Storage Craft Fast and Reliable Disaster Recovery, Data Protection and System Migration for Windows Servers

1. Fast and Reliable Disaster Recovery, Data Protection
and System Migration for Windows Servers
Maximise Business Continuity and
Minimise Your Recovery Time Objective
with ShadowProtect Server
and ShadowProtect Small Business Server
One of the biggest challenges companies face is how to
maximise business continuity and avoid business disruption
following a server failure. ShadowProtect Server™ and
ShadowProtect Small Business Server™ provide fast and
reliable disaster recovery, data protection and system
migration to get servers online as quickly as possible.
ShadowProtect Server includes bare metal recovery to the
same system, dissimilar hardware or to and from virtual
environments. Protect your entire server environment
The flexible recovery options in ShadowProtect Server
including the operating system, applications like Microsoft™
allow you to improve RTO by reducing the time your
Exchange and SQL, and your data.
systems and data are offline. ShadowProtect allows you to
complete granular recovery of files and folders or full bare
ShadowProtect Server gives you the tools you need to
metal server recovery in a matter of minutes. Hardware
centrally manage your point-in-time backup images and
Independent Restore™ (HIR) technology makes it quick and
restore them in a matter of minutes. The easy-to-use
easy to recover to the same system, to dissimilar hardware
management console allows you to simultaneously push
or to and from virtual environments. ShadowProtect’s HIR
install ShadowProtect to all your Windows servers from a
feature also makes system migration to new servers or
central location and view the backup status of all protected
consolidation to virtual environments a straightforward
Windows servers in your organization. In addition,
process.
ShadowProtect Server provides you with VirtualBoot™
technology — for failover to a virtual server — as well as a
ShadowProtect Server provides the
virtual converter to convert ShadowProtect backup images
into virtual machines. following benefits:
ShadowProtect ImageManager™ allows you to consolidate • Rapid recovery from bare metal, to dissimilar hardware
point-in-time backup images on a daily, weekly and monthly or to and from virtual environments.
basis for simplified management. Automatic verification and • Integrated backup administration from a
re-verification tools ensure your backups are in a known management console.
good state when server recovery is necessary. • ShadowProtect ImageManager to automatically
consolidate backup image files.
• Verification and re-verification of backup images.
• VirtualBoot technology for quick failover to a
ShadowProtect Server
virtual server.
and Your Recovery Time Objective • Converter tool to convert to .VHD or .VMDK.
• Automatic backup of SQL, Exchange and other critical
Your Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the maximum
applications.
amount of time your systems can be out of commission —
• Granular recovery of individual files and folders
from when a disruption occurs to the moment your system
in moments.
is available again. Minimising your RTO helps you avoid the
• Simplified migration to new Windows servers.
consequences of a break in business continuity.
• Scheduler for automatic full and incremental backups.

2. ShadowProtect Server Features
Backup - Fast and reliable disk-based backup Verification - ShadowProtect
that captures full, differential and incremental ImageManager also verifies and re-verifies
point-in-time backup images of your entire backup image chains to ensure that your
system. This includes the operating system, backup images are in a known good state for
applications, configuration settings and data. fast and reliable recovery should a disaster
Schedule full and incremental backups for occur.
automatic protection of everything on your
Windows server.
Notification - Track the status of
backupjobs through the notification tools in
Recovery - ShadowProtect provides rapid ShadowProtect ImageManager. This feature
recovery a number of ways, including full bare allows you to set e-mail configurations so
metal recovery through a bootable recovery you can be notified of backup job success
CD. Also, recover to similar hardware or and failure automatically.
recover to dissimilar or virtual environments
with Hardware Independent Restore (HIR).
Save Time
Minimise the time required to restore your server systems
File and Folder Recovery - Quickly and data. Restore an entire server system with bare metal
browse to specific files and folders in your recovery, migrate to a new system with HIR or quickly
point-in-time backup images to perform browse to specific files and folders to perform granular
granular recovery of your data. recovery of your data.
Save Money
VirtualBoot - Right-click any Get business back up and running in a matter of minutes,
ShadowProtect Server point-in-time backup rather than hours. Every minute lost in recovery is income
image and automatically boot it as a virtual and productivity lost. Minimize recovery time windows and
machine. you maximize profits.
Save Storage Space
Virtual Converter -Take a ShadowProtect ShadowProtect Server allows you to consolidate your
Server point-in-time back image and convert backup images to simplify management and minimise the
it to a .VHD or .VMDK. amount of disk space required for system backups.
For Additional Information
Management Console - ShadowProtect’s For additional information about ShadowProtect Server and
management console allows you to ShadowProtect Small Business Server please visit:
simultaneously push install ShadowProtect
Server to all of your Windows servers. Check www.StorageCraft.co.uk/ShadowProtectServer.html
the status of your system backups and create
groupings for simplified management. www.StorageCraft.co.uk/ShadowProtectSBS.html
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