use high availability and disaster recovery solution
at a fraction of the cost of traditional clustering solutions. Neverfail for Microsoft
File Server:
- Proactively monitors both the changes to and the overall health of the File Server
environment
- Automatically monitors key application components, services and performance attributes
- Protects almost any auxiliary application, including anti-virus, backup, archiving,
fax and more
- Provides either manual or automatic failover and switchback capabilities, with automatic
resynchronization between primary and secondary servers
- Ensures
high availability and disaster recovery over both LAN
and WAN environments
- Supports IT activities requiring planned downtime, such as migrations, upgrades, maintenance, and virtualization
Take advantage of Neverfail's high availability and disaster recovery solutions for comprehensive, affordable File Server
data protection.
