Enterprise Week August, 2006
We Achieved a 100-percent Accuracy Rate with Software, This Can Save You Time & Money!Rating: 5/5
 Let's hope that you never have to experience the loss of a hard drive due to mechanical failure. If you have, then you know the process of procuring a new drive and rebuilding the old drive's structure. Having an image of that drive can save computer owners quite a bit of time in restoring the application and data structure. If you own a Linux-based system, then check out Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Linux that wins our Editor's Choice Award for reliability and speed.
Situations other than equipment failure can dictate the need to restore a hard drive to a previous condition including viruses and sector errors. It takes quite a bit of time to reload an operating system, applications and settings necessary to bring the system back up to par. Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Linux can back up your system through different methods that include a hard drive image, incremental, differential and file-based backups. The optional Acronis Active Restore feature allows you to reboot the computer from a previously saved image. The software also allows you to save the information using data compression if necessary. A backup or image can be stored on a wide variety of equipment and media. Supporting all levels of IDE, SCSI and RAID controllers, owners can use DVD or CD disc media in addition to Iomega's ZIP or JAZZ drivers, networked hard drivers and network attached storage devices. Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Linux will automatically use multiple discs or Iomega media if necessary to store data. Outside storage facilities are becoming more and more popular; hard drive network backup is a feature especially in demand among PC users. Acronis True Image can execute the operation in minutes. This software product from Acronis can be run on several different versions of Linux. Supported operating systems include Fedora Core 1&2, Red Hat 9, Red Hat Advanced Server 3.0, Novell's SuSE 9 and Mandrake 9.2. Acronis reports that they are working on versions that will work with other Linux products. Acronis True Image 9.1 works with a wide variety of files systems such as Linux SWAP, Linux Ext2&Ext3, NTFS, XFS, JFS, ReiserFR, FAT16 and FAT32. The time it takes to backup, image and restore is will depends on the type of media being used, optical drive speed, hard drive spindle rates and in case of network backup, the network's Ethernet throughput. When we tested the software in our lab, we backed up a 7200-RPM SATA2 hard drive to a 100Mbps NAS drive with a rate of 2.1-gigabytes per minute. When restoring this backup on the drive, we achieved a 100-percent accuracy rate with the software. Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Linux can be ordered directly from the company and carries a price of $699 for the package or $399 if upgrading from a previous version of the software. More information, customer testimonials and technical specifications can be found on their web site located at www.acronis.co.uk. Summarize: Make an accurate image of a Linux-based hard drive with this software that receives our Editor's Choice Award for reliability and speed.
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