• An Administration Console
  The administrator from a Windows workstation uses this interface to define the backup, replication, recovery, and mirror policies, control all the clients in the network, review log files, generate detailed reports and more.
• Client agent software
  The client agent software should be installed on each Server and PC station in your network that requires a backup and data recovery mechanism. This software executes the policies as defined by the administrator and once configured perform automatically all real-time backup and recovery functions providing status and control information as well as an audit trail back to the administrator.
• Server
  The Miramar real-time replication server can be safely placed behind a firewall anywhere in the LAN and provides the mechanism that manages the information exchanged between Miramar client agents. Our server boasts a very small footprint and supports intranet and extranet communication. The reach of the network can be restricted to a LAN, specific IP addresses or IP ranges.

Miramar real-time replication operates with policy-based automation rules to define backup and disaster recovery plans. Greater data protection can be achieved by combining the following methods:

• Replication
  Using a Replication method a file is copied from a predefined source to one or more destinations or target machines. The replication method is controlled by a set of rules that determine the manner to handle all objects such as files and directories. An object can be replicated automatically as it becomes created when selecting replication or mirroring or backed up at a given point in time using a schedule.
• File synchronization
  Using a synchronization method a backup to a file is propagated through the entire network. This represents an efficient way to share a file on a global basis.

• Filter out certain file types
• Include certain file types
• Set up the method
• Set up the frequency
• Specify the data retention time

• Locally to a drive attached to the host: (DAS: Direct Attached Storage)
• On a server attached to a LAN (NAS: Network Attached Storage)
• On a remote machine connected to the Internet (WAS: Web Attached Storage)

The Miramar solution provides fast, transparent backup of all data and capture changes in real-time by any application to any file. Since Miramar can intercept any save activity by any application we can provide replication to open files as they become modified and limit the data transfer to small blocks of data.

To reduce the impact of the backup on the network all small incremental data blocks are first compressed prior to initiating the data transfer. For additional security Miramar uses the TCP/IP protocol with encrypted data transfers using SSL.

When setting a new rule for certain file types the software will automatically create a remote copy the first time so that the synchronization process can start. The administrator should carefully filter the file types when setting the backup-replication policies in order to save time, space and minimize the network load. Optionally a clean up mechanism will identify duplicate files within a tree and gives a selectable option for deletion or moving to a duplicate directory for further inspection. The scanning will be performed on a client machine and identify only non-system files.

Recovering data needs to be manually started by the administrator by initiating policy-based rules created automatically by the software or by creating specific synchronization commands to get the data back from a storage location.

This method provides a way to synchronize files, directories and volumes at programmable intervals or specific dates. The automation rules for Miramar are very flexible and offer a time resolution up to a minute. Time intervals can be specified for every object independently, and all backup operations can be applied at the same time. This allows the software to backup individual files, directories and volumes to various locations simultaneously and at the same time.

The backup mode contains smart error control mechanisms that will identify and log uncompleted transactions if a destination location is not available during the schedule slice. The backup will resume all operations previously unavailable during the next programmed interval. For further control a notification can be sent to the administrator to indicate when some operations did not complete successfully.

Schedules can be defined with great flexibility and allows to backup objects as follows:

• Synchronize now - do task now.
• Calendar Scheduling - do task at specified date, or at specified time or at specified schedule (every Friday or every two hours and so on:)
• Upon Startup

Bi-directional scheduled synchronization.	The destination and source folders will both store only the more recent files.
One-direction scheduled backup.	Differing Master Copy	Copies files from source to destination if files in the source are different than files in destination. Difference can be user defined with attributes such as size, date and time
	Forced Master Copy	copies all files from source to destination
	Recent Master Copy	copies files from source to destination if files in the source are more recent than files in destination