Why Buy Image-based Disaster Recovery?

IMAGE-BASED DISASTER RECOVERY FOR SMALLER ENVIRONMENTS

UltraBac is a simple, fast disaster recovery solution for the single-server or small network environment. It fills the smaller user's requirements:

  • No need for an experienced system administrator
  • Extremely easy to set up and use
  • Minimum downtime on critical networks
  • Image compression reduces media space required

IMAGE-BASED DISASTER RECOVERY FOR LARGER ENVIRONMENTS

UltraBac's disaster recovery features are even more important for large distributed systems and NT server farms:

  • Ease of deployment: FTP rollout, then software installation and backup scheduling done remotely with a custom MSI script
  • Central console: Manage multiple jobs from one location
  • Flexibility: Knowledgeable system administrator can make use of many options
  • Simple local or remote restore process: Uses single floppy, CD, PXE (network card boot), or OBDR
  • Store image and restore using live network disk path
  • Locked file driver: Ensures file integrity

WHAT IS THE ADVANTAGE OF ULTRABAC IMAGE-BASED DISASTER RECOVERY OVER GHOST?

The ability to do image-based backups and restores of live operating systems over live networks.


WHAT IS IMAGE-BASED DISASTER RECOVERY?

UltraBac's disaster recovery technology (UB-DR) is based on scheduled snapshots of one or more disk partitions. The snapshot is an exact mirror image of the partition -- frozen in time -- which allows a good backup even for files that are currently open. This technology guarantees restoring a failed machine in absolute minimum time and effort. Image technology is most often used for protecting operating system partitions. UB-DR can operate stand alone or compliment UltraBac's standard file-by-file backup capability.

Image technology is fast because it does direct reads on a disk, bypassing the file system and minimizing overhead. Yet it still is able to skip non-used blocks on the disk and use software compression technology to reduce storage space used.

Images can be saved to either local or remote tape devices or to any network UNC path. You can protect EVERY server in your network, with or without a tape drive. If a protected machine fails, you can boot it from a single network aware DOS floppy. Recovery can be fully scripted for user environments without on-site technical staff, or can be run interactively by an administrator for optimal flexibility. Restore a 2GB system partition in as little as 10 minutes!

UB-DR is a form of operating system insurance, protecting users against the worst case scenario -- a failure where the machine won't even boot. Image technology makes restoring a system a snap, whether the failure is due to registry corruption, accidental file deletions, and/or file corruption. Just boot from a single floppy. No other operator intervention is required.

Ensure the safety and integrity of your data with a total solution that combines UltraBac's comprehensive backup software with UltraBac Image-based Disaster Recovery.