- You have just
entered a lot of information into your computer this
morning. Suddenly, the hard drive crash just before
noon. Your end-of-day daily backup does not help in this case.
You are not alone. This can happen to anyone in your
organization. What to do now?
You can always restore from yesterday’s backup. the
traditional disaster recovery steps list below can
take hours, if not days:
- - Reformat the hard drive. Reinstall Windows XP Pro.
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Look for driver CD or search and download from
vendor's web site.
- Install proper graphic, NIC, audio, and other drivers.
- Install security software, and download upgrades.
- Download and install all Windows XP upgrades and patches.
- Install all application programs such as Office 2003.
- Install backup software.
- Restore data if you can find the latest backed up tape or CD.
- Configure user preferences and all the systems settings
- Call third party service to install & configure custom software.
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Time spent on the above recovery
procedures is very labor intensive and time consuming, and
it is clearly inefficient and unproductive. IT staff already
overloaded with too many duties, the last thing they want to
do is spend a whole day or more trying to recover a PC.
Looking for the right CDs that was shipped with the PC alone can
be frustrated.
Would it be nice to get your system back to normal within
half an hour or less?
There are several solutions that allow you to recover a
system faster, easier, and cost effective - without having
to go through the above labor intensive, time consuming recovery process.
Create a disk image of an entire hard drive not only make
backup easier and faster, but also greatly reduce downtime
due to faster and easier one-step disaster recovery.
Disaster recovery from traditional backup tape can take
several hours or days. It takes only a matter of minutes
with freeStor 4020. Should a PC is
corrupted or compromised by spyware or a virus, user can boot remotely from a clean image saved on the freeStor 4020 and
continue working, or fix the problems quickly and easily with the clean
image from freeStor 4020.
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Do you already have RAID-1 or even RAID-5 protection and
think you are fully protected from disaster?
Think again. Today’s hard
drives are much more reliable than ten years ago. Chance
of a hard drive crash is way below any other software drive related problems such as
corrupted files, accidentally deleted or overwritten
files, spyware or virus inflection, software conflict,
new software, and thief. RAID protection only address
hard drive crash.
In a perfect world, Windows XP would never crash, your
PC wouldn't be inflected by Spyware and Virus, human
error wouldn’t never happen, and there wouldn't be any
need to worry if a recent download has caused
irreversible damage to the integrity of systems.
What about those
mission-critical PC or servers that have to be up 7/24?
Shut down the PC or server to do backup is just not an
option.
The ability to create an exact disk image of your live
workstations for a complete backup, providing the most
comprehensive, up-to-the-minute, and cost-effective data
protection, and fast disaster recovery solution for your
organization.
Since disk image file includes all of the hard drive
data, including the operating system, programs,
databases, configuration files, user preferences,
updates, security patches, and everything else, you can
easily restore the complete PC or server back to a
known, working state, or simply replace lost or
corrupted files or folders quickly to reduce costly
software troubleshooting & virus/spyware attack.
Now you can backup a live PC to freeStor 4020
automatically, and without
interruption to normal operation. You can "Set it and
forget it" to save time and human error. In addition, you can
use freeStor 4020 to help you recover from poorly
performing software, faulty Internet downloads,
corrupted files, Virus or Spyware inflection, hard disk
crash, & deleted or overwritten files by human
errors.
freeStor 4020 offers premium PC protection,
quick and easy
disaster recovery that absolutely no organization with
computers should be without, especially small
organization with limited IT resources and budget. A small price to
pay up front can reduce a lot of hassles and
uncontrollable expense cause by any software and hard drive related
problem.
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