What is the OGO Replicator?

Credit Union Data Vaulting Software

Let’s face it.  Sometimes a server just dies.  No warning. No whimpers.  Just cold hard silence.  You push power button – nothing.  You shake it. Nothing.  The question then is “do I have a good backup?”  and “how am I going to recover this server”.  Shortly thereafter the realization that your phone will be ringing off the hook every ten minutes for the next day asking “is the server backup”.

All of us hate this scenario yet here at Ongoing Operations we get this call twice a week on average from a Credit Union whose server just died.  It is the most common recovery scenario we face.  Fortunately, the Replicator exists and makes the whole thing a lot simpler.  The OGO Replicator is a combination of three different software components on an appliance based solution combined with some killer service.

Replicator Software

The combination of the three software components makes the Replicator very reliable as well as very efficient.  The first component software component installs an agent on each of your Windows based server. The agent takes an initial seed snapshot and then sends incremental copies of any changes to a local appliance that Ongoing Operations supplies.   This appliance gathers the data and uses a second piece of software to efficiently send all of the data offsite to an Ongoing Operations data center.  Finally the last piece is an embedded software component that can convert a server from Physical to Virtual (p to v) or from Virtual to Virtual (V to V) or from Virtual to Physical (V to P).  When you combine all three your backup and recovery is much faster and you are able to hit RTO and RPO objectives on either individual or all of your servers.

 

OGO Replicator Hardware

The Replicator provides both local and offsite protection of your data and recovery.  Online Backup or Data VaultingThis is important because sometimes you just have a single server fail and you need to recover it locally on the appliance.  Sometimes you have to recover everything offsite.  Either way, the Replicator and Ongoing Operations solve this problem.  The appliance is scoped during the sales process and scaled to meet however many servers you have.  On the remote site (OGO) we send all the backup data to a large SAN and VM Farm (that also runs our whole hosting platform).  It is super robust and reliable and has plenty of capacity to meet your needs.  The appliance handles all of your local snapshots as well as can be used to run backup servers (about two or three at a time).  Many clients also use it for release load testing and patching.  In a recovery mode, the appliance has enough umph to recover your servers in about 15 minutes and to run off of until you get new hardware.

 

OGO Replicator Support

OGO’s job is to make sure A) your backups work and when they don’t to fix them.  B) our crack Replicator team checks client server backups religiously, open tickets, troubleshoot problems, conduct recovery testing and make sure that when you need it – it works.  Like any IT endeavor things hiccup and bump along the way as software changes – but the team will make sure that things are logged, tracked, and resolved and contingency plans enacted if something isn’t working right.  The team also is responsible for recovering the servers when disaster strikes.

When you put the three components together, the OGO Replicator offers a fully managed backup, replication and recovery tool for any Windows server.

Want to know how quick you can get your data offsite with the Replicator?

Have questions about how the Replicator V2 compares to V3?  Check back next week for our next installment.

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