Drive Backup 8.0 server edition

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This is not your grandma's old backup utility. We sell DriveBackup SE to many satisfied network administrators. They use it to backup their server in regard to disaster recovery. Your garden variety Windows backup does a good job preventing you from losing documents and other files. But if a server dies there is more to it. All the users, all the rights, all the support programs have to be reentered before the user data can be restored. That process can take days. The good news is that Drive backup can get you back in business within hours. It is available in 3 versions and unless you use it on a server you can buy it for under $100.00

Drive Backup is ideal for systems that are in use 24 hours. There is no need to take the web server off-line. You do not need to stop the mail server. DriveBackup creates an image while the system is running.. Using Drive BackupProfessional you can write elaborate scripts and minimize downtime or you can get Drive Backup 7.0 Server Edition. It can backup entire drives even while they are in use.

Drive Backup reduces risks of data damage or loss, system crash or downtime, saving precious time, efforts and costs. It provides you with a wide range of basic and advanced backup and restore functions, features and abilities required to manage server-based networks. Drive Backup Server Edition is a substantially different product.

It allows you to create exact disk images for complete backup and protects your system and corporate data in any disaster case. Drive Backup provides you with the most comprehensive and cost effective backup, restore and recovery capabilities for servers and workstations. A new intuitive and convenient interface simplifies management of backup procedures offering greater flexibility to IT professionals and system administrators.

When the day comes and you need to restore your system Drive backup takes it all the way from bare metal to a full restore. There is no need to load your operating system. You don't need to format the new drive. Simply boot with the DriveBackup recovery CD and restore the drives or partitions.

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What our tester has to say...

This is software that can save your life or as least your job. It is built for the professional IT person and can backup a server in a fortune 500 company or your advanced home system you spent so many hours building. It's a bare metal solution. That means you can start from scratch and you will be ready to go once the restore completed. The program can also be used to clone hard drives. For an extra safety measure DriveBackup can create backup capsules not assessable by an operating system. I recommend it to any and every system admin or to advanced users that have a lot to loose if their system goes down.

The download demo is not a fully functioning program. it only lets you "play" with the features but you can't apply them = you can't backup any data.

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What the vendor has to say...

Real-time server disk backup: Backup your Windows Server without interrupting its activity. Save backup archives to local or network drive or make them bootable and burn directly to CDs/DVDs for safe and reliable restoration in case of unbootable system. More info...

Backup Capsule: a unique feature of Drive Backup Server providing you with the most secure place for keeping your backup image on your hard drive, preventing accidental deletion or unwanted access to it. More info...

Dynamic disks support: work with full range dynamic volumes (simple, spanned, stripped, mirrored, RAID-5).

Quick restore at any time: performing entire system restore, a bare-metal server restore from bootable archives or just restore of necessary materials.

Built-in Scheduler along with Script Generator and more..

• Backup/Restore Features :

  • Backup/Restore an entire hard disk
    
  • Copy/clone hard disk
    
  • Backup/Restore a separate partition (primary, extended, logical)
    
  • Backup/Restore the first track of a hard disk
    
  • Backup/Restore the MBR
    
  • Backup/Restore a combination of disks, partitions etc to/from one archive
    
  • Dynamic disks backup: full range of dynamic volumes is supported
    
  • Restore a separate partition from a backup image of the whole hard disk
    
  • Restore separate files and folders from backup archives
    
  • Save backup archives to local/network drives
    
  • Burn a backup archive to CD/DVDs (or write them to ISO-image files for later burning)
    
  • Set archive names and add comments
    
  • Interrupt backup operations if necessary

  
  Advanced Backup/Restore Features :

  • Hot Backup of locked partitions
    
  • Reboot to the Windows Blue Screen Module (Windows NT/2000/XP) or to the DOS Module (Windows 9x) when backing up locked partitions (if Hot Backup is disabled)
    
  • Backup/Restore to/from the Backup Capsule
    
  • Bare metal restore
    
  • Create bootable archives on CD/DVDs
    
  • Save backup archives to physical partitions (without drive letters assigned)
    
  • Resize while restoring partitions
    
  • Generate scripts
    
  • Verify data when writing

  
  Backup Settings:

  • Disable/Enable Hot Backup (always or only when a partition is locked)
    
  • Process all sectors one by one or do not process unused sectors
    
  • Skip auxiliary files (pagefile.sys, hyberfil.sys)
    
  • Control archive integrity
    
  • Compress backup images (No/Fast/Normal/Best)
    
  • Encrypt and protect backup images by password
    
  • Split backup images (set split size)
    
  • Set burning speed (Maximum/Medium/Minimum/Automatic selection)
    
  • Set image file names automatically

  
  Scheduling Features:

  • Set types of scheduling (Once/At system startup/At logon/Daily/Weekly/Monthly)
    
  • Set a date and time of starting scheduled backup
    
  • Manage scheduled tasks by Tasks Editor

  
  User Interface Features:

  • Flexible and adjustable launcher interface
    
  • Wizards for all operations
    
  • Embedded HTML browser with navigation through toolbars and menus
    
  • Multiple means of control and navigation (pull-down menus, user-defined menus, toolbars, active icons, bookmarks)
    Contextual operations
    
  • Display hard disk configuration in graphic form
    
  • Display partition types, file systems, total size, size of used and free space
    
  • Display estimated archive size
    
  • Display operation progress in graphic form and step by step
    
  • Display archive information

  
  Supplementary Tools:

  • NetBurner: to use remote CD/DVD-ROM for burning backup images to CDs/DVDs
    
  • Image Explorer: to browse backup images, view and extract files and folders from them
    
  • Recovery Media Builder: a tool to build "recovery media" to boot from in case of unbootable system
    
  • Professional Recovery CD: a powerful tool to give access to all functions of Drive Backup in case of unbootable system

  
  Partitioning Features:

  • Create partition
    
  • Format partition
    
  • Delete partition
    
  • Remote burning to CD/DVD
    
  • Compatibility Features :

   

• SCSI, P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA (SATA), IEEE 1394 (FireWire), USB 1.x & 2.0
  

• Supports large hard disks (up to 500GB tested, 2TB in theory)
  

• Supports long filenames (FAT, NTFS) and filenames in national languages
  

• NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1); FAT16/FAT32; Ext2FS/Ext3FS; Linux Swap
  

• Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP, Windows NT/2000/2003 Server, Windows PE