Key Software replication Features of Netswap Products
- NAS to NAS and Windows to NAS support. No requirement for proprietary cloud services vendors or monthly fees. There is also no restriction on using approved and compatible Windows Rsync Client to send jobs to Highly Reliable System’s hardware appliances.
- Uni-directional or Bi-directional Sync jobs supported.
- Intelligent support for incremental changes insures only changed blocks are replicated to remote side.
- Replicate entire disks or do so by individual folders.
- Multiple replication jobs supported.
- Multiple locations supported. Replication jobs can send data to several locations.
- Static IP address not required. Support for inexpensive dynamic DNS services including dyn.com, easydns.com, dnspark.com, namecheap.com, and no-ip.com
- Accept and arrange multiple incoming replication jobs into folders to allow multiple customers or locations to utilize one destination NAS appliance.
- Replication can be scheduled to occur as frequently as desired (choosing frequency by minutes, hours, days, weeks, months).
- Ability to replicate to additional local drives (used to support multi-bay devices), allowing copies on multiple media and supplementing the built in mirroring capability.
- Ability to optionally encrypt replication jobs (AES 128, 256, RC4, DES, Triple DES), eliminating the need for VPN tunnels or other outside encryption.
- Ability to optionally compress replication jobs (settable levels from 1-9)
- Ability to throttle the use of bandwidth, using 3 user defined start/stop times to insure that end user Internet functionality isn’t impacted during business hours.
- User adjustable retries – to manage and retry failures caused by Internet outages or other problems.
- Support for maintaining file integrity, even if a backup or other file write is in progress to while replication is occurring (Snapshot functionality to freeze directory)
- Push or pull replication jobs supported between local and remote sites.
- Option to leave files deleted from source on the destination.
- Log files kept on the appliance to allow administrator to monitor or troubleshoot replication jobs.
- Continuous data grooming. Data integrity is checked during each replication pass to insure destination files have not become corrupt.
- Robust error recovery and reporting.
- Notify administrator via email upon beginning, completion, or failure of a replication job.
- User configurable connection ports (TCP 873, and 8873 are defaults) supporting all speeds of Internet connection.