Infortrend's Snapshot is tailored to provide instantaneous point-in-time copies of data that look and behave like complete backups without consuming equivalent disk space. The snapshot images are ideal for various applications including backup, testing or development, information analysis and data mining.

  • Overview
  • Benefits

In business-critical environments, users require frequent protection for their valuable data sets. However, with the traditional way of tape and full copy backups, this is not practicable since it will create excess space consumption and performance degradation. To eliminate this conflict, Infortrend's Snapshot allows users to perform instant, low-impact backups with space-efficient differential copies.

In the instant of snapshot creation, a point-in-time data image is taken without disrupting online applications. Based on the image, data changes will be copied to the snapshot volume when new writes occur. With copy-on-write design, Infortrend's Snapshot protects production data from accidental modifications, deletions and corruptions with minimal capacity requirements and performance overhead. By accessing a snapshot copy as the desired recovery point, users can immediately restore system availability from data disruption.

Space-Saving, Point-in-time, Copy-on-write Methodology

The Difference Infortrend's Snapshot Makes:

IT Problems With Infortrend Snapshot
Prolonged system downtime when virus, hardware failures or human errors cause data corruption Recover application data in seconds by instantly restoring deleted files or rolling data volume back to the desired previous state
Consuming space and system power to create full volume clones as data backup Create immediate, differential copies for data backup with minimum capacity and performance impacts
Compromise on data protection for limited snapshot frequency and number Support up to 1,024 snapshot images taken in at least 10-minute intervals for a source data volume
Spend administrative time manually taking snapshots and deleting the outdated ones to control capacity Automate snapshot creation and management based on schedules and policies

Infortrend Snapshot can bring you:

Increased Availability

Restore files and roll back data in seconds. Data are protected from accidental or malicious loss to ensure the highest system availability.

Space-Efficient, Low-Impact Data Protection

Create immediate, differential copies. Users can instantly take point-in-time data images without disrupting online applications and use them as granular recovery points while consuming the minimum disk space and performance to store only data changes.

Simplified Management

Provide scheduling and capacity control mechanism. Minimal manual intervention is required to take and manage snapshots.

Deployment Flexibility

Allow flexible configuration on snapshot frequency and support up to 1024 snapshots for each source data volume. Users can deploy different levels of snapshot protection depending on data importance