Bounce Back from the Unexpected

Unplanned downtime can cost you and your customers millions of dollars in lost revenue and lost productivity, not to mention the impact to your company’s reputation. Fortunately, Synergex offers a number of solutions that enable you to minimize downtime for your Synergy applications. 

Check out our documentation

Redundancy is key to preventing data loss and ensuring application resiliency. You have a variety of options for eliminating single points of failure in your system, and several choices to make concerning the level of redundancy your backup configuration should achieve. The Configuring for Performance and Resiliency section of our Configuration Guide discusses the factors you may want to consider as you develop your backup strategy, including SAN and virtual machine recommendations.

Watch this introduction to synbackup

This “Quick Tips” video is a high-level introduction to synbackup: a utility you can use to prevent synchronization errors within your ISAM files. In addition to an overview of synbackup and how it keeps your index files and data files nicely aligned, you’ll learn about the three main implementation options described in our documentation, and where to go to find more information about the utility.

Watch this conference presentation

In this session from our Synergy DevPartner Conference 2018, Phillip Bratt covers ten Synergy tricks and technologies to help you improve performance and keep your customers’ data secure. Topics include tools involved in backups, data snapshots, and performance measurement.

Read this technical article

In 2020, we came up with a new design for isutl – a utility used to perform maintenance on ISAM files. Isutl is used with several options meant for tasks such as recovering corrupt files and verifying the integrity of files. This article discusses the benefits of the isutl revamp.