Snap Enterprise Data Replicator Advanced Overview:
Snap
Enterprise Data Replicator Advanced (Snap EDR Advanced) is a
high-performance, network-optimized software solution for
managing and reporting on business-critical information
throughout a distributed enterprise. Snap EDR Advanced is a
breakthrough in affordable data mobility and management
capabilities for the enterprise. This software suite sets a new
price/performance standard for data management, allowing
companies of any size to cost-effectively implement
enterprise-wide backup, disaster-recovery and compliance
operations.
- Provides sophisticated data management capabilities
- Powerful centralized control
- Optimized for effective data transport over high-latency
networks
- Offers centralized policy-based management, protection,
and archiving
- Lowers overall cost of storage
In addition to replicating and protecting data, many
businesses need a robust way to manage the data that they have.
Making the most cost-effective use of their data requires the
ability to inventory systems to find out what data they have,
archive older data away from expensive primary storage, and
centralized backup and recovery to automatically move secondary
data to long term storage. Building on the powerful data movement
architecture of the Snap Enterprise Data Replicator (Snap EDR)
by Adaptec, Snap EDR Advanced provides enterprises with
sophisticated data management capabilities.
Three Steps to Data Lifecycle Management
The Snap EDR Remote Data Inventory solution is the right first
step for getting remote data under full control. Once armed with
accurate information about the data on your remote systems, you
can begin to manage this data, using the same Snap EDR software
implemented for Remote Data Inventory.
By adding the Snap EDR Remote Data Archive solution, you can
implement a policy-based central archive and remove
less-frequently used data from the remote storage server, while
maintaining transparent end user access to the data. Snap EDR
Remote Data Archive frees up valuable disk space at the edge,
shortening backup times, and ensuring data is captured for
compliance purposes.
With the Snap EDR Consolidated Backup solution, you can
eliminate reliance on inefficient, unreliable and costly tape
backups at each remote site with a single consolidated backup
process that can lower annual backup costs by up to 75%.
Powerful, Centralized Control
All Snap EDR Advanced solutions are configured, scheduled, and
monitored through the Snap EDR Management Console and are
included with the Snap EDR Advanced License. Snap EDR’s
intuitive installation and browser-based graphical interface
provides step-by-step data management and job monitoring and
control. The centralized control console can be accessed from
anywhere on the network for global access, while email
notifications can be set on a per job basis to increase the
granularity of event monitoring. All this provides the extra
flexibility administrators need for data management.
The console works in conjunction with the agents that live on
each server. Once the job is established, the agents do the
replication, working directly with each other.
Network Efficient
Snap EDR works well with any type of network, including
high-latency networks. Where bandwidth is limited, Snap EDR can
apply bandwidth throttles and use differential data transfer to
send only the bytes that have changed from within files. Snap
EDR delivers effective replication over high-latency networks.
Consolidated Backup and Recovery for Remote Data
Uncertainty from unreliable data backup processes at remote
systems and branch offices can keep even the most experienced IT
professionals awake at night. Individual tape backups at remote
sites frequently mean relying on non-technical personnel,
maintaining costly backup equipment and software at each office,
and ensuring that an offsite storage process is being followed.
Despite best efforts, many companies have an uncomfortably high
backup failure rate at remote facilities, and as a result have
an unacceptable level of risk and exposure.
Consolidated Backup and Recovery with Snap EDR Advanced
lowers backup costs by eliminating the need for tape and
equipment at remote locations. Backup images are consolidated
onto a central server for instant online access to the latest
backup images. With centralized management, backup processes for
remote sites are automated, reducing or eliminating the
dependency on remote staff for backup and recovery. All file
attributes and permissions are retained for restoration. The
Remote Data Backup module also works with Microsoft Exchange
2000 and Microsoft SQL 2000 to backup live data.
How it works:
Snap EDR automatically initiates backup consolidation on a
scheduled basis. Backup processes are then executed by Snap EDR
Agents, small software agents that reside on all Snap Servers,
Windows, UNIX, and Linux systems involved in the process. Snap
EDR identifies changes made to remote files since the last
backup and moves only the bytes that have changed from those
files to the central site, using network bandwidth efficiently
and enabling central backup even for sites with narrow
bandwidth. At the central site, consolidated data can be kept on
disk for nearline backup, or backed up to tape using integrated
BakBone NetVault software installed on all new GuardianOS Snap
Servers or the existing tape backup software at the central
site. If data is not received from any expected site,
administrators will be notified, greatly reducing the risk of
data loss.
Remote Data Inventory
To effectively manage data, you must have insight about the
data, such as:
However, getting access to this data profile
information can be difficult, particularly on heterogeneous Snap
Servers, Windows, UNIX, and Linux systems and attached storage
outside the data center. The Snap EDR Advanced Remote Data
Inventory solution automates profiling and central reporting of
data on Snap Server, Windows, UNIX, and Linux systems, and any
attached storage.
How it works:
Through the Snap EDR Management Console, the central web-based
control center for Snap EDR, users select systems for data
inventory, choose among a variety of file and data attributes to
be reported, and schedule one-time or periodic ongoing
profiling. Data inventory processes are then executed by Snap
EDR Agents, small software agents that reside on all Snap
Servers, Windows, UNIX, and Linux systems involved in the
process. Snap EDR Agents will scan selected directories on the
remote systems and capture file and data attributes, aggregate
the information for all profiled nodes, and email the report to
the designated user.
Remote Data Archive
In many companies, unmanaged, unused information is clogging
valuable storage space, exceeding the capacity of backup
equipment and tapes and causing missed backup windows. This
problem is most acute on systems outside the data center or in
branch offices where, often, there is no IT staff on hand to
help manage the remote data. Statistics show that if a file has
not been accessed in 90 days, it has only a 2% likelihood of
ever being accessed again. Continually storing and backing up
this infrequently used data is inefficient and costly. A best
practice approach to handling this data is to archive unused
data to lowercost disks while retaining easy end user access to
the data.
The Snap EDR Advanced Remote Data Archive solution reclaims
valuable storage by automating policy-based archive of files for
Snap Servers, Windows, UNIX, and Linux systems, and any attached
storage. By moving stale data from primary servers,
administrators can increase storage utilization, and make
archive storage for older files much more cost-effective.
How it works:
Archive processes, policies, and schedules are set up through
the Snap EDR Management Console, a central web-based control
module. Archive processes are then executed by Snap EDR Agents,
small software modules that reside on all Snap Servers, Windows,
UNIX, and Linux system involved in the process.
On a scheduled basis, the Snap EDR Agents will scan directories
on the remote systems and identify files that should be archived
according to the policies established. Some examples of archive
policies are: time since last access, size of file, type of
file, etc. The file is then moved from the remote system to a
central archive. On Windows servers a small file “stub” is left
in its place on the remote system, so that when archived files
are requested (2% likelihood), the file is transparently
retrieved from the archive location so that users can access the
file normally.
Snap
Enterprise Data Replicator™ Advanced (Snap EDR
Advanced)
