St Bernard Software Open File Manager

Why an Open File Solution is Important

The landscape for data storage has changed drastically in the last few years. The quantities of mission-critical data that companies are storing, managing and maintaining is growing exponentially. At the same time, demand for 24/7 application availability is now the norm. In the past, IT administrators would typically do backups during off-hours, when they could be assured the network would be inactive. Now networks must be available at all times, increasing the possibility for errors due to missed open and in-use files.

Solutions such as forcing the closure of open files or barring access to applications during backups are no longer feasible. Even if your backup program tries to access skipped files again at the end of a backup, if the files are still open, they will be ignored and critical data will be missed. And when your backup program does manage to backup previously open files at the end, any files it backs up are vulnerable to synchronization problems and the relational integrity of your data is compromised.

St. Bernard to the Rescue
Open File Manager is enterprise-class software that enables your backup application to also back up open and in-use files, ensuring business continuity and protection of mission-critical data. It is a reliable, easy-to-use, disk-level open file solution that is cost-effective and scalable from workstations to servers. And Open File Manager consistently captures open and in-use files and relational applications, even if they are changing during the backup – all without locking users out of applications or forcing them to log off the network.

In addition, Open File Manager supports coherent backup of corporate data while it remains in use and serves system administrators in their most critical mission – assuring secure, efficient, round-the-clock operation of their corporate infrastructure. With Open File Manager working alongside a company’s backup software, popular databases, applications and servers like Oracle SQL Server, Exchange Server and Lotus Notes can be in use and running while backup occurs. Because backups can be run at any time without the risk of skipped or corrupt files, the need for a specific "backup window" has now been “closed.”

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