The RBS Mirror Client is an automated, scheduled utility that mirrors your RBS Server to a remote (or local) computer through the RBS Mirror Server running on your RBS Sever. It must be used in conjunction with the Mirror Server, which should have already been installed on your RBS Server computer.
The RBS Mirror Server and the RBS Mirror Client maintain an exact copy of the important directories of your RBS Server at an offsite (or onsite) location. Whenever files are added, updated, or deleted on your RBS Server, those changes are reflected on the remote computer (called the Mirror.) The Mirror Service can mirror multiple drives and Data Root folders.
The Mirror Server software runs on your RBS Server computer. The Mirror Client software runs on the remote computer. You can schedule the Mirror Client software to launch weekly, daily, hourly or less. It can be scheduled to launch during off-peak hours for your Remote Backup Service, making efficient use of available bandwidth.
The result is an exact duplicate of your RBS Server, ready to put into service if needed, or ready for you to copy files back to your RBS Server.
The Mirror Service can also be configured to archive files that have been deleted from the RBS Server. You can set it up so that when Clients delete files from the RBS Server manually, or through the automated File Retention settings of the Remote Backup Client software, the Mirror Client software copies them to an (often cheaper) offline storage location instead of simply deleting them.
What the Mirror Server WILL NOT do…
This is the first release of the RBS Mirror Server. In this release, it acts only as a Replication Server, simply mirroring the RBS Server’s main folders. Future releases will add advanced functionality to address the following issues.
· It will not fail over automatically if the RBS Server fails.
· It will not re-synchronize with the RBS Server after an outage.
· Unless you have a fully-licensed copy of the RBS Server software running on the Mirror, clients will not be able to back up and restore to the Mirror.
· The Mirror Server does not function as a fully-automated failover RBS Server.
You may be able to build a fully fault-tolerant Mirror using various utilities and a fully licensed RBS Server, available separately from Remote Backup Systems.