Server Backup and DR

Setting Up Your Server Backup

Submitted by StorageCraft on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 23:00

We get a lot of requests for best practices and recommendations for ways to set up your server environment. ShadowProtect makes it pretty easy to backup everything on your Windows servers, but there are ways to set things up so that you're maximizing your resources and your business continuity.

So one of our technical engineers has put together a great guide that outlines some ways to configure your servers and keep them up and running. It involves backing up each Windows server with  ShadowProtect Server (or ShadowProtect Small Business Server) and running ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise on your critical servers so they're backed up onsite and offsite. This way, when there's a business disruption -- from a server crash to a category 5 hurricane -- you can restore your servers, recover your data, and get your business running again.

Ways to Use ShadowProtect Server

Submitted by StorageCraft on Tue, 08/10/2010 - 13:39

ShadowProtect Server and ShadowProtect Small Business Server have a lot of uses beyond backup and disaster recovery. You may not even know all of the ways that ShadowProtect Server can help you protect your valuable business data. That's why we've put together a scenario guide that shows several different ways you can use ShadowProtect Server for various problems.

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For example, if you thought ShadowProtect Server was just a tool to help you perform server backup or bare metal recovery, you will be pleasantly surprised. Some of the other use cases include server migration, granular recovery of files and folders, disaster recovery testing and planning, backup verification and backup management.

The scenario guide is posted on our Web site as a PDF. Download it to find out all of the ways that the latest version in the award-winning ShadowProtect line of backup, disaster recovery and migration software can help you protect your data.

Server Backup Review

Submitted by StorageCraft on Tue, 08/03/2010 - 14:53

Redmond Magazine has a new review roundup of several different kinds of backup and disaster recovery products. The review focuses on four solutions for small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) including StorageCraft ShadowProtect Server™. Each software product is designed especially to backup and restore servers.

The reviewer gave ShadowProtect high marks, and pointed out several great features in SP.

Backups in SP are image-based, using the underlying VSS technology in Windows Server and providing very fast backups after the first full backup, as only changed sectors are backed up.

SP is a comprehensive product, offering efficient backups and smoothly blending the physical and virtual worlds for easy disaster recovery.

If you own a small business or are a reseller catering to SMBs, you'll definitely want to look over this review roundup and check out for yourself how ShadowProtect Server can help you keep your customers up and running following a disaster or catastrophic failure.

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HeadStart Restore and Disaster Recovery

Submitted by StorageCraft on Thu, 06/03/2010 - 14:27

Business won't wait while you try to restore your server following a catastrophic failure. Whether it's a natural disaster that took you out or a RAID router meltdown, it doesn't really matter: you have to get access to your data as quickly as possible and you have to get your business running again.

A new feature in the award-winning StorageCraft ShadowProtect line of backup, disaster recovery and system migration software will help you improve your recovery time objective (RTO) - the maximum amount of time your server can be out of commission. HeadStart Restore™ (HSR) allows you to begin the server recovery process right away, before a disaster.

HSR is available in ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise, the newest solution in the ShadowProtect family, and here's how it works. ShadowProtect Server (or ShadowProtect Small Business Server) is taking regular backups of your data; these are snapshots of a point in time on your server. If you want to schedule your backups for every few minutes, you can do that. You can even set the scheduler in ShadowProtect to take incremental backups - just the deltas or small changes to your server - throughout the day.

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