Rollforward Recovery Logging

A system failure can result in loss of data in either of the following circumstances:

• The Fileshare Server's cache or operating system's cache is not written to disk
• The system failed while updating a file. In this case, the integrity of the files cannot be guaranteed

Rollforward recovery logging is the method used by Fileshare to store all the updates made to your data files in one or more log files. If your system fails, resulting in loss of data, the Rollforward Recovery Utility together with the log file(s) can be used to re-apply the updates to a back-up copy of the original data files. When the recovery is complete, the files contain the data they contained at the time of the system failure (with any outstanding transactions rolled back).

You do not need to make any changes to the Fileshare Client in order to use rollforward recovery logging.