Security Week August, 2006
This Software Makes Quick Images of Your Linux ServerRating: 5/5
 Over the last decade, the Linux operating system has become one of the top competing operating systems in comparison to the more popular Windows and Macintosh products. We've also seen the rise in the number of home and businesses users that are banking on the ease and reliability of operating in this environment. Ensure the integrity of this system in case of hard drive failure or damage due to malware with the Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Linux software that wins our Editor's Choice Award for functionality and value.
There are several different versions of Linux that are supported by this Acronis software package and they include Red Hat 7.2+, Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1+, Red Hat Enterprise Server 3.0, Mandrake 9.2, Novell's SuSE 8+, Debian, APSLinux 9.2+, Slackware 10, Gentoo, UnitedLinux, TurboLinux 8 &s; 10, Ubuntu 4.10 and Fedora Core 1 through 4. Several different file systems are also supported, e.g. Linux Ext2 & Ext3, XFS, FAT 15 &s; 32, NTFS, ReiserFS and JFS. There are several different reasons that can render a server useless and regardless of the reason, administrators can bank on a quick restore of the system if ongoing and scheduled image backups of the system are performed. The Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Linux software package can save the image to products such as DVD or CD optical drives, tape systems, Iomega's ZIP and JAZZ drive, other hard drives and network attached storage while support all levels of RAID an SCSI controllers. While most users will want to use this package to perform a full and complete image capture of the system's boot and attached drives, which is the main selling point behind the software, it can be used to carry out differential and incremental backups as well. The package's Active Restore feature allows users to reboot from a previously saved image. Although it can be tedious, file based backups can also be performed. Backups of file data can be saved in a compressed and non-compressed mode. The type of media used to save and restore a hard drive image will dictate the speed of the process. Network-based backups will also be dependent on the type of environment used and will be quite a bit faster with a gigabyte network. Additionally, network attached storage backups using FireWire or eSATA interfaces will complete much sooner over a USB based product. When we restored an image in our lab, we receive a 100% accuracy rate writing the image back on the drive. True Image 9.1 Server for Linux is a solid and safe way to insure the integrity of your Linux server and can be purchased directly from Acronis for $699 or for $399 when upgraded from the previous version. There is detailed information on this product and others on the company's web site, which is located at www.acronis.eu. Summary: Keep an image of your Linux server handy with this package that receives our Editor's Choice Award for functionality and value
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