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 VirtualCenter 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 server consolidation (virtualization)

Take advantage of Neverfail's high availability and disaster recovery solutions for comprehensive, affordable File Server data protection.