Moonwalk, the Australian developer of all-inclusive data management and protection software, introduced <A HREF="http://www.moonwalkinc.com/">new disaster recovery features for its Moonwalk 6.0 software suite.</A> Moonwalk software now delivers automated disaster recovery for migrated files in the event of a critical loss on primary storage.

Moonwalk's extremely small-footprint agents create a "stub" for each file. The stub and the migrated file have a unique relationship contained in the metadata, including age, size, location, file type, file name, file creator and even more granular classification criteria. When stubs are lost due to a failure in a server and/or primary storage, Moonwalk software reviews these metadata from the previously migrated set, and restores the stubs to a location according to the direction of the systems administrator. Moonwalks DR tools not only maintain the continuity and integrity of the migrated environment across the enterprise, but also as an extension, allow the user to rebuild or repurpose their front end or their back end if they are replacing outdated servers or storage.