FalconStor Launches RecoverTrac Disaster Recovery Automation Tool

FalconStor Software Inc., specializing in disk-based data protection solutions, announced the availability of RecoverTrac technology—a disaster recovery automation tool.

Company sources added that the solution will be included as a standard feature of FalconStor (News - Alert) Continuous Data Protector (CDP). This platform helps FalconStor realize its vision of service-oriented data protection.

Recently, a leading analyst firm positioned FalconStor as a visionary within the Enterprise Disk-Based Backup/Recovery Magic Quadrant.

According to company officials the RecoverTrac tool is the first DR automation solution that brings service-oriented recovery to both physical and virtual server infrastructures. The RecoverTrac feature is capable of automating complex, time-consuming and error-prone failover and failback operations of systems, applications, services and entire datacenters.

This makes FalconStor CDP a comprehensive disk-based data protection system for backup and DR availability.

DR solutions are capable of replicating data to a remote DR site which results in IT staff doing all the complex tasks of reconstituting servers, applications, network configurations and replicated data into a functional set of data center services for business continuity.

Also the RecoverTrac tool not only replicates data, but stages the recovery of complete services. This in turn facilitates service-oriented data protection (SODP) as it fully automates the resumption of servers, storage, networks and applications in a pre-determined, coordinated process, explained company sources.

The RecoverTrac solution is compatible with all operating systems, virtual machines and networks besides also supporting physical-to-physical, physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-virtual recovery operations

In a release Jeff Hutchinson, director of information technology at Mendes & Mount, LLP said, “FalconStor’s RecoverTrac feature has allowed us to significantly decrease the amount of time needed to activate or test our disaster recovery site.”

“The ability to easily create, store and rerun RecoverTrac jobs greatly reduces the need for manual intervention. Previously, we had to create a lengthy and cumbersome step-by-step manual for our DR procedure, but the RecoverTrac tool has simplified this to single, simple page,” added Hutchinson.

The RecoverTrac technology offers a test mode and cloning capability. Test mode enables the entire recovery process to be executed without impact on production systems. Cloning capability allows a copy of application data to be used for other business purposes also.

“The beauty of the RecoverTrac solution is the way it facilitates a smooth failover of services to the DR site and failback to the home data center, which is a daunting process to manage manually,” pointed out Shawn Mears, network engineer at GDL Consulting, a FalconStor managed service provider.