Many of my customers still depend on nightly
backup tape to protect their data. Backup to
and restore from tape is not only
time-consuming, but can be expensive too,
because tape backup requires more attention
and care. Tape often failed too.
Should a server fail, the IT department
would have to rebuild the server from
scratch. Once the OS and applications
software were installed and fully
configured, data files would be brought back
from tape and the server could be running
again. Just finding all of the applications
CD, activation codes, patches and upgrades
alone could take several hours. This
file-base backup and recovery process could
take many hours or days to get a server back
to normal working condition.
What your IT department needs is a simple,
but robust and reliable way to restore a
server to working condition quickly.
Sector-based backup and recovery offers
the answer to reduce system downtime. With
an image of a server's hard disk, now your
IT department can restore a system to a
known, working state quickly, easily,
completely, and efficiently.
O&O DiskImage 2
let you make reliable backups of single volumes
or entire systems without affecting the server
operation or disturbing the user at work.
After the backup, all data and the related
installation, including OS, all application,
system settings, is once again available for
fast recovery, and with no prior installation
required, thanks to the O&O DiskImage BareMetal
Technology. Bring back a crashed server now
takes only minutes, not hours or days.
With the volume of data
increasing each day, backup windows has
became smaller and smaller. It become harder
and harder to find time to do backup. Some
servers or PC have to be up and running
24X7. With O&O Hot Imaging capability,
Backups can be done at any time without
bringing down applications or
inconveniencing users. This features
can be very useful to servers, such as SQL
and Exchange servers, that just can not shut
down to do backup.
The backup image file can
be stored on virtually any storage media,
including DVD, external USB hard drive,
another hard drive on the same system,
another hard drive on the network, and
shared storage such as NAS. This flexibility means you
can avoid costly storage hardware purchase.
Image files can be
encrypted with AES Algorithm that provides
security against unauthorized access to your
image files.
Compression and
encryption grades can be set individually
for each different image. The read-out of
general information regarding images is
still possible, even where the password is
not available.
An image of a
disk can be mounted as a virtual drive so
the files and folders can be accessed. This
enables you to recover files without
restoring the whole disk image. After the
initial complete image is made, subsequent
images contain only the changes and this
saves time when backing up. An image can be
restored to a new hard disk or the same one
and a disk can be cloned exactly. This is
useful when you upgrade the hard disk, and
it enables you to replace the current one
with a new one with larger capacity. And a boot CD enables
you to restore when Windows won’t start.
O&O DiskImage offers
simple, yet powerful tool for fast backup and
recovery.
