Milestone Redundancy and High Availability
The simplest high availability cluster with real-time replication and failover without shared disk
Updated on Saturday, August 16, 2025
Evidian SafeKit is a software solution that provides replication and failover to Milestone XProtect Management Server in 30+ countries. This platform agnostic and easy-to-use product can be applied for redundancy and high availability of other applications deployed with Milestone on Windows or Linux
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From Evidian
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SafeKit high availability software
From Milestone Systems
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Milestone XProtect
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Overview
Milestone Redundancy and High Availability - The simplest high availability cluster with real-time replication and failover without shared disk
Evidian SafeKit allows you to quickly set up a Milestone cluster with real-time file replication and automatic failover of the management services and the SQL database. The product is simple and avoids complexity of other failover clusters: no need for shared storage, domain controller configuration or SQL enterprise edition. A free trial of SafeKit is offered to implement the solution in less than 1 hour.Note that SafeKit is a generic product on Windows and Linux.
You can implement with the same product real-time replication and failover of other databases and applications, full Hyper-V or KVM virtual machines, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud applications.
This platform agnostic solution is ideal for a partner with a critical application and who wants to provide a high availability option easy to deploy to many customers.
Key features
- Redundancy with automatic failover on a secondary server.
- Replicates in real-time any folder containing any type of data (database, full virtual machine...).
- Cluster with no need for shared disk, no need fo database or OS enterprise editions and no need for specific skills.
- Works with Windows for server and PC, with Linux, with physical or virtual machines.
- Possibility to replicate full Hyper-V or KVM virtual machines which can contain Milestone XProtect and other applications.
How it works
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Discover Evidian SafeKit: a 100% software high availability solution for Windows and Linux, with no shared disks or complex setup. Includes demo, use cases, and key advantages.
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Learn how to integrate SafeKit as an OEM to offer high availability for your application. Includes a Milestone XProtect example, failover demo, and how to add HA to your product catalog.
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Discover another solution that requires no knowledge of the application to restart and that is based on real-time replication and automatic restarts of complete virtual machines under Hyper-V.
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Get trained on SafeKit for free and earn product certifications at no cost.
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How to install
Documentation
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| Evidian SafeKit Installation Guide | pdf Download (3.81 MB) |
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Specification
Required Evidian product(s)
SafeKit 8
Has proven compatibility with the following Milestone versions:
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XProtectCorporate2025 R2, 06/10 2025
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XProtectExpert2025 R2, 06/10 2025
Is also expected to work with:
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XProtectCorporate2022 R1, 03/08 2022 and later
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XProtectExpert2022 R1, 03/08 2022 and later
Country availability
Your location is: United States
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AFRICA
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Congo
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guadeloupe
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mayotte
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Reunion
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- South Africa
- St Helena
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Western Sahara
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
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ANTARCTICA
- Antarctica
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ASIA PACIFIC
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- China
- Cyprus
- Fiji
- French Southern Territories
- Heard and McDonald Islands
- Hong Kong
- India
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Macao
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Marshall Islands
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Palestine, State of
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Republic Of Korea
- Samoa
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Tonga
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
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EUROPE
- Aland Islands
- Albania
- Andorra
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belgium
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Faroe Islands
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Gibraltar
- Greece
- Guernsey
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Isle Of Man
- Israel
- Italy
- Jersey
- Kosovo
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- Netherlands Antilles
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Svalbard And Jan Mayen
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
- Turkiye
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- Vatican City
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NORTH AMERICA
- Bermuda
- Canada
- Costa Rica
- Dominican Republic
- Greenland
- Mexico
- St Maarten
- St Pierre Et Miquelon
- United States
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OCEANIA
- American Samoa
- Australia
- Christmas Island
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Cook Islands
- Federated States Of Micronesia
- French Polynesia
- Guam
- Kiribati
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Niue
- Norfolk Island
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Pitcairn Islands
- Puerto Rico
- Tokelau
- United States Minor Outlying Islands
- Wake Island
- Wallis and Fortuna Islands
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SOUTH AMERICA
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Aruba
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
- Bouvet Island
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Chile
- Colombia
- Curacao
- Dominica
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Falkland Islands
- French Guiana
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Martinique
- Montserrat
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Saint Barthelemy
- Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
- South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands
- St Kitts-Nevis
- St Lucia
- St Martin
- Suriname
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United States Virgin Islands
- Uruguay
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