Stronger Business Continuity
with FileMaker Server 2026:
Remote Backup, Standby Server,
and Lesterius Hosting
Unexpected downtime is something no business wants to experience. Whether it's a hardware failure, network outage, cyber incident, or simple human error, losing access to your business-critical FileMaker solution can have serious consequences. Every minute of downtime can mean lost productivity, disrupted operations, and reduced customer confidence.
With FileMaker Server 2026, Claris has taken a major step forward in helping organizations protect their applications and data. Two new optional services, Remote Backup and Standby Server, make it easier than ever to build a reliable business continuity and disaster recovery strategy.
Business continuity built into FileMaker
Until now, implementing a disaster recovery solution for FileMaker often required custom infrastructure, third-party tools, and extensive technical expertise. FileMaker Server 2026 simplifies this process by providing built-in services designed specifically for FileMaker environments. The result is a solution that's easier to deploy, easier to manage, and designed to minimize both downtime and data loss.
Remote Backup: Automated offsite protection
Backups are only valuable if they're available when you need them.
The new Remote Backup service automatically creates encrypted offsite backups of your FileMaker databases every 20 minutes. These backups are securely stored in Apple-managed cloud infrastructure, removing the need for manual backup processes or maintaining separate offsite storage.
If your primary server is damaged, compromised, or unavailable, your data remains protected and ready for recovery.
Key benefits include:
Automated encrypted backups every 20 minutes
Secure offsite storage managed by Apple
No manual backup administration
Faster recovery after unexpected events
Standby Server: Minimize downtime
Protecting your data is only part of the equation. Keeping your applications available is equally important.
The new Standby Server service continuously synchronizes a secondary FileMaker Server with your production server. If the primary server experiences an outage, you can quickly switch users to the standby environment, significantly reducing downtime and allowing business operations to continue with minimal interruption.
Instead of rebuilding servers or restoring large backups under pressure, you have a synchronized environment ready to take over when needed.
The complete disaster recovery solution
When combined, Remote Backup and Standby Server provide a comprehensive business continuity strategy.
Standby Server minimizes downtime by providing rapid failover.
Remote Backup protects against data loss with frequent encrypted offsite backups.
Together, they help organizations achieve both operational continuity and reliable disaster recovery without the complexity traditionally associated with high-availability environments.
Lesterius can host your Standby Server
While Claris provides the technology, organizations still need reliable infrastructure to run their standby environment. That’s where Lesterius can help.
Lesterius can provide and manage the infrastructure required for your Standby Server, allowing you to benefit from high availability without investing in additional on-premises hardware or maintaining a second server yourself.
To maximize resilience, your Standby Server will be hosted in a different data center from your production and development environments. This geographic separation helps protect your FileMaker solution against data center-specific incidents while maintaining the same high standards of security, reliability, and performance that you expect from Lesterius' hosting services.
Our team ensures that your standby environment is properly configured, monitored, and ready whenever it's needed, so your disaster recovery plan is not only implemented but also maintained by experienced FileMaker specialists.
Whether you're already hosting your FileMaker environment with Lesterius or looking to strengthen your existing deployment, we can help you design a business continuity solution that fits your organization's needs.
Be prepared before downtime happens
Disaster recovery isn't something you want to think about during an outage.
With FileMaker Server 2026, Claris has made enterprise-grade business continuity significantly more accessible through Remote Backup and Standby Server. Combined with Lesterius' managed hosting services for Standby Server, organizations can implement a robust, reliable, and easy-to-manage disaster recovery solution that keeps their FileMaker applications available when they matter most.
If you'd like to learn how Standby Server hosting can fit into your FileMaker environment, the Lesterius team is ready to help you build a resilient solution that keeps your business running, even when the unexpected happens.