Disasters averted— instantly. Companies must be able to maintain access to data even in the event of a natural disaster or technological malfunction. With the snapshot option, available for all SnapServer solutions, Overland enables companies to increase backup efficiencies and meet recovery point and recovery time objectives by taking frequent point-in-time images of storage volumes located on any SnapServer on the network.
Fast backup and recovery are your business advantage
aot technology from Overland Storage enables IT administrators to take instant, disk-based point-in-time images of any SnapServer storage volume on the network. SnapServer solutions support snapshots of iSCSI volumes and the included VSS provider ensures application consistency on a Windows platform. Utilizing snapshots with VSS compliant backup applications increases backup efficiencies and reduce backup windows. IT administrators can take immediate or scheduled images of a file system without disrupting users.
Countless recovery points ensure recovery point and recovery time objectives are met  Unlike conventional snapshots, which typically allow a maximum of a few hundred recovery points, SnapServer replicas are designed to handle up to hundreds of thousands of recovery points ensuring that businesses can maintain data access even in the event of a disaster.
Customer Needs
Snapshots provide automated virtual point-in-time backup data with minimal storage usage.
Benefits
- Reduces administrative intervention required to restore individual end user files
- Increases application availability
- Reduces space usage required for backups
Highlights
- Momentarily pauses live volume activity to capture the most complete snapshot, while maintaining read/write access
- Can accommodate multiple concurrent snapshots
- Read-only access allows users to recover files without modifying the snapshot
- Reduces costs while enhancing data availability
- Integrated into GuardianOS and SnapServer Manager
Key Features
Instant virtual volume - The snapshot instantly captures a copy of the live volume.
Point-in-time image - The snapshot is a virtual image of the live volume as it appeared at the point-in-time when the snapshot was captured. It creates a nearly instant map of pointers to the actual blocks of data found in the live volume.
Disk-based storage - The snapshot images are stored entirely on disk. Blocks of data that have not changed since the completion of the snapshot remain in the live volume, while the original contents of data blocks that have changed are stored in designated "snapshot" spaces.
Sustained client access to the live volume - With the exception of a momentary pause as the live volume is frozen and captured in the snapshot image, network clients maintain read/write access.
Read-only access to the snapshot volume - Users have read-only access to the individual snapshot volumes. Since these snapshot images are true point-in-time copies of live volumes, users cannot manually modify them, protecting the snapshot from inadvertent user error.
Performance maintained during concurrent snapshots - The GuardianOS server can accommodate multiple concurrent snapshots per unit while continuing to maintain optimal performance.Product Compatibility
Included with Snap Server 650, 620 and 520; optional for Snap Server 410, 210, and 110.
Warranty
30 days
Support Options
GuardianOS Snapshot support is included as part of any GuardianOS powered Snap Server Support plan.
