CDP

The Everyday
Challenges
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Backup Pains
Backup Pains
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Why is Data Lost
Source: Ontrack Data

International
• More than 95% of data loss happens at the local site

• 53% “Soft” errors
– Human error + DB corrupted + system crash + patch update + virus+ hacker…..
• 47% “Hardware” error
– Hardware malfunction + shared storage failure + nature disaster…
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Backup Window Impact
• Backup Software agents have significant impact on Host

server CPU utilization and disk I/O
Backup Agent uses host CPU to read

files from the disk via the I/O channel •Lost productivity
processes & transmits the files to the •User
User complaints
media server over the LAN. •Backup window Impact
Backup Window
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Introduction to CDP

FalconStor Continuous Data Protector
Continuous Data Protector (CDP)

Changing the Rules of Backup and Disaster Recovery
• Unified solution for Backup & Disaster Recovery

• Delivers continuous data availability with 100% data integrity
• Application-aware data protection provides instant restore to any
point, plus 255 snapshots per LUN
• Patented FalconStor WAN-optimized heterogeneous replication
reduces bandwidth and storage costs for DR
• Eliminates backup window and provides best RPO, and 15 minutes
RTO for any application, physical or virtual
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FalconStor’s CDP at a Glance
• Provides TOTALLY Open™ disk-based data protection

for recovery to any point in time
• Long Distance Replication leverages MicroScan™
technology to reduce bandwidth costs and replication
time
• Active File, Database and Messaging Protection with
100% Transactional Integrity
• Massively scalable solutions - from SMB to large,
global enterprises
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FalconStor CDP By The Numbers
1 solution
for physical
/virtual/local/r
30 min
emote remote
Disaster
recovery
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The Technology
(In Brief)

Continuous Protection For Rapid Recovery
Rapid Recovery,
Falconstor CDP
Locally or Remotely
Easily Configure Backup
Policy and backup
Easily Backup data
File Data everything
Backup and Recovery Plan
verification and restore

Database rehearsal to guarantee the Storage Provisioning from
data recoverable Entire server snapshot easily for
verification and restore
mirroring rehearsal
Application Capacity to fast recover
from any kind of file and
System software error
Storage Provisioning from
snapshot that recover
server disk error in
minutes
Server Recovery from storage and Multiple recovery

Recover server from
Hardware hardware error methods snapshot in minutes
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FalconStor CDP: Unified Backup/DR
for Physical/Virtual servers with Instant Availability
10 Min. Recovery from HW/SW Failures Protect Physical & Virtual Servers
SQL
DB2 Oracle Exchange Virtual Server
Sybase Notes SharePoint
Physical Server
Data Center
ROBO
Tape Library Backup Server WAN
255 Bootable Snapshot

Recovery Points
Serverless tape vault backup/recovery

Eliminates Backup Window Many to 1 any-to-any Replication
HyperTrac for File backup SRM certified, 30 Min. Site Recovery
ZIB for image backup
DR Center
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Instant Recovery Eliminates Mandatory Restore
3rd party tape Any server
backup software
Time-Consuming Restore
process via LAN (1Gb/s)
LAN
1. Locate & mount the Tape 2. Restore (transfer) data to the host 3. Process the data
FalconStor
CDP Appliance
The Power of Disk Any server

Instant data recovery
Virtual LUN
using disk over SAN
without tape or “restore”
SAN (FC, iSCSI) No need to transfer data
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Snapshot Agent/DiskSafe Impact
• Unlike Backup Software agents, FalconStor Agents do not

impact system production
• More frequent, no impact Backup
Agent
FalconStor Snapshot Agents and
DiskSafe Agent do not impact Regained
system I/O or CPU productivity
FalconStor
Agent
• Backup during production, not off hours!
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FalconStor CDP Solves All the Backup Pains
Continuous backup eliminates backup window
Instant access replaces data restore
Policy based protection, setup and forget
Instant backup validation w/100% recovery
255 snapshot recovery points w/o media mgnt
10 minutes local recovery for any hw/sw errors
85% media saving (Reduce backup job from 365 to 52 )

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Thin Replication
(In Brief)

FalconStor’s Replication Benefits
• Flexible
– Operating system, protocol and storage agnostic
• Performance
– Maximise bandwidth via MicroScan® Technology
– Parallel TCP sessions (Trunking, QoS, 100% switch friendly)
• Recovery
– Guarantees RTO (less than 30 min.) with data integrity
• Resilience: Self-healing replication
– Automatic reconnect/resume based on availability of WAN, DR site
– Switch between Continuous & Delta Replication automatically based on the
availability of WAN, DR site
• Security
– End-to-End data encryption
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Real world replication savings example (US)
• Legal Services firm benchmark
• 83 days worth of replicated data
Site File System Filtered by Actual GB Percentage
Change in GB MicroScan Transferred Reduction
Houston 4,869 4,017 852 82%
New York City 16,176 13,409 2,767 83%
Wash D.C. 7,289 5,581 1,708 77%
Atlanta 73,376 62,527 10,849 85%
101,710 85,534 16,176 84%
Avg per Day 1225 1031 195 84%
Min. Storage Unit to FalconStor NetApp HDS EMC
Track Changes on Disk
512 Bytes 4 KB 16 KB 32 KB
Storage Efficiency 1 8 x less 32x less 64x less
efficient efficient efficient
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Real world replication savings example (Singapore)
• Legal Services firm benchmark

• 14 days worth of replicated data
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MicroScan vs Track-based replication
Host updates Sending changed Tracks
a disk sector
512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b
512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 32K Track 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b
is replicated
Sending Changed Sectors

Host updates
a disk sector 512byte Sector 64 times more efficient
is replicated
512b
512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b
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The Recovery
(Stuff which you never knew!)

Recovery 1: BMR
Server recovery via Recovery CD
DB Server
Corruption at
OS/App (C:)
1300
13:00 12:00 11:00
DB (D:)
Logs (E:)
G 13:00 12:00 11:00
OS/App 13:00 12:00 11:00
• Recovery CD used to rebuild physical disk from a selected snapshot

• Common CD used for all Wintel Systems
• WinPE based so no challenges on drivers
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Recovery 2: Rapid Server HW Recovery
Server recovery in 10 minutes
Traditional Backup FalconStor CDP
Need spare parts.

Server HW
Wait for server HW repair, then
Failure
restore the system before
restarting the service.
Ethernet
FC or
Server recovery Ethernet
from standby VM in
F a few minutes
10:00 11:00
Standby
One Month Backup Virtual
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Machine
11:00 iSCSI
F I I I I I I
F I I I I I I
Assign snapshot disk to
F I I I I I I VIrtual
standby VM by raw device
F I I I I I I Server
mapping
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Recovery 3: Rapid Mailbox Recovery
Recover Mailbox in 10 Mins
Message Recovery for

Exchange 2003/2007
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Recovery 4: Rapid Storage Recovery
Recovery from H/W, Controller, or Storage failures
Traditional Backup FalconStor CDP
Cannot Need spare parts.

restore Waiting for
storage HW repair.
Restoring the data.
Storage Crash (Lengthy Downtime!) 11:00
Ethernet
iSCSI or Fibre
FC or
Ethernet Select the instant access
snapshot disk
F
Backup server
11:00 10:0011:00
One Month Backup
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
F I I I I I I
F I I I I I I
F I I I I I I
F I I I I I I
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Recovery 5: Any to Any Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery in 30 Minutes
• Much faster recovery time than tape-based DR
• MicroScan technology saves bandwidth and makes DR feasible
• DR rehearsal at any time Remote Site
Disk Replica
Replica Snapshot
Branch Office
Local Site Repl1 Repl2
Disk
mirroring Snapshot
P2V/V2V Recovery
10:00 11:00
Site disaster on standby
Virtual machine
Standby
Virtual
Machine Repl2
Delta replication
with MicroScan Virtual
technology Server
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FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (CDP) for Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
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Disaster Recovery
(You mean its possible?)

CDP with Replication
Virtual servers
• Easily configured any-to-any
Linux Unix Windows
remote replication
• MicroScan allows for low
bandwidth Replication
… …
Primary Block-level DR Site
storage data
volumes replication
Microscan J
CDP
J
Journal
7a.m. 8 a.m.
7a.m. 8 a.m. 9 a.m.

Full replicas
CDP SAN plus snapshots
mirrors
Serverless copy to tape
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Cross DR with Replication
Virtual servers
• Replication can be cross-site
Linux Unix Windows
• Each site can be DR of other
• Tapes can be exported at DR
instead of Production site
… …
Primary Block-level DR Site
storage data
volumes replication
Microscan J
CDP
J
Journal
7a.m. 8 a.m.
7a.m. 8 a.m. 9 a.m.

Full replicas
CDP SAN plus snapshots
mirrors
Serverless copy to tape
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CDP In Tech Talk

FalconStor’s Technologies
Application Servers Backup/Archiving Servers

MS Exchange, MS SQL, Oracle, MS SharePoint, NetBackup, Tivoli, EMC/Legato, Commvault, Arkivo, CA,
Sybase, DB2, Informix, VMware, SAP, etc HP Data Protector, Oracle Backup, etc.
Network Storage Server Continuous Data Protector File Deduplication System Virtual Tape Library
Virtualization & Mobility Disk-based data protection File-interface dedupe & archiving Disk library with dedupe
ABSTRACTION LAYER
IPStor Platform
Virtualization, Thin Provisioning, Replication, Encryption, Snapshot, Security
Industry Disk Arrays and Tape Libraries

EMC, HP, Sun/StorageTek, Hitachi, IBM, NetApp, 3Par, etc.
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CDP Main Components
CDP Storage Server (IPStor Server)

• Provide the FC/iSCSI mirror storage to the clients and delivers the storage services like snapshot, replication, CDP
journal etc. It could be configured as stand-alone or HA (2 failover pair).
• Gateways • Appliances
CDP Gateway Appliance CDP Appliance + Internal Storage
Model for external storage Model with internal storage
SAN Clients (Agent Software) IPStor Console

• The agent software (DiskSafe, LVM) used to protect the disk • The webstart GUI used to create, configure, manage and
resources of the application servers monitor the storage resources and services on the IPStor
• Snapshot Agent support different OS: Windows, Linux, Solaris, storage network.
AIX… and different application: Oracle, SQL…
• Support FC and iSCSI protocols
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The Protection

Simplify Server Protection
FalconStor DiskSafe
Application Server
DiskSafe +
OS Snapshot Agent
IP/FC
Application DiskSafe
Bootable
Data/DB/Logs
Continuous/Periodic Mirror Disk
mirroring of changed blocks
• DiskSafe: Host-based mirroring software 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00

• Less than 5% CPU utilization
• Continuous or periodic data mirroring 255 snapshot
• Manage protection from DiskSafe GUI on application instant access
server or from CDP console recovery points
per volume
• Group Protection to guarantee the writing sequence on
the protected disks in continuous mode and control the
database/log consistency in the snapshot.
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Protect the Windows Host using DiskSafe
Introduction
DiskSafe provides reliable data

protection and rapid data recovery
in the event of a system crash or
disk failure.
DiskSafe protects Windows
application servers, desktops and
laptops by copying their local disks
or partitions to a mirror – another
local disk or a remote virtual disk
managed by a storage server
application such as IPStor, iSCSI
Storage Server.
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Main New Features and Updates in v3.6X
Support the Disk Encryption in the DiskSafe protection
Enhance the Restoration Wizard, support restore the disk or file/folder. In

the restoration, DiskSafe will scan the U-map and delta data between the
mirror disk with source disk.
Support new WinPE based Recovery CD.
New DiskSafe Clustering feature support N-nodes Cluster environment. It

is much easier to configure the protection policy.
Added support for Thin Provisioning to be used with IPStor 6.X
LUN Group Management is simplified
Simplified DiskSafe on Windows Clusters configuration
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Key Features
Real-time & block level mirroring of disks and partitions in

Continuous / Periodic mode.
Access to multiple point-in-time image
Data integrity via snapshot agents
Performance optimization for the environment
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Synchronization in Details - Continuous mode
Continuous Mode Characteristics:

Ensures that the mirror always have
the most up-to-date information.
DiskSafe
Syncs up primary disk to remote disk
each time there is a block updated.
If the mirror disk write speed is much
slower than protected disk, DiskSafe
won’t wait for mirror disk response,
and instead will continue writing data
to primary disk. At that time, the
continuous synchronization will be
temporarily interrupted.
Protected Disk or Mirror Disk (Local or
Partition Remote)
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Synchronization in Details - Periodic mode
Periodic Mode Characteristics:

Copies changed data to the mirror
with the least impact on the network DiskSafe
Provides a built-in delay to avoid data

corruption on the mirror.
Replicate marked changed data to
mirror disk. Mirror Disk
(Local or Remote)
Schedule
Protected Disk Time
or Partition
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Consistency Group
DiskSafe
Group
SNAP!
SYNC!
Creating consistency group in DiskSafe allows you to link individual disks

or partitions together for synchronization and snapshot, whose action
will be executed at the same time.
All configuration settings that you specify for the group override the
settings previously specified for the individual members of that group.
However, each individual member retains its own synchronization
optimization settings.
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Disaster Recovery
(More Money, Less Work!)

The Art of Disaster Recovery
There are two types of DR Exercises
DR Drills
• Pure Simulated Disaster Recovery
• Bring up Servers at DR without Impact to Production
• Replication from Production to DR is ongoing
DR Exercise
• Simulated Disaster Recovery
• Similar to actions taken in Real Disaster
• DR Servers become Production Servers
• Production & DR CDP Servers switch roles
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The Art of Disaster Recovery
Recap – DR Drill is not DR Exercise
DR Drills
• Pure Simulated Disaster Recovery
• Bring up Servers at DR without Impact to Production
• Replication from Production to DR is ongoing
The Technology
• Uses Snapshot Copy (TimeView)
• Test, Verify, Go Home
• Production is running. No impact to SLA
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DR Drills
Standby
Server
1100 1200 1300
1100 1200 1300
• DR Drills can be easily done using snapshots (TimeViews) replicated across

• Snapshots can be presented across to standby servers for DR Drills or
testing purposes
• No need to stop protection at production or to halt replication during DR
Drills
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DR Exercises / Real DR
Standby
Server
1100 1200 1300
1100 1200 1300
• Standby servers use replicas (mirror disk) after promotion directly as SAN
(iSCSI or FC) disks
• All new data written directly to replicas
• Snapshots can continue to be taken to further protect against data
corruption
• Standby servers do not require DiskSafe but require snapshot agent
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Data Failback
DC
Standby
Server
1100 1200 1300
1100 1200 1300
• Once CDP Server is ready at the DC, replication can be performed from
DRC back to DC
• Time taken to perform replication will depend on the amount of data and
can be done locally at DRC first
• During replication, new data can continue to be written into replica
without interruption
• Service outage will be required to replicate last changes to DC before
failback
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Final Production Server Recovery
DB Server
OS/App (C:)
New blank 13:00 12:00 11:00
DB (D:)
disk
New blank 13:00 12:00 11:00
Logs (E:)
disk
DB (D:) 13:00 12:00 11:00
Logs (E:)
• Mirror disks recreated after replication contains latest data

• Used temporarily as SAN disks (iSCSI or FC) to resume services quickly
• Physical storage is rebuilt in the background while services are running
• Once completed, one final service outage can be scheduled to use
physical disks for production
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Bandwidth Calc
(Save money for Customer,
more money for YOU!)

Bandwidth Calculations
• There is no minimal bandwidth required to start

replication
• However, in low bandwidth conditions, meeting
defined RPO might be difficult
• To determine suitable bandwidth:
– Determine RPO requirements
– Determine delta to be replicated across per day
– Obtain approximate daily changes
• Factor in line efficiency
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Example for Bandwidth Estimation
• RPO: 24 hours
• Delta per day: 20 GB (~160000 Mb)
• Estimated Microscan savings: 50% (~80000 Mb)
• Total after Microscan: ~80000 Mb
• Bandwidth required:
80000 Mb / 86400 seconds = ~ 1 Mbps
Note the differences between Megabyte and Megabit
• Actual available bandwidth / line efficiency:
70% (~0.7 Mbps) = Up to 60480 Mb per day
• Best line:
~1.5 Mbps and above
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The Everyday

© FalconStor Software 2007 · All Rights Reserved

Source: Ontrack Data

• More than 95% of data loss happens at the local site

• Backup Software agents have significant impact on Host

Backup Agent uses host CPU to read

© FalconStor Software 2007 · All Rights Reserved

Continuous Data Protector (CDP)

• Unified solution for Backup & Disaster Recovery

• Provides TOTALLY Open™ disk-based data protection

© FalconStor Software 2007 · All Rights Reserved

verification and restore

Server Recovery from storage and Multiple recovery

Tape Library Backup Server WAN

255 Bootable Snapshot

Serverless tape vault backup/recovery

The Power of Disk Any server

SAN (FC, iSCSI) No need to transfer data

• Unlike Backup Software agents, FalconStor Agents do not

Continuous backup eliminates backup window

Instant access replaces data restore

Policy based protection, setup and forget

Instant backup validation w/100% recovery

255 snapshot recovery points w/o media mgnt

10 minutes local recovery for any hw/sw errors

85% media saving (Reduce backup job from 365 to 52 )

© FalconStor Software 2007 · All Rights Reserved

• Legal Services firm benchmark

Sending Changed Sectors

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OS/App 13:00 12:00 11:00

• Recovery CD used to rebuild physical disk from a selected snapshot

Need spare parts.

Message Recovery for

Cannot Need spare parts.

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7a.m. 8 a.m. 9 a.m.

7a.m. 8 a.m. 9 a.m.

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Application Servers Backup/Archiving Servers

Industry Disk Arrays and Tape Libraries

CDP Storage Server (IPStor Server)

SAN Clients (Agent Software) IPStor Console

© FalconStor Software 2007 · All Rights Reserved

• DiskSafe: Host-based mirroring software 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00

DiskSafe provides reliable data

Support the Disk Encryption in the DiskSafe protection

Enhance the Restoration Wizard, support restore the disk or file/folder. In

New DiskSafe Clustering feature support N-nodes Cluster environment. It

LUN Group Management is simplified

Simplified DiskSafe on Windows Clusters configuration

Real-time & block level mirroring of disks and partitions in

Access to multiple point-in-time image

Data integrity via snapshot agents

Performance optimization for the environment

Continuous Mode Characteristics:

Periodic Mode Characteristics:

Provides a built-in delay to avoid data

Creating consistency group in DiskSafe allows you to link individual disks

© FalconStor Software 2007 · All Rights Reserved

1100 1200 1300

1100 1200 1300