Disk imaging’s advantage over tape in Windows Server backups cannot be underestimated when it comes to creating bullet-proof recoveries. For instance, taking disk image snapshots from a production server requires no break in productivity because the machine never has to be taken offline. It’s a highly affordable alternative to true continuous data protection technologies that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Moreover it meets rapid recovery time objectives that are simply impossible with legacy software without spending more money and hiring more staff.
The ideal integrated physical or VMware server backup and recovery solution will offer huge flexibility for setting up backups across any and all locations. And it features a one-pass backup for both data and system level recoveries to cut in half the amount of administrative effort recovered when you run parallel backup schemes. If a machine fails, an image-based solution recovers the operating system. If a file is lost, you can recover it as easily as you look for and call up a file on a local disk.
But disk imaging for your VMware server backup is not the <em>only </em>thing you need. If you can automate the process of backups and managing them all centrally, you’ll reduce your administrative load tremendously. It’s not uncommon to see a single IT person and perhaps a part-time administrator holding down the fort at an organization that has dozens of servers, that is, <em>when</em> the backup system is automated. In a tape environment, that’s impossible.
But Windows Server backups by themselves mean nothing. The ‘proof of the pudding’ is whether you can recover, and then, how fast. This is where the advantages of disk image-based backups really shine, because they give you more recovery options and they definitely have an immense speed advantage.
When it comes time to recover, all that you prepared before will begin to pay off, whether you’re recovering locally, at a remote location, or even in the cloud. Companies often purchase a disk image-based system to carry out server backups and restores. Ideally it will do more, including simplifying the ongoing tasks of server upgrades. Consider the plight of a Midwestern wire and metal products manufacturer who needs to periodically upgrade its physical servers to virtual platforms. It wants to avoid the long transitions required to configure a new virtual system– operating system, applications and settings – before the data itself can be loaded and the new machine cut in to the production environment.
Value of integrated migration and data protection. The manufacturer choses a Windows server backup and recovery product that operates across both physical and virtual platforms, and which also accelerates migrations between them. Because it is imaging-based, it can complete the transitions in an average of 15 minutes or less, and once the health of the new virtual machine is confirmed, the physical machine can be put aside or repurposed. And from then on, the same software will continue to back up and protect the new systems, without a loss of business continuity. It’s just another advantage of disk imaging-based system.
To learn more about backup, replication and recovery, VMware backup, Windows server backup, go to [http://www.appassure.com/server-backup-and-replication/] or download AppAssure’s Backup & Replication software today with a free trial download [http://go.appassure.com/free-trial].
The ideal integrated physical or VMware server backup and recovery solution will offer huge flexibility for setting up backups across any and all locations. And it features a one-pass backup for both data and system level recoveries to cut in half the amount of administrative effort recovered when you run parallel backup schemes. If a machine fails, an image-based solution recovers the operating system. If a file is lost, you can recover it as easily as you look for and call up a file on a local disk.
But disk imaging for your VMware server backup is not the <em>only </em>thing you need. If you can automate the process of backups and managing them all centrally, you’ll reduce your administrative load tremendously. It’s not uncommon to see a single IT person and perhaps a part-time administrator holding down the fort at an organization that has dozens of servers, that is, <em>when</em> the backup system is automated. In a tape environment, that’s impossible.
But Windows Server backups by themselves mean nothing. The ‘proof of the pudding’ is whether you can recover, and then, how fast. This is where the advantages of disk image-based backups really shine, because they give you more recovery options and they definitely have an immense speed advantage.
When it comes time to recover, all that you prepared before will begin to pay off, whether you’re recovering locally, at a remote location, or even in the cloud. Companies often purchase a disk image-based system to carry out server backups and restores. Ideally it will do more, including simplifying the ongoing tasks of server upgrades. Consider the plight of a Midwestern wire and metal products manufacturer who needs to periodically upgrade its physical servers to virtual platforms. It wants to avoid the long transitions required to configure a new virtual system– operating system, applications and settings – before the data itself can be loaded and the new machine cut in to the production environment.
Value of integrated migration and data protection. The manufacturer choses a Windows server backup and recovery product that operates across both physical and virtual platforms, and which also accelerates migrations between them. Because it is imaging-based, it can complete the transitions in an average of 15 minutes or less, and once the health of the new virtual machine is confirmed, the physical machine can be put aside or repurposed. And from then on, the same software will continue to back up and protect the new systems, without a loss of business continuity. It’s just another advantage of disk imaging-based system.
To learn more about backup, replication and recovery, VMware backup, Windows server backup, go to [http://www.appassure.com/server-backup-and-replication/] or download AppAssure’s Backup & Replication software today with a free trial download [http://go.appassure.com/free-trial].
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