Simple Failover - Knowledge Base

Daily operations

• How to backup and restore settings and data? (Simple Failover v. 2.0 and later)
• How to backup and restore settings and data? (Simple Failover v. 1.x)

DNS caching

• Will DNS caching not cause web-site visitors to reach the wrong (failed) web-server, even after Simple Failover has updated the DNS records?

Features and functions

• Can I not achieve the same result just using DNS round robin?

Simple Failover v. 1.x

• Problems updating Microsoft DNS server via WMI
• Tray icon missing / cannot access Simple Failover UI through Remote Desktop / RDP

Simple Failover v. 2.0

• New in Simple Failover v. 2.0
• Retired features and breaking changes in Simple Failover v. 2.0

Usage requirements

• What are the system requirements for Simple Failover?

Support

• Licensing FAQ