Teach me about Disaster Recovery Software
- July 26, 2010
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Backup and Disaster Recovery Software
The goal of any disaster recovery contingency plan is to get a organization back up as quickly as possible. Critical to any plan should be disaster recovery software. It can help get your critical business data back up and running very fast – which can be key to getting your system moving after a disaster.
Disaster recovery software allows you not only to restore the data on the server, but also the server operating system and applications as well. You don’t waste precious time loading each application individually – it’s all restored at the same time.
Here’s how disaster recovery software works. Throughout the day, the software takes “snapshots” or copies of a specific moment in time for your server. If you’ve set up the software to take a snapshot every hour, it will get a copy of everything that’s on the server at 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, and so on. The information is saved to another location, such as a hard disk that you use for all of your backups.
If your server crashes at 2:15, all you have to do is restore the server to the 2:00 snapshot. At disk speeds, you can restore a multi-TB server in a couple of hours, rather than a couple of days, because you don’t have to load the operating system, then load the applications, and then load the data. It’s all right there in the snapshot.
There are several different kinds of disaster recovery software you can choose from. Make sure you find one that is reliable and can get your server systems back up and running faxt. Many computer users make use of StorageCraft ShadowProtect Server as their Disaster recovery software. It’s a reliable backup and disaster recovery software that’s simple and very reliable. In fact, the technology within ShadowProtect Server has already been installed on millions of systems globally.
If you don’t have a lot of time to spend learning about software and you absolutely need to find a way to make sure your business can keep going after a disastrous system failure, make sure your contingency DR plan includes solid, reliable disaster recovery software like ShadowProtect.