In a world where production teams depend on seamless collaboration and real-time media access, downtime isn’t just inconvenient; it’s costly. A single outage caused by a storm, flood, or power failure can grind production to a halt, delay delivery timelines, and jeopardize valuable client relationships.
That’s why EditShare’s FLOW Disaster Recovery system exists: a feature that mirrors your primary FLOW site and allows you to get back online fast. Within minutes, not hours or days.
It’s not an archive or long-term storage system; it’s a real-time continuity solution designed to keep your creative teams working when disaster strikes.
Why Disaster Recovery Matters for Media and Production Teams
Video production workflows are complex. They depend on shared storage, media asset management systems, and hundreds of interconnected files. When disaster hits, whether physical damage to a facility, network failure, or regional outage, teams risk losing access to projects, metadata, and proxy media.
Without a disaster recovery strategy, you face:
- Extended downtime during which editing and collaboration stop completely.
- Lost or corrupted assets that disrupt version control and delivery schedules.
- Damaged client trust due to missed deadlines and incomplete recoveries.
With FLOW Disaster Recovery, your team gains peace of mind knowing your entire production environment is mirrored and ready to take over at a moment’s notice.
What Makes FLOW Disaster Recovery Different
Unlike traditional data backups or archives that only store static copies of your files, FLOW Disaster Recovery maintains a fully synchronized, live replica of your FLOW system, including Media Spaces, proxies, thumbnails, transcriptions and the database.
If a natural disaster, power outage, or hardware failure takes your main system offline, the secondary FLOW environment can be activated swiftly. Within minutes your team can reconnect and resume editing, reviewing, and managing assets from wherever they are.
This isn’t a “cold” backup. It’s an emergency retrieval that ensures business continuity for media production without data loss or workflow disruption.
FLOW Disaster Recovery vs. Traditional Backups
| Feature / Capability | Traditional Backup / Archive | FLOW Disaster Recovery |
| System Sync | Manual, periodic | Automatic synchronization |
| Switch-over Speed | Days or weeks | Up and running within minutes |
| Workflow Continuity | Only partially restore data | Full FLOW system restoration including metadata, projects, and settings |
| Access During Outage | None | Seamless access to mirrored environment |
| Purpose | Long-term data retention | Operational continuity during disaster |
Key Benefits of FLOW Disaster Recovery
- Rapid Recovery: Get your production system live again immediately after a critical outage.
- Seamless Continuity: Maintain access to media, metadata, and ongoing projects through your mirrored FLOW instance.
- Full System Sync: Your secondary system stays automatically aligned up to 24 hours of your primary system—no manual updates needed.
- Minimal Downtime: Protect tight production schedules and delivery deadlines from unexpected events.
- Peace of Mind: Know your video production workflow is protected, no matter what happens on-site.
FLOW Disaster Recovery Fits into Your Media Management Workflow
FLOW Disaster Recovery integrates directly with your existing EditShare EFS and FLOW infrastructure, ensuring that your media management workflow remains stable, organized, and secure.
FAQ: FLOW Disaster Recovery
No. A backup stores static copies of data, while FLOW Disaster Recovery maintains a live, synchronized system that can take over operations immediately. Delete an asset from the primary Site, the delete will also occur on the secondary site after the daily sync of both sites.
Most teams are fully operational within minutes, depending on network conditions and access permissions.
Yes, the disaster recovery configuration includes synchronization between your primary and secondary EFS and FLOW environments, ensuring media, metadata, and settings remain aligned.
Yes. The system is designed to be accessed securely from anywhere, supporting remote production continuity.
FLOW Disaster Recovery uses daily automatic replication to update your secondary system, ensuring it mirrors the current state of your production environment to within 24 hours.
Stay Operational. Stay Confident.
When disaster strikes, every minute matters. FLOW Disaster Recovery ensures your media production and post workflows keep moving—securely, efficiently, and without compromise.
Because in creative production, downtime isn’t an option.
Disaster Recovery will be available in 2026.1.0.
Learn more about FLOW and how it can protect your production workflows.
