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Introduction

IT disruptions can occur for many reasons, including human error, weather, or a cyber attack. Enterprises need to have a solution in place that will get them up and running quickly with minimal downtime. When orchestrating disaster recovery at scale, it is important to automate recovery plans as much as possible. This allows for a faster recovery time objective (RTO) and also creates a repeatable, auditable process that can be documented and maintained.

EaseFilter Cloud DR Solution

EaseFilter Cloud File System is a cloud-enabled virtual file system, which can integrate your cloud storage into the local on-premises storage automatically, let you have the unlimited storage space with low cost,  help your organization maximize the capital and operational cost savings from cloud storage. It allows you to implement the cloud disaster recovery (Cloud DR) solution, to seamlessly integrate your existing applications to the cloud environment without affecting the original data and programs, without any modification of your existing applications. It can help the small to medium size companies to implement the Cloud DR with the lowest cost and minimal disruption to normal operation.

EaseFilter Cloud File DR Solution delivers a fully functional virtual infrastructure ready to take over an outage disrupt primary services. The virtual file is stored in an offsite public cloud where it remains in standby ready for failover. Data synchronization operates in the background to keep data up-to-date. The entire system can be spun up in minutes, saving the organization from costly service interruption.

Cloud File DR is a hot standby DR solution, it offers the fastest restore as data and applications are maintained offsite on running systems. This enables continuous application availability within seconds of an interruption at the primary site. So the RTO with EaseFilter Cloud File DR is zero, no downtime. With the continue data protection feature, the changed data can be synchronized to the cloud immediately, RPO will be really depends on your bandwidth to the cloud providers.

AWS S3 Cloud DR Demo

EaseFilter Cloud DR provides user a complete, rapid, reliable and economical cloud disaster recovery solution.  By connecting with AWS S3, you can get the tremendous advantages in terms of elasticity, agility, scalable capacity and utility pricing, your company can scale up its infrastructure on an as-needed, pay-as-you-go basis, you can get access to the same highly secure, reliable, and fast infrastructure provided by AWS. In the event of a disaster, you can quickly launch resources to ensure your business continuity. You can leverage for your disaster recovery (DR) processes to significantly minimize the impact on your data, your system, and your overall business operations.

How to integrate the AWS S3 files into the local folder

EaseFilter Cloud File System can integrate the AWS S3 into the local file system transparently. To connect with AWS S3, first you need to setup the S3 connection settings as below. To test the S3 connection, you need to have an S3 account with the access key, then you can create a test bucket from Amazon S3 console.

After AWS S3 connected, you can start the service,  then the AWS S3 files were mapped to the folder “c:CloudFile”. Now you can go to the folder and browse it, you will see the cloud files as below:

The AWS S3 cloud files in folder c:cloudfile are virtual files.  Users can create, delete, modify, read, and write these cloud files as regular physical files, as well as organize them logically in local directory for intuitive access. You can seamlessly integrate your existing applications to AWS S3 environment without affecting the original data and programs, without any modification of your existing applications.