Product Overview

Simply put, the Last Minutes® product has been developed to provide a comprehensive, robust, and cost effective service to secure transactions as they occur. Using a process for capturing and transmitting journals to an offsite server, is able to provide the ability to restore a system to a selected point in time, which typically would be slightly before a systems failure occurred.

Last Minutes® provides:

• A comprehensive, robust and cost effective way of securing transactions
• The ability to retrieve individual files for debug purposes
• The ability to remove the nightly "backup window" by using "save and active" backups
  The ability to save spool files
• The ability to know the jobs that were running at the time of the failure

The way it works - Last Minutes® stores all changes to your database on a owned and housed iSeries server. When a recovery is required, the saved changes can be reapplied to restore the system from the last backup to a point close to (within minutes) of when the failure occurred.

The Most Significant Benefit of Last Minutes® is as an Insurance Policy

Many transactions for organisations are entered directly into a computer system, more typically through the internet, or Customer Service Centre. In most of these cases there is no source documentation and, as such, no paper trail that can be recreated to allow the transactions to be re-entered should a systems failure occur. Last Minutes® provides the surety of keeping those transactions, and the business/revenues that they represent.

The other benefit Last Minutes® clients have found is in a situation where a Systems Administrator makes an error within the system, causing it to fail or data to be deleted and lost. In many cases this situation would be impossible to recover from. The organisation would again need to rely on backups, and accept the loss of substantial valuable transactions.

In summary, Last Minutes® provides the ability for an organisation to withstand a systems crash requiring a complete system rebuild, without losing transactional data.