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EVnearSync 3.0
Intelligent Replication Instead of Backing Up

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Protect your critical Enterprise Vault data without the cost or complexity of
highly available storage solutions.

Key Features
Various high availability solutions are available
to keep your Enterprise Vault servers humming along but storage protection can be a
difficult, complicated and an expensive proposition. EVnearSync solves the problem using
your choice of UNC addressable storage.
Create a reliable secondary copy of each and
every archived item, eliminating the need for
backup and simplifying the recovery process.
Connect to a secondary copy in seconds instead of using a lengthy restore.
To guarantee the consistency of the data, all
items are compared using a sophisticated
hash code, before the Enterprise Vault safety
copy gets purged from the mail-, file- or sharepoint-servers. Only items where EVnearSync has successfully created a secondary
copy will be replaced with a shortcut.
A special fail-over mode allows Enterprise
Vault to automatically enter backup-mode
with data paths automatically re-pointed to
the backup locations.
EVnearSync provides a safe and secure storage replication solution for a fraction of the
cost of comparable hardware or software
based systems. Tight integration ensures fast
and easy recovery in the event of failure.
Reduce cost & reduce complexity without
compromising on function!

Use standard storage solutions

Replicate to any UNC addressable
storage solution, near or far - in an
intelligent way

Mix and match storage

EVnearSync supports any mixture of
source and destination storage solutions.
Why not get some more life out of those
older storage solutions

Choose your data protection strategy

EVnearSync uses MD5 checksums to
provide data consistency and integrates
with the Enterprise Vault Safety copy
mechanism

Fully transparent integration into

Enterprise Vault
With the Safety copy integration, data
loss is virtually impossible, even if the
replication has pending items

Replicates instead of backing-up

EVnearSync provides a backup free
scenario for Enterprise Vault if you
replicate to a secondary data center

Replicate VaultStores and Indexes

Replicate Vault Stores, EV Indexes and
SQL Backups transparently

Simplified recovery
Fast and easy, one-click fail-over for
protected vault store partitions. Full or
partial recovery of items is supported

No Dataloss Possible
Gain a Recovery Point Objective of zero

Failover automatically or with

one click
In the case of a storage disaster,
EVnearSync detects the outage and
switches over to the replica

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This is the home screen of the EVnearSync Administration Console.

The operator gets an overview of EVnearSyncs activity and replication statistics. It is user friendly and supportive
even when disaster operations have to be carried out.

How replication works:

Monitoring and Reporting

All your EVServers Services are monitored by EVNearSync and you
get alerted by mail if something fails.

Intuitive Admin Interface

Configure and operate using the new, intuitive web-based
interface

1.

EVnearSync checks the Enter

prise Vault Databases for newly
archived items.

2.

It creates a hash code for the

original File.

3.

It replicates the item to the

secondary location using object
based replication mechanism
(like CAS Systems).

4.

There, it creates hash code for

the replicated DVS-Files.

5.

If the two hash-codes match,

EVnearSync provides feedback
to Enterprise Vault about the
successful replication.

6.

Enterprise Vault now replaces

the Safety copy in the Mail-,
File- or Sharepoint-Server with
a shortcut or placeholder.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

I have a SAN mirrored to my 2nd data centre. Why should I use EVNearSync?
Even if you mirror your LUNs with storage mechanisms to a second data center, you still have the need
to backup your data. With EVnearSync the need for backups is eliminated.

What is the difference between Mirroring and Replication and why is my backup freed
up if I use EVnearSync?
Typically, Storage Mirroring works at a block-level. This is ideal if you have to provide real time failover
mechanisms for file systems or databases (e.g. Exchange). But if the file system in your first data-center
gets corrupt, this will be mirrored to the second data-center as well. So you still need to backup your
data. EVNearSync replication works on a per item level object based. As it keeps the individual filesystems logically separate, no file system corruptions will be replicated.
In addition EVNearSync integrates with Enterprise Vaults Safety Copy mechanism:
The original data on the Mail-, File- or SharePoint Server you archive from will only be deleted once the
replication has successfully completed. One more reason why you dont need a daily backup any more.

Do I still have to backup the Enterprise Vault Index?

Not necessarily. If you want to replicate the Index, you could use the Index Replication
in EVnearSync and define a recurring schedule (i.e. every 8h). Only the modified data
will be replicated. Of course you can create snapshots of older indexes on the target.

How can I replicate the EnterpriseVault SQL Databases?

Create a maintenance job in Microsoft SQL which dumps your Enterprise Vault databases
into a backup file. Then use the SQL Backup Replication in EVnearSync to replicate
those files to your DR location as well.

I have more than one EnterpriseVault server. How could I integrate EVnearSync?
EVnearSync can handle multiple Enterprise Vault servers and of course different Vault
Stores. You can install EVNearSync on each Vault Server so that the Data is pushed to
the secondary location. Alternatively you can install EVNearSync on any server in the
target location. The archived data will then be pulled.

I have to archive a lot of data every night. What is the performance of EVnearSync?
Of course replication performance depends on many factors like network bandwidth and
latency, disk performance and server load. Typically, we can replicate more than 100000
items per hour per Enterprise Vault server.

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