Leveraging the GuardianOS Data Migration Utility
Migrating data from file servers to a storage server while maintaining user and group permissions can be a long, tedious task, and can produce inconsistent and unpredictable results. This paper articulates how the GuardianOS Data Migration Utility – built into Snap Servers – makes this process easy. The tool also enables administrators to verify the success of data transfer and provides them with the capability to restart a transfer from the point of failure.
Disaster Recovery for Branch Offices
Remote offices and retail locations present unique data protection challenges. Backup solutions must protect all computers at the remote site, enable quick restores of data, and provide a strategy for long-term offsite storage of backups to protect against disaster – all with minimal IT resources. This paper shows how Snap Server combines right-sized software and hardware into reliable, cost-effective remote office data protection.
Overcoming Data Protection Challenges of the Modern Distributed Business
See how the Snap Server Data Protection Solutions can increase reliability and recovery strategies while minimizing administrative time and costs and optimizing the aquisition costs of the solution.
iSCSI – Unified Network Storage Increases the Cost-Effectiveness of the Distributed Information Value Chain
Moving to networked storage has traditionally meant you could move file data across your existing Ethernet, but accommodating block data from email and database applications has required the installation of a costly storage area network (SAN). This paper details how an iSCSI-enabled IP SAN moves block data easily across your existing Ethernet, to deliver the benefits of a SAN without the cost, complexity, or IT overhead.
ID Mapping – Simplifying Heterogeneous File Sharing
Centralized shared storage enables organizations to maximize application resources, eliminate isolated data pockets, and reduce operating costs. This paper discusses how to offload file services from application servers to centralize data from multiple servers and desktop clients onto a single Snap Server. This solution can benefit organizations of all sizes and types – even in heterogeneous environments.
Overview of Data Replication
How much of the data in your organization goes unprotected because back-ups are too resource-intensive? Data replication is a simple way to protect all the data in your organization with minimal IT overhead. This paper discusses the different types of replication available; the strengths, weaknesses, and value proposition of each; and alternative data protection options for your business.
Aggregating File Data with Snap Enterprise Data Replicator (Snap EDR)
This solution allows users to aggregate file data to a common location from multiple Snap Server™ by Adaptec units, Windows clients, and UNIX/Linux clients.
Backing up and Restoring File Data with Snap EDR: Best Practices
Get the most from your backup and restore operations by learning to protect data assets at remote locations and easily restore from a central backup repository in case of disaster.
Remote Data Management and Backup with Snap EDR
Learn how to make the best possible use of your existing storage space and delay capacity expansions. This paper details how to use the Inventory Data tool in the advanced edition of Snap Enterprise Data Replicator to identify files that are rarely or never used, then create archiving policies to remove them from the active system for offline storage.
Distributing File Data with Snap EDR: Technical Overview
See how easily you can distribute price lists, deliver product manuals to customers, send source code, and synchronize widely distributed standard corporate legal documents.
Replicating File Data with Snap EDR
This paper details the components and configuration of a data replication solution using Snap Enterprise Data Replicator (Snap EDR). Learn how schedule a job where files are transferred from one source machine to one target machine using a variety of environments – including Snap Servers, Windows clients, and UNIX/Linux clients.
Archiving File Data with Snap EDR
Choose the Archive module of Snap EDR to make the most of your storage space by removing rarely used files and storing them elsewhere in a permanent archive.
Inventory File Data with Snap EDR
This paper provides an overview of Snap Enterprise Data Replicator (Snap EDR), and details how to deploy a cross-platform data inventory management solution based on Snap EDR. Learn how to use Snap EDR to automatically determine storage utilization, then use this information to formulate archival policies for removing rarely used files from the system and storing them elsewhere to create additional system storage space.
Disk-to-Disk Backup for Fast, Cost-Effective Backup, Restore, and Nearline Storage
D2D technology benefits businesses of all sizes by enabling shorter backup windows, faster restores, quicker nearline access, investment protection by leveraging existing tape hardware, and better backup economy through incremental backups. This paper explores these D2D technology and benefits, as well as how to maximize them with a solution using Snap Servers.
Unicode and the Implications of Its Implementation
Discover how the latest GuardianOS operates when Unicode is enabled. Unicode allows a single software product to be targeted across multiple platforms, languages, and countries without re-engineering the existing environment.
Usable Disk Capacity: a Detailed Explanation
Learn more about a subtle misconception about stated drive capacities.
Best Practices RAID Implementation for Snap Servers and JBOD Expansion
See how to best configure RAID for Snap Servers and JBOD Expansion and learn how you can choose configuration options for a range of capacity and availability needs to best meet your specific requirements.