Snap Enterprise Data Replicator Express Overview:
Snap Enterprise Data Replicator Express (Snap EDR Express) is
a high-performance, network-optimized software solution for nearline
and long distance disaster recovery of business-critical information.
Snap EDR Express allows companies of any size to easily and cost-effectively
implement disaster recovery for enterprise data stored on Snap Servers.
Tiered security and network optimization features protect valuable
business data while in transit across private and public networks.
And, your data is instantly accessible in case of disaster, eliminating
downtime and lost productivity.
- Enterprise-class replication for IT departments of any size
- Disaster recovery for GuardianOS Snap Servers
- Tiered security with built-in certificate authentication
and user-selectable encryption
- Byte-level differential and bandwidth throttling for effective
replication over high-latency networks
- Web-based management for easy job scheduling and monitoring
Award-winning Snap Server™ by Adaptec provides a simple, cost-effective
way to consolidate data, while still providing instant access to
users throughout a corporation. However, as the quantity of critical
data being stored on Snap Servers increases over time, the challenge
becomes how to protect that data without breaking the IT budget.
The chosen data protection solution must address several challenges:
protect against file data corruption, operate without impacting
access to user data, and provide for instant data availability in
the event of a disaster, whether that disaster is a local server
failure or regional disaster. Snap Enterprise Data Replicator (Snap
EDR) Express by Adaptec solves these challenges, providing an enterprise-class
disaster recovery solution for IT departments of any size.
Snap EDR Express is an enterprise-class replication solution,
providing both nearline and long distance disaster recovery for
GuardianOS-based Snap Servers. Snap EDR Express replicates selected
directories, files, and shares between source and destination Snap
Servers, whether they are in the same room or across the country.
The initial synchronization creates a copy of the selected dataset
from the source server to the target location on the destination
server. Each subsequent replication job transfers only the differences
between the servers at that point in time to ensure that the dataset
on the destination server is kept current. For organizations with
two active sites, Snap EDR Express can even be used for bidirectional
replication, so the Snap Server in each office is both active storage
and backup storage for the other office.
Snap EDR Express for Long Distance Disaster Recovery
To fully protect your business’ information assets, and to provide
access to those assets even during regional disruptions such as
power outages and earthquakes, you need to keep an active copy of
your data well outside of the potential impact zone. Snap EDR Express
is network optimized, allowing destination servers to be located
thousands of mile away, connected via a WAN or Internet connection.
Snap EDR Express keeps its impact on the network to a minimum by
using byte-level differential replication, moving only the changed
bytes of a file rather than the whole file, reducing network traffic.
Snap EDR Express is highly resilient: if the network goes down during
a replication job, it will start again from where it left off when
the network becomes available. The high security model present in
Snap EDR Express will keep your data safe, even when it is being
transferred over less-than reliable public networks.
Snap EDR Express for Nearline Backup
Should a source server ever fail, users can directly access their
replicated files from the destination server until the source server
is returned to service. Snap EDR Express provides substantially
improved time-todata advantages over traditional tape-based backups:
no need to load a tape, find the data, transfer it, uncompress it,
and copy it on disk. Snap EDR Express provides immediate access
to data on the destination server, eliminating down time and lost
productivity. Once the source server has been repaired or replaced,
the servers can be re-synchronized simply and easily, without impacting
data access.
Flexible, Policy-Based Management
Snap EDR Express provides the ability to customize replication scheduling
to meet the unique needs of each business process, whether those
needs are near real-time replication or once-a-day backups, or any
combination in between. Not all data is created equal, which is
why Snap EDR Express can manage customized replication schedules
by directory, allowing more important data to be synchronized as
often as needed.
Part of the Snap EDR Family
Snap EDR Express is part of the Snap EDR product line, and can grow
with the business through seamless product upgrades. Snap EDR Express
is designed for one-to-one replication between two Snap Servers
for data protection and disaster recovery. As the business needs
grow to include data consolidation, distribution and management,
Snap EDR Express can be easily upgraded to Snap EDR or Snap EDR
Advanced without impacting your core disaster recovery solution.
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Enterprise Data Replicator™ Express (Snap EDR Express)
